All-Ireland Green Party ‘a real alternative to tribal politics’

MOVES to form an all-Ireland Green Party will offer voters in the North an alternative to tribal politics, it was claimed yesterday.

All-Ireland Green Party ‘a real alternative to tribal politics’

John Barry, the party's co-leader north of the border, said the plans, endorsed at a conference in Co Tyrone last weekend, would also see Greens in Ireland strengthen their links with sister parties in Scotland, England and Wales. Under the plan, the Northern Ireland Greens have invited the Republic's party to organise in the province's 18 Westminster constituencies.

The Green Party-Comhaontas Glas, led by Trevor Sargent, has six members of the Dáil.

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