This leaves the SDLP overly dependent on the personalities of its founding generation. SDLP literature places a large emphasis on Hume and of its role in the peace, but has much less to say about ...

Austin Currie, one of the founding members of the SDLP, has passed away at the age of 82, his family has announced. Mr Currie played a leading role in the civil rights movement in the 1960s and ...

SDLP co-founder Austin Currie has been remembered by his family as a "guiding star who put the principles of peace, social justice and equality first". The Tyrone-born politician and civil rights ...

Family 'heartbroken' as Austin Currie, SDLP founding member and former TD, dies aged 82. SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said Mr Currie was a 'titan' of the civil rights movement. irishmirror.

Of the SDLP’s six founding members – Ivan Cooper, Paddy Devlin, Paddy O’Hanlon, John Hume, Gerry Fitt and Austin Currie – only the latter is still alive.

Despite the harsh words down the years he joined Hume and the other founding SDLP members Austin Currie, Ivan Cooper and Paddy O'Hanlon later in a bar near the cemetery, where others left them to ...

Founding member of the SDLP Paddy O’Hanlon has died aged 65, the party has announced. Mr O'Hanlon passed away in Dublin's Mater Hospital following a short illness.

THE Drogheda-born founding member of the SDLP party Paddy O'Hanlon has been remembered by friends and colleagues as playing an 'inspirational role' in the civil rights movement.

SDLP holds annual party conference at St Columb's Hall in Londonderry Leader Colum Eastwood uses speech to say DUP should return to Stormont or "get out of the way" He says party is "here to stay ...

One of the founding members of the SDLP, Paddy O'Hanlon, has died following a short illness. He was 65 years old. He studied in UCD before becoming a leading member of Northern Ireland's Civil ...

The SDLP leader says when he compares the talent in his own party to that in others “there is simply no match”. “It’s premier league versus Sunday league,” says Colum Eastwood.