Karl Duncan

01/01/2026

New Years Eve - Upstairs, Sandinos. 🎊

10/11/2025

🇮🇪 President Higgins has served Ireland well. His example, one of compassion, of grace, and of moral courage will be remembered and reenacted for many years to come.

07/11/2025

🏡 Meenan Square Transformation 🙌🏻

Pretty incredible to see the £11M Meenan Square regeneration taking shape in the Bogside, with planning approval granted by council. 🔨

An area that is so frequently overlooked by the powers that be in Stormont, finally getting the attention it deserves. The rest of the Bogside / Brandywell area should be the same!

Hopefully the housing that is crucial to the development will be approved next, and we can look forward to a bright new future for the community and for the whole of the Bogside. 🙏🏻

Mark H Durkan

30/10/2025

01/10/2025

Pretty incredible to meet Former President Mary McAleese tonight in Dublin and to talk with her about Irish Unity in our lifetime 👏🏻🕊️

We will achieve Irish Unity in this generation, and I’m even more confident in that fact after hearing President McAleese’s respectful and ambitious insights about the kind of New Ireland we can build together.

“Work together in common love for Ireland upon the sure foundations of mutual justice and respect.”

21/09/2025

⭕️ Proud to march yesterday with those from across our island who cherish our national language. Over 25,000 people in Baile Átha Cliath for CEARTA! 👏🏻

Great to see many faces from Doire there, as well as my friend Cllr. Luke Corkery and Labour Senator Nessa Cosgrove 🗣️

Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam! ⭕️

31/08/2025

Spending some time walking around the beaut place we get to call home. 🌳❤️

14/08/2025

🐂 PCSP Vice-Chair Karl Duncan was delighted to visit St Mary’s Youth Club in Creggan today to see the incredible willow bull sculpture that will be the centrepiece of this year's Lúnasa celebration, part of Féile Derry.

Thanks to support from Derry & Strabane PCSP, young people from the area have been able to create this amazing willow sculpture under the expert guidance of artist Brendan Farren.

Tomorrow night, the final touches will be added before the bull takes part in the Lúnasa parade, bringing hundreds of people together at dusk. The procession starts at St Mary's Youth Club and ends at Greenwalk, where the community will witness a dramatic retelling of The Cattle Raid of Cooley, culminating in a spectacular fire finale🔥

Well done to all who have been involved in this fantastic project - we hope everyone enjoys the spectacle tomorrow night!

29/07/2025

Derry Bike Scheme?
👓The Mark Patterson Show👓
[13.10]

Would it work here?

Most places you go to on holidays these days have fleets and racks of bikes and e-bikes for hire. But not here. This is a proposal from SDLP Councillor Catherine McDaid that the Council write to the Department for Infrastructure to express interest in the development of a “Derry Bikes” initiative. The motion states:

“This Council welcomes the success of the North-West Greenway Network ... [also] recognises the success of public hire bike schemes across these islands and further notes the £500,000 awarded to Belfast City Council by DfI this year to expand the ‘Belfast Bikes’ scheme including the purchase of e-bikes ... [and notes] our interest in developing a Derry Bikes scheme to maximise the impact of active travel in the city and provide people with a cost effective means of accessing the greenway network.”

Would it work? Would people use it? Is Derry too small? Too hilly? The greenways are cracker right. Would it have to be e-bikes? And what about vandalism? ... I'm sure tourists would be interested.

A panel discussion today at 1310 on MPS. (pic is Leeds)

28/07/2025

Out for a stout or two 🙂‍↕️

Sandinos Bar/Club

25/07/2025

☀️Derry SDLP Summer Barbecue👏🏻

Last week we came together in Strathfoyle to have a bit of craic as a team, to celebrate the summer, and to give our elected reps and members a chance to catch up over burgers, hot dogs, and even burritos! 🌯

While they’re still working hard every day, we’re also coming up with new ways to change our city and district for good and to help make your life better.

Join us today. For a New North and a New Ireland: https://www.sdlp.ie/join_the_team

13/07/2025

Back home in Derry! 🌍

All in time to enjoy the good weather.