{"id":391724,"date":"2026-04-10T14:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391724\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T14:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:43:12","slug":"green-leader-in-northern-ireland-joins-campaign-trail-for-holyrood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391724\/","title":{"rendered":"Green leader in Northern Ireland joins campaign trail for Holyrood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of the Greens in Northern Ireland has travelled to Scotland to join campaigning for the Holyrood election.<\/p>\n<p>With less than four weeks to go until voters go to the polls, Mal O\u2019Hara teamed up with Ross Greer, co-leader of the Scottish Greens.<\/p>\n<p>Mr O\u2019Hara said he was \u201cdelighted\u201d to join Scottish Green activities across Edinburgh and Glasgow over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The politician, who travelled to Scotland with a number of Green councillors from Northern Ireland, added: \u201cAcross the UK, Green parties are surging. Record polling and record memberships because we are offering a clear message of hope which is clearly resonating with people.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775827513013_1.jpg--.jpg\" width=\"640\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether in Belfast, Dublin, Cardiff, London, Edinburgh or Glasgow \u2013 only the Greens represent that ambitious vision and our interconnected relationships on these islands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that while the Scottish Greens and Northern Irish Greens are \u201cdistinct\u201d parties, the organisations are \u201cunited by shared values and priorities\u201d \u2013 including \u201clowering bills, facing down the far-right, fighting the climate crisis and ending inequality\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Greer said it was \u201cgreat to have Mal and his team join us in Scotland this weekend\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cI am proud to be part of a movement that is growing across these islands and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMal\u2019s leadership has been crucial to growing the Green Party in Northern Ireland. We are keen to learn from that and work with him to deliver record Green results across our nations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to campaigning with Mal and to returning the favour next year by heading to Northern Ireland to help them to secure a record result in the next Stormont elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The leader of the Greens in Northern Ireland has travelled to Scotland to join campaigning for the Holyrood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4644,132669,173570,61,60,173571,43,2443,1650,173572,9036,173573],"class_list":{"0":"post-391724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-elections","9":"tag-greens","10":"tag-holyrood-election","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-mal-ohara","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-ross-greer","18":"tag-scotland","19":"tag-scottish-greens"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}