The party in Northern Ireland has been remarkably silent – all the more surprising given the Greens’ usually vocal stance on other issues. The Green Party in Northern Ireland has about 800 members, approximately a fifth of the total membership on the island. About two-thirds of the Greens’ membership in the Republic have registered to vote on coalition, but just 195 Northern members have registered. He could not comment, he said, on how the rest of the Northern membership might vote. Accepting the programme for government would put the Northern Greens firmly on one side of that constitutional argument, argues Mr Feeney.

Source: The Irish Times June 18, 2020 16:25 UTC