SDLP Youth


The Social Democratic and Labour Party Youth is the youth wing of the social democratic & Irish nationalist political party, the Social Democratic and Labour Party. Membership of the organisation is entitled to SDLP party members of the age 30 and under. It is organised throughout Northern Ireland and plays an active role within the SDLP at all levels of the organisation.

Executive

SDLP Youth is organised at a national level by the Youth Executive. The Youth Executive is responsible for the day-to-day running of SDLP Youth. It consists of 7 Officers elected at the annual Youth Conference, usually held in the spring.
The current Officers of the Youth Executive elected in January 2020 are:
Executive PositionOfficerConstituency
ChairCllr. Adam GannonFermanagh and South Tyrone
Vice-Chair/CampaignsAlly HaydockLagan Valley
Secretary/Public Relations OfficerJack PattonFermanagh and South Tyrone
TreasurerBrónach CrabtreeFoyle
Equality OfficerOisín DonnellyWest Tyrone
Membership and Recruitment OfficerPaul McErleanMid Ulster
Policy OfficerDarragh O'ReillyFermanagh and South Tyrone

International

The SDLP Youth are full members of the Young European Socialists, formerly the European Community Organisation of Socialist Youth, having been admitted at the 1994 conference in Munich. At this 1994 conference future SDLP MLA for South Belfast Conall McDevitt was elected as an ECOSY vice-president after being elected the National Secretary of Labour Youth in 1993.
In 2016 the SDLP Youth and YES held a joint seminar in Belfast on "far-right extremism and Brexit" which was attended by young socialist activists from across Europe.
The SDLP Youth are also observer members of International Union of Socialist Youth.