Talk:Labour Party of Northern Ireland

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Labour Party of NI and Labour '87 were two different groupings whereas the article originally suggested that they were the same. LPNI was one of several groups that merged to create Labour 87 so maybe a second article is needed?

Different groups with the same name

The party calling itself Labour Party of NI was subsumed into Labour 87 in 1987 and ceased to exist as a seperate entity then. The candidate who ran in the 1994 European elections was Independent Labour not LPNI (and indeed for that election Paddy Devlin who was the founder of LPNI chose to back a different candidate than the Labour candidate which would be strange if it was the same party as before!) The party that contested the 1996 forum elections was different from the by that time defunct LPNI and was formed not long before the 1996 forum elections. The group now led by Malachi Curran apppears to be the successor to the 1996 coalition.

Anyone feel brave enough to tie this in with Labour - Federation of Labour Groups? Timrollpickering 00:41, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]