SDLP Chairman of Down District Council, Councillor Colin McGrath has met with the chairman of the Eastern Health and Social Services Board to discuss a range of important Health issues relating to the Down District area.

SDLP M.L.A for South Down, Margaret Ritchie and Chairman of Down District Council, Councillor Colin McGrath have condemned a spate of gorse fires in the County town of Downpatrick this weekend.

SDLP Chairman of Down District Council, Councillor Colin McGrath looks forward to his year in office as the districts first citizen.

SDLP Vice-Chairman of Down District Council, Councillor Colin McGrath has welcomed the announcement made by Social Development Minister Margaret Ritchie, to establish a taskforce to examine fuel poverty and the effects it is having on the most vulnerable people of the North.

SDLP Vice-Chairman of Down District Council, Councillor Colin McGrath has welcomed a document from Council which details its unhappiness at the proposed cuts to Post Office provision in Down District.

SDLP Vice-Chairman of Down District Council, Councillor Colin McGrath has called on authorities to upgrade the path from Killough’s Seaview housing estate into its play park

SDLP Vice-Chairman of Down District Council, Councillor Colin McGrath has joined with Branch member Barry Magee to call for play facilities on the towns Saul Rd.

SDLP Vice-Chairman of Down District Council, Cllr. Colin McGrath, has welcomed the launch of a new initiative for older people in Downpatrick - the 'Handy Van'.

SDLP Vice Chairman of Down District Council, Councillor Colin McGrath, has called on the Recreation department to produce a report detailing how they deal with cleanliness at district sports fields.

SDLP Vice Chairman of Down District Council, Councillor Colin McGrath, has branded the outcome of a recent Environmental Health test purchase initiative which tests whether or not local businesses will sell cigarettes to under-16s as embarrassing.

SDLP Down Council Group Education Spokesperson, Councillor Colin McGrath, has called on the Department of Education to review its decision to cut funding for wrap-around education services.

The SDLP team in Downpatrick held a public meeting recently to update residents of the Saul Road of the work they have undertaken to represent them in local planning matters.

SDLP Vice-Chairman, Councillor Colin McGrath has called for more thought to be given to the sale of syringe shaped drinks targeted at children

SDLP Vice Chairman of Down District Council, Colin McGrath, has reacted with anger at the Ulster Unionist Chair of Council’s suggestion that he would be glad to see a Nuclear Power Plant at St John’s Point near Killough

SDLP South Down MP, Eddie McGrady and MLA, Margaret Ritchie have joined with Down District Councillors, Colin McGrath and Dermot Curran, to call for a detailed response to the anti-social behaviour the residents of Ballykinlar have been suffering in silence with for many months

Members of the SDLP Down team – Mr E McGrady, M.P., Vice Chairman of Council, Cllr. Colin McGrath and Down Cllrs. Doris, Toman, O’Neill and Curran met with INTO Union leader Mr Frank Bunting to discuss educational matters recently.

SDLP Vice-Chairman of Down District Council, Councillor Colin McGrath has welcomed today’s meeting of the charity Chest Heart & Stroke and the Minister of health on the importance of immediate Stroke care.