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New study Wolfe Tone: Irish Jacobin to be launched in Derry

Alfie Dallas has urged MLAs to reinstate adequate rate support for poorer councils like Derry whose ratepayers experience much higher poundages than elsewhere in the North.

Derry rates poundage 37.9% higher as support grant for poorer councils decimated

John Kelly’s name will be writ ‘brave and bold’ in Derry’s ‘true history’

The late Derek Kidd who was shot dead by republican gunmen in 1976.

Derek Kidd's family say he is ‘forever missed’ on 50th anniversary of murder

Nealo & Paul McGonagle.

Derry man Paul McGonagle's Bunker Studio nominated for Best Music Video Award

Dana

Dana backs save St Columba’s campaign as Paul Givan visits Newbuildings school

Clare McLaughlin, Derry Credit Union, welcoming some of the members to Monday night's AGM at St. Mary's College. : .

IN PICTURES: Derry Credit Union toasts ‘enormous success’ at 66th AGM

Michael Gallagher, chief economist at Derry City & Strabane District Council, addressing the Stormont Economy Committee.

Intervention urged to avert situation where Derry becomes ‘city in decline’

The new Chief Executive Officer of Derry Credit Union, Mr. Kevin McCauley (front centre) pictured at Monday's AGM, with front from left, Kerri Pyne, Delma Boggs, President, DCU, Brendan Jenkins, President, ILGU and Geraldine O'Doherty. Back from left, Sean Quigley, Sinead Bell, Sharon Doherty, Karen Doran, Clare McLaughlin, Owen McGeehan and Ciaran McCormick. (Photos: Jim McCafferty Photography)

Derry Credit Union celebrates as £2.4m is delivered back into the community

Pictured (L-R) are Gráinne Moody, Director of Food and Drink, Invest NI, John McDaid, Managing Director, U-Bake and Aeidin McCarter, Head of Regional Business for the North West region, Invest NI.

Famed baker McDaid’s investing £1.6m and creating 15 new jobs in Derry

Foyle Hospice staff are getting ready for the upcoming Christmas Day Swim at Ludden Beach, Buncrana.

Foyle Hospice Christmas Day Swim

Damien Doherty

Rally called after ‘sickening’ racist attacks on migrant workers in Derry

Group pictured celebrating the Launch of The Growth Project at The Vale Centre Greysteel.

€6.28 million cross-border GROWTH Project officially launched

Local celebrity Mickey Doherty with Marian, and from right, Gabrielle and Vivienne pictured at the HURT the style edit fashion fest 2026 held in the Waterfoot Hotel. (Photo - Deirdre Heaney, nwpresspics)

In photos: HURT Fashion Festival in Derry's Waterfoot Hotel

Una Deery presenting a cheque for £5,000, to staff of WHSCT CICUD, Altnagelvin Hospital. The money was raised from the proceeds of a Coffee Morning and Afternoon Tea. On the left, Martha McColgan, and from right, Alison Wray and Mary McGroarty. Back, from left, are Sr. Tonie Jones, Stephanie Keenan, Aaron O’Rourke, Roisin Daly, Sr. Gail Quigley and Shauna Hulme. (Photo - Tom Heaney, nwpresspics)

'Altnagelvin saved my life' Una Deery raises £5,000 for ICU staff

John Kelly, whose 17-year-old brother, Michael, was shot dead on Bloody Sunday, pictured at the Bloody Sunday Memorial in the Bogside.

John Kelly was a ‘giant of justice’ who embodied Derry’s ‘spirit of resistance’
John Kelly was a ‘giant of justice’ whose ‘indomitable spirit was that of resistance’ MLAs were told as tributes were read into the Stormont record on Tuesday.
Kevin Mullan

The North West Migrants Forum report that in one incident a man was chased along Bond Street before being set upon and beaten.

Health care worker suffers suspected broken leg in racist attack: NWMF

Ballymastocker Bay.

Lonely Planet names Ballymastocker Bay at Portsalon among Europe’s top 100

PSNI and FDST cooking class.

Derry police initiative helps empower people with Down syndrome

IHCP Pauline Shepherd

IHCP Pauline Shepherd blasts appalling racist attacks in Derry’s Waterside

NWCC staff.

Derry Cancer Centre proudly celebrates its 10th anniversary

Emerald Urgent Care kicks off partnership with City of Derry Rugby Club.

Emerald Urgent Care backs City of Derry Rugby Club in new partnership

An image extracted from a video which can be viewed in full at the event on Wednesday. These are not design proposals yet and the public are being consulted as part of a 3 stage consultation process that will inform the design; this is the second stage.

Public to have say on emerging vision for £45m Central Riverfront project

The Mayor paid tribute to John Kelly and announced a Book of Condolence in his memory.

Mayor pays tribute to John Kelly and announces Book of Condolence

The St. Columba's PS school community pictured with local MLAs at Stormont on Monday.

Politicians unite behind St. Columba’s PS as save the school petition handed in

Danielle pictured celebrating her birthday with all her friends and family.

98 brilliant pictures from parties and celebrations back in November 2006

John Kelly after receiving the findings of the Saville inquiry at the Guildhall in 2010. PHOTO ARTHUR ALLISON/PACEMAKER PRESS

John Kelly RIP: A quiet determination that changed the course of history
There are people whose quiet determination changes the course of history.
Don Mullan

A tribute has been laid in memory of John Kelly at the Bloody Sunday monument in the Bogside where he spoke so eloquently over the years of the need for justice for his brother Michael and the other men and boys murdered in Derry on January 30, 1972.

Tribute to John Kelly laid at Bloody Sunday monument

Baby Nylah Gilmour Arbuckle in a Derry City babygrow on her birthday.

Perfect timing as Derry City fan's daughter is born on day of FAI Cup triumph

Derry City fans arriving at the Moviebowl to watch the FAI Cup final against Waterford. (Photo - Tom Heaney, nwpresspics)

46 brilliant photos of Derry City fans at the Moviebowl for FAI Cup Final

MLA Mark H. Durkan with a bag of dumped letters.

Derry mail dump scandal deepens as more discarded letters found

Santa pictured at Amelia Court in Steelstown during a previous Christmas lights display by residents. Photo: George Sweeney

Amelia Court set to shine brighter than ever this Christmas

Mayor of Derry City and Strabane District Council, Councillor Grace U Niallais, with Ashling Ramsey from Willow Studios and some of her products.

Guildhall Craft Fair returns to Derry with handmade gifts and artisan food

Dolores at her daughter Emer's wedding just four months before she passed away.

Dolores remembered as family welcome new drug for rare hypertension illness

Thirty priests walked in procession from Carnhill Primary School for the celebratory Mass. They were preceded by lay parishioners who carried a banner portraying St. Brigid.

50 years since Carnhill community was established with St. Brigid’s dedication

Oil painting on canvas, Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry (1730-1803) by Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun (Paris 1755 ? Paris 1842), signed and dated L. E. Vigee le Brun 1790. A three-quarter-length portrait of a man, turned to the right, gazing at the spectator, seated in a red upholstered chair on a balcony, his left hand resting on a balustrade, his right on his knee, wearing black clerical dress; a column left. The artist painted Lord Bristol twice, once in Rome in 1789 and this one in Naples which includes a view of Vesuvius on the far right, that Mme Vigee Le Brun claimed that he climbed every day.

Ken McCormack on his novel Sunset in Albano and the ‘heroic’ Earl Bishop Hervey

Malin Head

Invest in Malin Head tourism plan to ease pressure on Killarney: Ward

(Photo - Tom Heaney, nwpresspics)

Housing Executive helps create sensory support project in Strabane

Mayor of Derry and Strabane, Councillor Grace Uí Niallais, has officially launched Council’s 2026 Christmas programme at the Guildhall.

Christmas lights switch-on, festive markets and craft fairs announced in Derry

Gregory Campbell says societal change needs to be realised to ensure those who use smart glasses or phones to abuse or bully women and girls should be made to feel like 'pariahs'.

Smart glass and phone abusers should be made feel like ‘pariahs’ – Campbell

MLA Mark H. Durkan with a bag of dumped letters.

Royal Mail investigates dumped letters in Derry

Mrs. Joyce Logue, vice-chair, Review of the RE Core Syllabus (second from right) and Hollybush PS principal Feargal Friel at the Stormont Education Committee. Also pictured are Francine Walls, St Patrick's College, Maghera and Professor Noel Purdy, chair of the Review of the RE Core Syllabus.

Joyce Logue proud of ‘pluralistic’ draft RE syllabus

Sister Ghost Live.

Musician Sister Ghost set to fly the flag for Derry on Japan tour

Dave Duggan (second from right) in attendance at the Brandywell when Derry City FC knocked IFK Göteborg (Gothenburg) of Sweden out of the UEFA Cup in 2006.

Dave Duggan conjures 'glory nights and heartache' of Derry City FC for new book

MP Colum Eastwood and Foyle Hospice Chief Executive Donall Henderson at Westminster.

Eastwood says Foyle Hospice care should not have to rely on donations

The Derry Credit Union Ladies' Committee in the 1960s.

MLAs stress Derry’s contribution to credit union movement as reforms progress

Planning application submitted for new Strabane Leisure Centre.

Strabane Leisure Centre planning application submitted

The cast from the Wizard of Oz, all the way from Donegal. (0311Jb34)

34 photos of Derry folk dressed up for Halloween in 2006

Housing Executive investment in Derry City and Strabane District Council area during 2025/26 amounted to £51.18m.

NIHE interim CEO Catherine McFarland says body invested £51.18m in 2025/26

Janis Scallon, Director of Further Education, DfE, Barra Best MC, Geri Martin and Gary Rutherford Honorary Award winners, and Dr. Catherine O'Mullan, NWRC.

Gary Rutherford and Geri Martin recognised by NWRC with honorary awards

Adam Laughlin.

Shakespeare comes to shanty as Derry comedian Adam Laughlin performs Macbeth

Tico the Shetland pony from Happy Hooves helps customers choose their tarot cards during a Halloween event at Brew and Bite Café.

Tico the shetland pony brings Halloween tarot readings to Brew and Bite Café

Jamie-Lee O'Donnell

Jamie-Lee O'Donnell to attend 39th Foyle Film Festival

Bahá’ís in Derry will gather in the Verbal Arts Centre on Monday evening to celebrate the birthdays of the twin founders of the faith Bahá’u’lláh and His Forerunner, the Báb.

Bahá’ís in Derry to mark faith founders with special celebration

DCFC footballers, Brandon Fleming & James Olayinka
pre-Cup final visit to Gaelscoil Éadain Mhóir. (Photo - Tom Heaney, nwpresspics) : .

Cuairt réaltaí Cathair Dhoire ar Ghaelscoil Éadain Mhóir

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