Colum Eastwood

On September 18 the UK Government and NI Executive Ministers gathered at The Guildhall in Derry on Wednesday to sign off on the financial package for the Derry and Strabane City Region City Deal, which will help unlock in excess of £290m.

Eastwood and Campbell press Benn on paused City Deals

Colum Eastwood MP, speaking at the Signing of the Financial Deal for Derry and Strabane region at the Guildhall recently. Photo: George Sweeney

‘You ain’t seen nothing yet’

The late Carita Kerr with her husband John during his mayoralty in 1995/96.

Carita Kerr was ‘inspiration’ & touched the lives of many as a teacher and tutor

Colum Eastwood MP, speaking at the Signing of the Financial Deal for Derry and Strabane region at the Guildhall on Wednesday morning. Photo: George Sweeney

Colum Eastwood says the City Deal is an 'investment jump start'

Derry & Strabane's £250m City Deal will be signed off in the coming days.

Derry & Strabane City Deal sign off to go ahead 'in the coming days'

Derry & Strabane's City Deal was the single biggest investment due to the region.

Shock as British government pauses City Deal

Magee College

Eastwood attacks PfG over ‘up to 10,000’ Magee pledge as ‘shocking row back’

President Michael D Higgins condoles with SDLP Leader Colum Eastwood at the Funeral of Pat Hume in 2021. Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

President says Eastwood contribution to peace 'significant' in SDLP leadership

Colum Eastwood speaks to the press in Derry's Waterside yesterday.

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood has announced he is standing down

Colum Eastwood

Simon Harris says Colum Eastwood ‘served island of Ireland with distinction’

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood stands down from the part on August 29-08-2024.

Watch: Derry SDLP leader Colum Eastwood stands down

Journalist Nell McCafferty speaking during a Civil Rights Conference in Derry in 2018.

Nell McCafferty described as a ‘mould breaker’ and feminist icon

Doug Beattie. Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Eastwood pays tribute to Beattie after UUP leader resigns

Colum Eastwood sat on the British Government backbenches in Westminster on Wednesday

Colum Eastwood sits on British Government backbenches at Westminster

SDLP Leader and Derry MP Colum Eastwood.

'I won't be intimidated by anybody' - Colum Eastwood

The paint on Walker's Plinth at the Derry Walls.

Eastwood condemns Derry plinth attack

SDLP Leader Colum Eastwood MP has condemned a paint attack on Walkers Plinth in Derry which he said is designed to raise tension in the city ahead of the 12th July.

Laura Glenn

Micky Doherty with people supported by Praxis Care.

Praxis celebrates 40 years of service 'The staff are God’s angels'

Colum Eastwood with his SDLP colleagues pictured at the count centre in Magherafelt.

Eastwood vows to hit the ground running after historic election

SDLP Leader Colum Eastwood.

'We’re very happy' - Colum Eastwood

Casting their ballots yesterday morning were SDLP Leader Colum Eastwood at Model P.S. and Sinn Féin Councillor Sandra Duffyat Lenamore Youth Centre. Photos by George Sweeney / Derry Journal.

Derry decides: Foyle Westminster election count to get under way

Colum Eastwood.

SDLP Colum Eastwood - ‘Derry deserves MP who will fight at Westminster ever day’

SDLP Colr Lilian Seenoi-Barr, newly elected mayor of Derry and Strabane, pictured with SDLP leader Colum Eastwood MP and her husband Patrick. Photo: George Sweeney.

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood shares his thoughts on Derry's Mayor

SDLP Councillor Lilian Barr.

Lilian Barr set to make history

Colum Eastwood MP speaking at the march and rally on Saturday afternoon, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Photo: George Sweeney

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood spoke out on families struggling across the North

Foyle Alliance Party Westminster candidate Rachael Ferguson.

Alliance Party confirm Rachael Ferguson to contest Westminster election

Derry MP Colum Eastwood has sharply criticsed British Prime Minister Rish Sunak's conscription plan.

National Service pledge slammed

UUP candidate Janice Montgomery.

General Election: Janice Montgomery confirmed as UUP candidate in Foyle

The Ulster Unionist Party has announced Janice Montgomery will contest Foyle in the forthcoming General Election on July 4.

Kevin Mullan

Foyle MP Colum Eastwood

General Election 2024: Derry will head to the polls to elect Foyle MP on July 4

Protestors carry flags and placards during a rally in Guildhall Square in January, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Photo: George Sweeney

Ireland joins Spain and Norway in recognising the State of Palestine

Colum Eastwood has called on the Executive to urgently address what he has called the ‘severe social and emergency housing crisis affecting Derry’.

Eastwood: Executive must address ‘severe social & emergency housing crisis'

Lilian Barr will be the next Mayor of Derry City & Strabane District Council.

SDLP makes history as Lilian Barr to be next Mayor

Protest to “Stop arming the genocide.”

'Until we are all free, none of us are free'

Colum Eastwood MP has again called for the British government to offer a formal apology and compensation to women born in the 1950s who have been adversely affected by changes to the state pension age.

Colum Eastwood calls for formal apology for the ‘women of Derry and beyond’

Leo Varadkar and Colum Eastwood

Eastwood describes Varadkar as ‘relentless ally to the people here as Taoiseach’

A Palestinian girl eats a piece of bread as people check debris on February 22, 2024, following overnight Israeli air strikes in Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, as battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas continue. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)

Palestine Solidarity Campaign issues St. Patrick's Day call to politicians

Colum Eastwood speaking in the British House of Commons on Monday, February 26.

Eastwood brands address to British King ‘love letter to DUP’

Foyle MP Colum Eastwood

Bloody Sunday families and Colum Eastwood welcome decision not to prosecute

A recent mass rally in protest over the war on Gaza in Derry.

Anti-war campaigner welcomes Derry MP's stance

Foyle MLAs Ciara Ferguson and Pádraig Delargy with First Minister designate Michelle O'Neill and Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald at Stormont on Thursday.

First ever nationalist First Minister may be appointed on Saturday

Peter Brooke (on left) and Chris Heaton-Harris.

Eastwood asks if British are abandoning impartiality & undermining GFA with deal

Michelle O'Neill, the first ever nationalist First Minister at Stormont, will be faced in opposition by SDLP MLA Matthew O'Toole, if power-sharing is restored as is expected. (Photos by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

Eastwood: First nationalist First Minister & opposition leader ‘significant’

The policy paper claims 'unfettered access for qualifying Northern Ireland goods to Great Britain will be safeguarded and future-proofed'.

British government publishes details of 24 point bi-lateral deal with the DUP

The late Tony Lloyd (right) during a visit to Lifford Bridge in 2018 with the then Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Professor Deirdre Heenan. Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Eastwood pays tribute to ‘great friend’ & ‘champion of the underdog’ Tony Lloyd

Protestors carry flags and placards during Saturday afternoon’s march and rally in Derry calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Photo: George Sweeney

Thousands of people line the streets of Derry in support of Palestine

RAFAH, GAZA - JANUARY 8: A young Palestinian injured in Israeli air strikes is treated at Kuwait Hospital on January 08, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. Despite Israel's recent troop drawdown in Gaza and the discussion of postwar plans by an Israeli cabinet minister, the country has continued its intensive bombardment of the Gaza Strip, particularly in the territory's south, as it seeks to destroy Hamas, the Palestinian militant group behind the Oct. 7 attacks. More than 22,000 people have been killed in Gaza in the last three months, according to the territory's health ministry, and most of the population has been displaced.(Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)

Eastwood claims Ambassador ‘implied Israeli trying to totally destroy Gaza’

Member of Parliament for Foyle and SDLP Leader Colum Eastwood.

Derry MP Colum Eastwood backs Palestinian Visa Scheme

Winter snow caused chaos in Derry in January

Derry Journal Review of the Year 2023: January

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson pictured at Hillsborough Castle, Co. Down, with party colleagues Gavin Robinson, Emma Little Pengelly and Gordon Lyons last week. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

'End the blockade': Nationalist leaders call on DUP

Jon McCourt who has been awarded the freedom of Derry City and Strabane following a ceremony in The Guildhall. Jon has campaigned tirelessly for the victims of Institutional abuse. Picture Martin McKeown. 19.12.23

'I hope I have made a difference to people’s lives'

Foyle MP and SDLP Leader Colum Eastwood with his solicitor Ciaran Shiels.

Colum Eastwood expressed grave concerns over PSNI summons

Party leader Colum Eastwood MP pictured previously at the SDLP annual Conference in St Columb’s Hall. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2312GS – 37

Executive return must follow talks – MP

Foyle MP Colum Eastwood has strongly condemned a Neo-Nazi sticker that was posted on a lamp post in Derry.

Eastwood blasts those behind Neo-Nazi sticker, calls for unity against far-right

BBC Radio Foyle on the Northland Road.

Radio Foyle North West Today breakfast show to be extended to one hour

A power-sharing Executive cannot be formed because the DUP is refusing to support the election of a speaker at Stormont.

£1bn Levelling Up allocation but none for Derry due to DUP boycott of Stormont

The Next Home outlet on the Crescent Link

Next Home to close on St. Brigid’s Day, retailer will try 'to relocate staff’