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Councillors Sandra Duffy and Pat Murphy promoting the good jobs bill at Northside.

DUP accused of 'abandoning working families'

Carla Lockhart from the DUP outside Drumcree Parochial Hall in Portadown. Peter Morrison/PA Wire

Carla Lockhart quits DUP

Sinn Fein First Minister Michelle O'Neill (front), accompanied by party colleagues (left to right) John O'Dowd, Aisling Reilly and Caoimhe Archibald speaking to reporters in the Great Hall of Parliament Buildings, Stormont on Monday. David Young/PA Wire

'I will not be deterred' - O'Neill

First Minister Michelle O'Neill meets with locals on the Garvaghy Road. Picture date: Wednesday September 30, 2026. PA Photo. The planned Orange Order parade on Sunday was stopped by police, who were concerned about the scale of a mass protest on part of the proposed route - the predominantly nationalist Garvaghy Road. Photo credit should read: Mark Marlow/PA Wire

'The days of treating people like second-class citizens are over'

First Minister Michelle O’Neill. Liam McBurney/PA Wire

DUP blocks joint engagements with First Minister Michelle O'Neill

(left to right) Joanne Bunting MLA, deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly, DUP leader Gavin Robinson, DUP deputy leader Michelle McIlveen and Education Minister Paul Givan. (Liam McBurney/the Press Association)

DUP party officers to meet amid ongoing fall-out over Drumcree dispute

First Minister Michelle O'Neill speaking in the Assembly in Monday.

'Catch yourself on': Michelle O’Neill responds to calls to consider position

Naomi Long suggests future cultural use for Limavady Courthouse

An infant lies inside an incubator at Al-Rantisi Children's Hospital in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on September 24, 2026. Hospital staff said shortages of generator fuel and oil had forced reception, emergency, neonatal and laboratory services to stop, while other departments operated according to available fuel and generator-powered medical equipment faced disruption. (Photo by Faiz Qreqa / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)

Derry unionists back motion calling for maternity units to be released into Gaza

Drumcree Church in Portadown. A High Court has quashed a decision by the Parades Commission to impose restrictions on the annual Orange Order parade at Drumcree. Picture date: Wednesday August 26, 2026.

Drumcree return parade along Garvaghy Road given green light

Alderman Niree McMorris

DUP call for placenames origin posts to be 50:50 rejected

Sinn Féin representatives in Derry highlighting the importance of the legislation.

Campaign to promote workers’ rights

Gregory Campbell. Picture By: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press

Gregory Campbell faces probe by Parliament’s expenses watchdog

First Minister Michelle O’Neill speaking to the Press, yesterday, before the launch of the book “Women’s Voices Hopes for a New Ireland” by Grace McDermott and Aoife Ferguson, held in Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin, a Féile event. (Photo - Tom Heaney, nwpresspics)

Michelle O'Neill: 'We have fought really hard on Magee'

On left, Nicola Madden, retiring Limavady Grammar School principal, and Marshall Kilgore, who is standing down as Drumachose Primary School headmaster.

Tributes to retiring Limavady principals Marshall Kilgore and Nicola Madden

The British navel boat HMS Biter (P270-type patrol and training vessel), docked at Derry Quay during the Foyle Maritime Festival. (Photo - Tom Heaney, nwpresspics)

Middleton ‘disappointed’ at cool reception of British naval patrol boat in Derry
DUP MLA Julie Middleton has expressed ‘disappointment’ at the cool reception a British naval patrol boat received during its visit to Derry over the Foyle Maritime Festival.
Kevin Mullan

DUP Alderman Chelsea Cooke

DUP’s Chelsea Cooke speaks of ‘deeply personal’ experience of baby loss

DUP Alderman Amanda Lynch

New DUP councillor Amanda Lynch ‘proud to follow in footsteps of granny and dad’

Is Unionism in damage limitation mode? wonders veteran Derry unionist Terry Wright. A picture of the Edward Carson monument at Stormont. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye.com

Opinion: Is Unionism in damage limitation mode? wonders Terry Wright

Alderman Niree McMorris.

Deputy Mayoral year was a 'truly privileged experience'

DUP MLA Alan Robinson

Robinson and Campbell raise concerns about Coleraine campus with UU

Derry & Strabane has a new councillor following the announcement that Amanda Sylvia Louise Lynch is to replace Julie Middleton as the DUP’s representative in the Faughan District Electoral Area (DEA).

Derry/Strabane has new councillor as Amanda Lynch named as DUP rep

An eroded bank on the River Roe

Works to repair eroded bank on River Roe in Limavady to take place this summer

Andrew Muir

Muir disputes DUP and UFU claim Derry-Donegal not representative for TB pilot

Alderman Julie Middleton.

Middleton will be a ‘strong voice’ for Derry & Strabane

Julie Middleton making her Maiden Speech at Stormont on Tuesday.

Julie Middleton addresses ‘devastating effects of mental ill health’ in Derry

New Foyle MLA Julie Middleton signs the Stormont roll of membership as DUP leader Gavin Robinson, East Derry MP Gregory Campbell and Strangford MLA Michelle McIlveen look on.

Julie Middleton describes new MLA role a ‘privilege’ as she takes Stormont seat
Julie Middleton has described it as a privilege to have been co-opted by the DUP to serve as MLA for Foyle after signing the roll of membership at Stormont.
Kevin Mullan

Julie Middleton

Julie Middleton confirmed as new DUP MLA for Foyle

Gary Middleton

Derry DUP MLA Gary Middleton to step down to deal with mental health challenges

SDLP MLA Sinéad McLaughlin joined calls for an allocation of £81million to support electricity consumers in the North to be targeted at those most in need at an Economy Committee meeting in Derry this week.

Sinéad McLaughlin calls for £81m energy support to be targeted at those in need

Firefighters had to respond to 59 house fires that were started deliberately in Derry over the past five years, it's been revealed.

59 out of 302 (20 per cent) of Derry house fires were started deliberately

Gregory Campbell has called for money to be better spent on the health service and for what he described as the ‘monolith that is the National Health Service’ to be modernised.

Gregory Campbell calls for modernisation of ‘monolith that is the NHS’

Creggan Heights. (File picture)

Second Derry plebiscite on Irish language signage for Creggan Heights

Gregory Campbell at Westminster.

Gregory Campbell calls for St. Patrick’s Cross to be flown over Westminster

President Catherine Catherine Connolly and the Mayor of Derry and Strabane Councillor Ruairí McHugh view the Peace prizes won by the late John Hume (Ghandi, Nobel and Martin Luther King prizes) on display in the Guildhall.

President Connolly tells Gregory Campbell ‘it’s important to learn from history’

The Bloody Sunday families and supporters as they made their way to court in Belfast last autumn.

Little-Pengelly asked to refute Robinson’s ‘disgraceful’ ‘move on’ remark

DUP Alderman Julie Middleton.

Alderman calls for heart health awareness after sudden death of father

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt

‘Significant investment’ going into 40 years old Altnagelvin A&E

Rebecca Powell, Tia Flinter, Tallia Morrow, Caitlin Patton, Tori Mc Laughlin and Faye McCrudden were winners at U13 and U14 Irish Dancing at Feis Dhoire Cholmcille. Photo: George Sweeney

Derry Journal Review Of The Year 2025: April

Former Prime Ministers Tony Blair and John Major held a Stronger In campaign event at Ulster University's Magee College campus on St. Columba's Day in 2016. Welcoming them to the campus was Provost, Professor Deirdre Heenan.

Muir: DUP ‘ploughed on’ with Brexit despite Blair and Major warnings in Derry

Strabane Sinn Féin Councillor Paul Boggs.

Lack of youth provision in Strabane raised

Families of the Bloody Sunday victims in Belfast ahead of the verdict on Soldier F. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Mark Durkan brands Gavin Robinson Para insignia social media post ‘disgusting’

DUP MLA Paul Givan (File picture by Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker)

Council join calls for Paul Givan resignation

The New Gate Arts and Culture Centre at the corner of Hawkin Street and Kennedy Place

Contractor appointed to deliver £1.4m New Gate Apartments project

Gregory Campbell and Niree McMorris laying a wreath at the Diamond War Memorial to mark October 7.

DUP mark October 7 in Derry by laying wreath to all innocents

Foyle MLAs have clashed at the Stormont while backing a motion calling for greater regional balance in the North.

Derry MLAs clash as they back calls for greater regional balance

Gary Middleton

DUP continues to push for British Army recruitment at Derry fairs

St Columb's Park.

Anti-social behaviour at St Columb's Park raised

Caw roundabout

Caw roundabout traffic upgrade approved with work to get under way in early 2026

The Windsor Framework introduced a new system for moving goods from Britain to the North. Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Ferguson brands Brexit a ‘child of the DUP’

Colum Eastwood

Eastwood says councillors ‘completely right’ to oppose British Army at job fair

Gary Middleton MLA.

‘Failure of political leadership’ – DUP

People Before Profit Councillor Shaun Harkin.

Council legal observer move

Bonfire under construction at Meenan Square in the Bogside on Thursday, Photo: George Sweeney

Concerns raised ahead of Bogside bonfire

Willie Hay

Willie Hay says violence on streets must be resisted by democrats

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