Economy Minister

Magee College

Programme business case for Magee expansion to be complete in September

City of Derry Airport

Dublin’s Department of Transport to lead meeting about re-opening Derry flight

The BT offices in Derry

Derry political representatives lament BT closure as ‘huge blow’

Darren Guy

Guy describes potential BT closure as ‘huge blow’ for workers and Derry

Passengers disembarking at the rail terminus in Derry. (File picture)

'Derry’s infrastructure unfit for 10,000 students'

Conor Murphy making his Maiden Speech in the Seanad.

Conor Murphy flags difficulties of partition in maiden speech in Seanad

Conor Murphy and Caoimhe Archibald

Archibald replaces Murphy at Economy, O’Dowd to Finance

Conor Murphy

Conor Murphy leaving economy brief to take up seat on 27th Seanad

A public appointment competition has been launched to recruit a new Chair of the North West Regional College (NWRC).

North West Regional College seeking new permanent Chair

Economy Minister Conor Murphy is pictured with Brendan McGuigan, Director of Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering at Invest NI, and Caoimhe Keogan, Chief People Officer, AVEVA.

New jobs as AVEVA to expand operations in Derry

Magee College

Magee cross-departmental group being finalised with £152m committed to expansion

City of Derry Airport.

Editorial: Airport funding switch a welcome move

Economy Minister Conor Murphy with, from left, Magee Taskforce Chair, Stephen Kelly Magee Taskforce Vice Chair Nicola Skelly and Ulster University Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Bartholomew.

MLAs welcome Magee Taskforce interim report

Conor Murphy has said tourist organisations in Derry are generally of a view that the British Government’s Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) is ‘not good news’ for the industry.

Conor Murphy says Derry tourism sector of view ETAs ‘not good news’

Conor Murphy

Conor Murphy steps down on health grounds; Deirdre Hargey interim minister

Magee College

More capital funding provided to UU for Coleraine than Magee in ten years
More conventional capital grant funding was provided to Ulster University for the development of infrastructure projects at its Coleraine campus than at Magee over the past ten years, the Economy Minister has confirmed.
Kevin Mullan

Magee College

£385m cost of expanding Magee to 7,500 includes funding already committed

Economy Minister Conor Murphy and Infrastructure Minister John O’Dowd with Steve Frazer, Managing Director, City of Derry Airport, at the announcement of funding to protect the continuation of flights from the airport to London Heathrow. Credit Lorcan Doherty

Economy Minister Conor Murphy announces £1.018m for Derry to Heathrow flight

Sinéad McLaughlin

Sinéad McLaughlin laments being unable to raise Radio Foyle and job disparity

Ulster University - Magee campus. (Photo: Nigel McDowell/Ulster University)

999 days later: Derry university expansion plans

Lyons announces independent review of Invest NI

Derry MLA Pádraig Delargy calls for extension of £100 ‘spend local’ card deadlin...

Sinéad McLaughlin raising the high unemployment rate in Derry this week.

Sinéad McLaughlin and Gordon Lyons clash over Derry jobs

Economy Minister Gordon Lyons with the Mayor of Derry and Strabane, Alderman Graham Warke. Registration for the High Street Scheme Spend Local card will be open from September 27 until October 25.

High Street Voucher Scheme to open on Monday - how to apply

SDLP Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan

Concerns over £100 High Street Voucher access raised by Derry MLA

SDLP Councillor Rory Farrell. DER1319GS-031

‘Patience wearing thin’ over Magee expansion

2019: Ricardo Butler and Shane Colgan, Fabrication & Welding, at the North West Regional College Inter Campus Skillbuild competition.

£180m for new NI Traineeship in carpentry, car mechanics and retail etc at furth...
The Economy Minister Paul Frew, has announced an investment of £180million in a new vocational education and training programme for people aged 16 and over, delivered by the North West Regional College and other Further Education (FE) colleges in Northern Ireland.
Ciaran Lockhart

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'Patience is wearing thin' over Magee expansion, councillors told

£4.5m air fund to help support Derry-GB links with talks ongoing over Dublin rou...

2019: Councillor Sandra Duffy with Mr McMonagle, Miss McCauley and pupils from St Brigids College delivering free period products.

Period Poverty universities pilot welcomed

Photo by Aaron McCracken

Economy Minister: I remain committed to the North West

‘It is not possible to design and fund schemes for every sector of business or e...

Handout photo issued by Press Eye of Economy Minister Diane Dodds during the daily media broadcast on coronavirus (Covid-19) in the Long Gallery at Parliament Buildings in Stormont, Belfast.

NI Economy Minister Diane Dodds criticised over Coleraine remarks after Derry’s ...

September 2015: Local people queue for a Jobs Fair in Derry. Politicians said the historic issue of lack of jobs in the locally needs to be addressed.

Invest NI responds to ‘abysmal failure’ claims

Magee College

Magee won’t expand unless number of uni students in NI is increased, says SDLP's...

Diane Dodds.

Diane Dodds says £81m from Invest NI delivered £439m and 4,280 jobs in North Wes...

North West Regional College

Further education colleges to partially reopen to support delivery of vocational...

InvestNI backed Derry jobs dip sharply

Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson.

Economic plan to tackle regional inequality needed

The retail, hospitality and tourism sector is under increasing pressure because of Covid-19 crisis.

Grants to retail, hospitality and tourism sector must be delivered swiftly: Coop...

SDLP Councillor Sinead McLaughlin.

Local MLA requests meeting with minister about investment strategy

The Peace Bridge, Derry.

Derry met or exceeded visitor expectations

Arlene Foster and Martin McGuinness.

McGuinness urges parties to support motion calling on Arlene Foster to step asid...

sausage-rolls

InvestNI backing NW sausage rolls and GAA tops in efforts to achieve balanced re...

Seagate Derry

Fears over new Seagate job cuts

SDLP MLA Gerry Mullan.

SDLP MLA says '˜digital divide' in the North West must end

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