Foyle MLA

Economy Minister Conor Morphy with Foyle MLAs Ciara Ferguson and Pádraig Delargy.

'Apprenticeships can be a key route to success’

The Crescent Link is to be resurfaced immediately outside the fire station within the next six months due to its relatively poor condition.

Crescent Link to be resurfaced outside fire station within six months

Sinn Féin MLAs Ciara Ferguson and Pádraig Delargy with the First Minister Michelle O'Neill at Magee College.

Magee report ‘offers vision towards 10,000 students at the university’ - Delargy

Colum Eastwood

Colum Eastwood welcomes publication of Magee Taskforce report

Sinéad McLaughlin with her SDLP colleagues at the launch of the party's ‘Our European Future’ policy paper.

Call for European Commission office in ‘cross-border urban capital’ of Derry

Sinn Féin MLA Ciara Ferguson has welcomed the Assembly vote to continue with the mitigations created by the Protocol and Windsor Framework.

MLA welcomes continuation of mitigations created by the Protocol

A public consultation on the North West Transport Plan 2035, which is critical to progress on the paused A2 Buncrana Road dualling scheme, is now expected to be launched next summer.

Transport plan crucial to A2 Buncrana Road widening pushed back to summer 2025

The Cashel, the massive Braidwater scheme on the Buncrana Road, will involve an investment £450m and the construction of 2,500 new homes.

John O’Dowd says NI Water still trying to secure site for Coshquin station

Sinn Féin MLA Ciara Ferguson and SDLP MLA Mark H. Durkan.

Calls for homelessness action with thousands affected as Christmas approaches

Sinéad McLaughlin has raised the ‘harrowing and deeply distressing’ stories of women who suffered coercive control from partners and spoke of the influence of paramilitarism in their contributions to a recent report produced for Foyle Women’s Aid.

‘Deeply distressing’ stories of coercive control victims’ raised

A UVF flag flying in the Waterside during the summer.

Flags, insignia and symbols in Derry ‘driving really poor relations’

Pádraig Delargy has called for the NHS111 urgent mental health support number to be rolled out in the north.

Delargy calls for NHS111 urgent mental health number to be rolled out

Former Education Minister Michelle McIlveen with pupils from Ardnashee School and College at the sod cutting ceremony for the new £34 million school on the former Foyle College site at Northland Road in 2022.

£34m Ardnashee school expected to be completed within four months

A Derry ratepayer has applied for a reduction in their rates due to the prolonged closure of Foyle Street to facilitate works by NI Water, it’s emerged.

Foyle Street ratepayer applies for reduced rate due to prolonged closure

Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Padraig Delargy.

Voting age ‘should be lowered to 16’

Sinn Fein MLA Padraig Delargy.

Derry Sinn Féin MLA Delargy welcomes pay deal for educational support staff
Sinn Féin MLA Pádraig Delargy has welcomed agreement between trade unions and the Education Authority to implement the Pay and Grading Review.
Jack Tibbetts

Sinéad McLaughlin

EU funding shortfall after Brexit caused damage in Derry, says McLaughlin

Doug Beattie. Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Eastwood pays tribute to Beattie after UUP leader resigns

Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 8th January 2022 -

Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

Durkan criticises a ‘lackadaisical’ response on holiday hunger

CGI of the proposed A2 Buncrana Road project.

O’Dowd reiterates view that Buncrana Road widening is part of transport strategy

John O’Dowd hopes to be able to present the final All-Island Rail Review report to the Executive this month.

O’Dowd hopes to present All-Island Rail Review report to Executive this month

The A6. It’s been claimed cones laid to facilitate grass-cutting on the A6 have been causing delays between Derry and Dungiven for weeks.

Cones laid to facilitate grass-cutting causing A6 delays, claims McLaughlin

Waste previously recovered from the Mobuoy site.

Muir: It is vital to get Mobuoy remediation right with draft strategy complete

DfI Roads are to clean up footpaths on Westway in Creggan from the Rosemount roundabout to the Ráth roundabout in the heart of Creggan following lobbying from Foyle MLA Mark H. Durkan.

DfI agrees to clean-up Westway footpaths after overgrowth raised by Durkan

Councillor Lilian Barr will make history when she becomes the first black mayor in the North in Derry's Guildhall on Monday.

Lilian Barr's nomination as first black mayor in Derry 'deeply fitting’

A computer-generated image of how Harbour Square might look under the new proposals.

£45m riverfront plan will get more people walking, cycling and onto buses: DfI

Mark H. Durkan

NI Water has not identified need for Foyle Road sewer investment
NI Water has not identified a need for any capital investment to address sewer flooding in the Foyle Road area, according to Infrastructure Minister John O’Dowd.
Kevin Mullan

Flooding at Ivy Mead in 2017.

Durkan says it is ‘unacceptable’ Drumahoe flood plans are still at design phase

Groarty Road

DfI agrees on need to reduce speed on Groarty Road after site inspection

'Derry Girls' creator Lisa McGee beside a mural in honour of the show at Badger's bar next to the Derry Walls.

McLaughlin hails Walls as ‘steeped in history & immortalised by Lisa McGee’

North West Teachers’ Centre

Givan guarantees future of NW Teachers’ Centre in Derry

An artist's impression of a proposed gallery in the DNA Museum.

Affordability of Derry City Deal projects ‘constantly kept under review’

Road defects on the Strand Road on May 3, 2024.

McLaughlin urges Strand Road & Park Avenue to be prioritised for pothole repair

Mark H. Durkan has said there is a particular danger at this small terrace of cottages on the Groarty Road.

Mark Durkan raises Groarty Road concerns after three reported collisions

Large amounts of rubbish and debris are routinely washing up out the 'Line'.

Environmental Crime Unit to inspect rubbish out the 'Line’

Poverty costs lives and does not affect everyone equally with 24 per cent of Derry people living in relative poverty, according to Foyle MLA Sinéad McLaughlin.

Poverty costs lives with 24% relatively poor in Derry, says McLaughlin

Foyle SDLP MLA Mark H. Durkan. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

'Grief is not determined by the length of pregnancy'

Ms Sinéad McLaughlin.

'Horror stories such as Zoe's should never be allowed to happen' says McLaughlin

NI Water has said it appreciates the upset experienced by residents who were flooded after mains pipe burst in the Belmont area last Thursday.

NI Water appreciates upset over ‘shocking’ burst pipe flooding incident

A midwifery led-unit at Altnagelvin will reopen as soon as a midwife staffing shortage is addressed, Health Minister Robin Swann has said.

Altnagelvin midwifery-led unit will reopen as soon as staffing addressed: Swann

Sinn Féin MLA Ciara Ferguson.

Ferguson welcomes commitment to review early baby loss certificates

Magee College

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

Derry and Steelstown defender Diarmuid Baker. Photo: George Sweeney

MLA praises Derry GAA stars as role models

Foyle MLA Sinéad McLaughlin

DoH and WHSCT working to reinstate local MS helpline following staff shortage

DfI Roads has agreed to amend the traffic signals by incorporating a red light above the right turning green arrow after 10 collision were recorded at the Craigavon Bridge/Foyle Road junction.

New signals planned after 10 collisions at Craigavon Bridge/Foyle Road junction

At one point last month 683 people were waiting for a domiciliary care package in the Western Trust with 3.8 per cent of those waiting in a hospital.

683 waiting for domiciliary care package in Western Trust

Ballyarnett Roundabout

New lane markings and expanded ‘yellow box’ planned for Ballyarnett roundabout

Sinéad McLaughlin

‘Totally indefensible’ 35% or workers do not earn more than minimum wage

An aerial shot of flooding in the Ivy Mead area of Derry in August 2017.

Consultants told to progress to design stage of Ivy Mead flood scheme

Work on the A6 underway last year.

Drumahoe ‘huge bottleneck’ worse than Dungiven says Durkan who urges A6 progress

SDLP MLA Mark H Durkan has called on Education Minister, Paul Givan to extend free school meal and uniform grants for all low-income families in receipt of Universal Credit.

UC migration could see families lose out on free school meals and uniform grants

The All-Island Rail Review has proposed an investment of between £2.1bn and £3.3bn in rail projects to Derry and Donegal.

O’Dowd says ‘Derry Road’ rail link to Portadown will have 200km per hour speed

Pádraig Delargy MLA with councillor Grace Uí Niallais

‘Creggan reservoir agreement can unlock progress on key projects’ says Delargy

Sinéad McLaughlin

Crisis of addiction, mental health in Derry & life expectancy in decline: MLA

Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Padraig Delargy.

Derry MLA urges governments to progress Derry addiction services