Foyle MLA

Mark Durkan has said it made no sense that the cost of housing in Derry outstripped that of Belfast recently given the ‘significantly higher wages’ in the east of the province.

Durkan: 'Nonsensical & unjust' that cost of housing in Derry outstripped Belfast

Michael Canavan remembered as ‘giant in Derry civil rights movement’

Sinn Féin MLA Ciara Ferguson.

Derry Sinn Féin MLA Ciara Ferguson welcomes funding for Suicide Prevention

Foyle SDLP MLA Mark H Durkan.

Letter delivery delays in Derry 'seems to be worse than ever'

Sinn Féin MLA Ciara Ferguson.

Ferguson urges Derry public to back new bill boosting homelessness support

Aileach Road potholes.

Derry Aileach Road potholes to be resurfaced during this financial year

Mark Durkan

‘Scandalous’ 56 households waiting over a decade for social house transfer

Foyle MLA Ciara Ferguson.

Ferguson presses Nesbitt on roll-out of bowel cancer screening for the over 50s

Sinn Féin MLA Ciara Ferguson.

Urgent need for breast cancer diagnosis improvement

Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan.

Tackling obesity plans welcomed

Sinn Féin MLA Ciara Ferguson has welcomed the official sod cutting ceremony by the First and Deputy First Ministers at Meenan Square development this week.

£11m Meenan Square project takes major step as First Ministers cut sod in Derry

The entrance to Lidl beside the busy Springtown Road/ Buncrana Road junction.

‘Keep Clear’ road markings planned

Alison Currie, Invest NI chief development officer, providing an update on the agency's new Derry office at Stormont.

Business case approved for ‘jewel in the crown’ Invest NI Derry office

A Bill to establish a Regional Balance Strategic Framework (RBSF) aimed at addressing economic disparities between different regions in the North has been introduced to the Assembly by Sinéad McLaughlin.

McLaughlin introduces bill to address regional economy disparities in the North

Mark Durkan has called for MLAs to vote to give police new powers to tackle the dangerous use of scramblers and e-scooters.

Durkan: MLAs must vote to give police powers to seize e-scooters and scramblers

Mark Durkan has said increasing care home capacity in Derry can play a central role in reducing pressure at Altnagelvin Hospital.

Durkan: Increasing care beds in Derry can help reduce hospital pressure
Mark Durkan has said increasing care home capacity in Derry can play a central role in reducing pressure at Altnagelvin Hospital.
Kevin Mullan

Mark Durkan has said local councils have been at the forefront in the fightback against poverty amid a cost-of-living crisis that is being felt ‘extremely acutely’ in Derry and Strabane.

Councils crucial in fightback against poverty that is ‘acutely felt’ in Derry

Over 20 children in Derry were still awaiting confirmation of a secondary level place for September in the middle of May.

22 children still awaiting secondary level places in middle of May

Altnagelvin A&E

New 111 service would ease pressure on staff at Altnagelvin A&E: McLaughlin

Mark Durkan

Durkan raises low level of Derry social housing completions with Lyons

A business case is due to be submitted imminently for a new regional endometriosis centre of excellence in the Western Trust.

Business case for new regional endometriosis centre of excellence

Sinéad McLaughlin

Sinéad McLaughlin presses Andrew Muir on funding for Mobuoy clean-up

SDLP Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan. Photograph by Declan Roughan / Press Eye

Durkan calls for urgent fuel support for carers and nurses

Ciara Ferguson MLA and Danny Baker MLA.

Holiday Hunger Bill to help keep children fed during summer passes second stage

Former DUP MLA Gary Middleton

Middleton’s ‘absolute bravery’ in speaking about mental health commended

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

DUP MLA Gary Middleton.

Colum Eastwood commends former Council and Stormont colleague Gary Middleton
Colum Eastwood has commended his former Derry City Council and Stormont colleague Gary Middleton for talking about his mental health challenges.
Kevin Mullan

Foyle MLA Pádraig Delargy in Toronto where he addressed a Friends of Sinn Féin Canada event in the West Cork Irish Pub on Easter Sunday.

Delargy tells Toronto Easter event ‘diaspora can build pressure for unity’

A one-way system is being considered for Creggan Heights but roads minister Liz Kimmins says an extension of the evaluation to Central Drive would require widespread local support.

Extension of one-way Creggan Heights probe to Central Drive would need support

Roads minister Liz Kimmins says her officials are working with the Department for Communities to allay parking concerns raised by residents living with the Derry Walls.

Kimmins’ officials working to allay parking concerns of Derry Walls residents

Ciara Ferguson Foyle MLA.

Derry Sinn Féin MLA Ciara Ferguson welcomes removal of two child limit

Sinn Féin MLA Ciara Ferguson.

PEACEPLUS funding must be maintained - Derry MLA

Foyle MLA Pádraig Delargy.

'Huge support' for all pupils having the option to wear trousers

Pictured at the at the unveiling of the Historical Institutional Abuse memorial plaque in the Great Hall, Parliament Buildings are First Minister Michelle O’Neill, deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly, NI Assembly Speaker Edwin Poots and Fiona Ryan, Commissioner for Survivors of Institutional Childhood Abuse.

Unveiling of plaque for victims of institutional abuse an ‘important moment’

Northlands, Derry

Northlands Centre: ‘Transforming lives and challenging stigma' for 50 years

Pádraig Delargy

Pádraig Delargy will not seek re-election as Sinn Féin MLA for Derry

Almost £5.9m has been ring-fenced for twenty miles of track renewals on the Derry to Coleraine rail line this year, Liz Kimmins has said.

£5.9m ring-fenced for track renewal on Derry to Coleraine line

President Catherine Connolly visited Youth Action Northern Ireland, Peace and Reconciliation Centre, at St. Columb’s Park House during her first official visit to Derry last week.

Delargy hails President Catherine Connolly visit as ‘momentous occasion'

Sinn Féin MLA Pádraig Delargy.

‘Only through building a new Ireland will we realise our full potential’

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer (R) speaks to European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen (C) as France's President Emmanuel Macron (L) looks on at the G20 Leaders' Summit at the Nasrec Expo Centre on November 22, 2025 in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo by Henry Nicholls-WPA Pool/Getty Images)

McLaughlin calls for UK to rejoin EU as new global order emerges

Sinéad McLaughlin

McLaughlin raises Derry restaurant closures and queries rate impact

SDLP economy spokesperson Sinéad McLaughlin

McLaughlin: £46.1m for Magee medical school welcome but must be tied to PfG

An artist's impression of how Foyle Reeds might have looked.

Delargy welcomes funding for structural assessment of Foyle Bridge barriers

Sinn Féin MLA Ciara Ferguson.

British Government must reverse 'shameful' cuts

Ciara Ferguson.

Ferguson: Inclusion of Derry-Portadown line in strategy ‘hugely positive’

Members of Hospice Alliance NI on the steps of Parliament Buildings, Stormont, ahead of the launch of the Assembly’s Report on Access to Palliative Care Services

Derry MLA backs ‘much-cherished’ Foyle Hospice in bid to fix funding model

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

MLA Mark H Durkan slams civil service recruitment amid 927 vacancies

Sinn Féin MLA Pádraig Delargy.

‘All-Ireland census can help inform better decision making’ - Derry MLA

Sinéad McLaughlin

Longer waits for urgent breast cancer appointments ‘devastating’ says McLaughlin

Mark H Durkan. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

Families being 'pushed further to the brink' - MLA

The defacement of ‘Londonderry’ roads signs was raised in Stormont this week as MLAs discussed the destruction of a bilingual street sign in East Belfast.

Defacement of ‘Londonderry’ signs raised after Belfast street sign destroyed

Sinéad McLaughlin

Sinéad McLaughlin rejects imposition of ‘so-called BritCards’ on Derry citizens

The Brandywell Stadium

Durkan launches petition to refer NI Football Fund decision to the Executive

Gary Middleton

DUP continues to push for British Army recruitment at Derry fairs

The Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has described a psychiatrist shortage in the Western Trust as a ‘massive postcode lottery'.

Psychiatric shortage in Western Trust a 'massive postcode lottery’ says Nesbitt

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