MLAs

Group pictured at Sunday evening's Féile 24 event at the Gasyard. Front from left, Raymond McCartney, Geraldine McGuinness, Bernie McGuinness, Martina Anderson and Jennifer McCann. Back from left, Emmett McGuinness, Fiachra McGuinness, Grainnne Hargan, Megan Fearon and Gerry Kelly. (Photo: JIm McCafferty Photography)

Seven photographs of Martin McGuinness event as part of Derry’s Féile 2024

Derry MLAs Snéad McLaughlin and Ciara Ferguson.

Alarm at missed cancer targets

The Derry rail line.

O’Dowd: Work has started on 55,000 sleepers and recruitment for rail upgrade

Marie Lindsay addressing the Stormont Education Committee.

Marie Lindsay warns schools face ‘astronomical deficits’ amid funding crisis

Mark H. Durkan told MLAs this week that the ‘state of health’ in Derry is ‘not like Beirut: it is worse’.

Durkan says ‘state of health’ in Derry is ‘not like Beirut: it is worse’

Pádraig Delargy holding up photographs of dilapidated schools in Derry in Stormont on Tuesday as he called for greater investment in the schools estate in the city.

Delargy shows photos of black mould classrooms as he blasts ‘conditions’

Environment minister Andrew Muir has said water taken from the River Faughan downstream of the Mobuoy dump to supply taps in homes across Derry is rigorously tested by NI Water and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA).

Muir says tap water taken downstream of Mobuoy is rigorously tested for safety

Local MLAs have lamented the level of child poverty in Derry branding it unacceptable with 9,000 children living in poverty in the city, according to the latest figures.

MLAs lament unacceptable child poverty rate in Derry with 9,000 poor children

Pádraig Delargy.

Delargy hails Oakgrove PS for 'breaking down barriers’ in shared future debate

Mobile phones

O’Neill: Phones should not be banned from classrooms but regulated

Gary Middleton

Derry needs to ‘talk up strengths rather than talking down the place’ says MLA

The Faughan Valley High School site in Derry.

Old Faughan Valley School site to be placed on market in ‘near future’

Secondary chool student Jay Curry receiving his Rotary Youth Leadership Development award from Kenny Fisher, District Governor of Rotary Ireland and Patrick O’Riordan, Head of Public Affairs with the European Parliament in Ireland, at an event at Europe House in Dublin recently. [Photo: Collette Creative Photography]

Student Jay wins youth leadership award

DUP MP Alan Robinson

Robinson speaks of two-tier health – ‘wealthy stay healthy while rest wait’

Sinéad McLaughlin has urged Health Minister Robin Swann to bring forward a fully budgeted Women’s Health Strategy for the North.

Women and girls forced to wait years for endometriosis diagnoses: McLaughlin

SDLP Leader, Foyle MP Colum Eastwood.

'We will hold the Executive to account on delivering for North West'

After two arduous years without a government, the return of Stormont has been rightly applauded. The fanfare has ended, the world’s media have gone home and the Prime Minister and Taoiseach have left the stage. It’s now time for MLAs to get down to work.

Colum Eastwood, Foyle MP and SDLP Leader

A pothole on the Northland Road.

MLAs call for ‘huge potholes’ in Derry to be prioritised for share of £1m

Sinéad McLaughlin

New jobs bill to force ‘positive discrimination’ and end ‘decades of neglect’

Chris Heaton-Harris, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, First Minister Michelle O'Neill, Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly and Rishi Sunak, Prime Minister at Stormont Castle this week. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

O’Neill and Little-Pengelly taking case for 'fair and just' deal to Westminster

Independent Councillor Paul Gallagher.

Inequality concerns after Councillors reject own pay rise

Striking public sector workers making their way down Shipquay Street.

Derry Journal Editorial: Enough is enough

John Hume's glasses and signature on a signed copy of the Good Friday Agreement.

Call for changes to Good Friday Agreement law for election of top Stormont roles

Figures obtained by Foyle MP Colum Eastwood show that at the end of June 20,476 people in his Foyle constituency were waiting for a first consultant-led outpatient appointment.

Colum Eastwood brands Derry’s 20,000+ health waiting list ‘utterly shameful'

Colum Eastwood.

Low productivity particularly damaging for Derry, says Colum Eastwood

SDLP Foyle MLA Sinéad McLaughlin.

OPINION: Reform of Stormont critical to improve economic balance

SDLP Foyle MLA Sinéad McLaughlin.

OPINION: Reform of Stormont critical to improve economic balance

SDLP Leader Colum Eastwood.

Derry MP and MLAs meets with Seagate bosses over job fears

SDLP Leader and Foyle MP Colum Eastwood and MLAs Mark Durkan and Sinead McLaughlin have met with senior management of Seagate's Derry operation to discuss the recent news that cost cutting measures are to be introduced by the global US company.

Brendan McDaid

Colum Eastwood MP, party leader, and Claire Hanna MP at the SDLP annual Conference, on Saturday morning, in St Columb’s Hall. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2312GS – 34

IN PICTURES: Opening of SDLP annual conference in Derry

Jeananne Craig, host; Hubert O’Donoghue, AIB Merchant Services; Selina Horshi, Londonderry Chamber; Anna Doherty, Londonderry Chamber; and Professor Liam Maguire, Ulster University.

Chamber President Selina Horshi: Political vacuum is having detrimental effect

BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND - MARCH 01: General views of Stormont. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

Journal Editorial: Get back to Stormont, back to power-sharing, back to work

WINDSOR, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 27: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hold a press conference at Windsor Guildhall on February 27, 2023 in Windsor, England. EU President Ursula Von Der Leyen travelled to the UK today to meet UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to sign off on the agreement on the post-Brexit trade arrangements for Northern Ireland. They agreed yesterday to continue their work in person towards shared, practical solutions for the range of complex challenges around the Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Derry Chamber hopes for 'speedy' return of NI Executive

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

'The clock of progress has been turned back to Dickensian times' - Derry MLA

Enjoying the craic and music in Waterloo Street over the Jazz Festival weekend. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2217GS – 084

Derry Journal Review of the Year 2022: May

Protesters outside the meeting.

DUP lambasted over boycott at Derry Council meeting

Willie Hay

Willie Hay says reducing MLAs’ pay will not change ‘principled’ DUP mindset

Attending the special Mas event in the Guildhall were participants from Women Centre Derry and Strathfoyle Women's Centre.

'Mas matter!': Derry mothers call for improved maternity and perinatal services

The Northern Ireland secretary Chris Heaton-Harris. Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Northern Ireland MLAs' salary cut to £37,000 a year

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris.

MLAs' pay could be cut while joint Dublin-London rule dismissed

Gerard Greene, Chief Executive of Community Pharmacy NI. (Photo Brian Thompson)

Emergency meeting as pharmacists warn of NI medicines shortage

Emmet Doyle

As price inflation soars beyond wages Doyle calls for MLAs to go on £9.50 an hou...

Pictured at the launch of the Derry Journal 250 exhibition at Ulster University Magee on Frday afternoon are Professor Malachy " Néill, Professor Terri Scott, Professor Paul Bartholomew, Vice-Chancellor, Brendan McDaid, Editor, Derry Journal, Leona O’Neill, Journalism Lecturer and Professor Tom Frazer. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2231GS – 044

Derry Journal 250 an ‘incredibly important exhibition’ - Ulster University Vice ...

Marguerite Brosnan AXA , George McKinney Invest Northern Ireland, Mayor Sandra Duffy, Claudio Gienal AXA and Philip Bradley AXA

AXA celebrates official opening of Customer Contact Centre

A fresh analysis of last month’s election shows turnout was down in Derry.

Derry posted the second highest drop in voter turnout in poll

Aidan O'Kane, president, Derry Chamber of Commerce.

Business message to politicians is simple: get back to work and deliver

Gillian Hamilton

Green Party is the main alternative to the five-party Executive system

Aontú was born of principle - it’ll be my watchword if I’m elected

WELL DONE MISCHA! - The Housing Executive's Matthew McCay presents 14 years-old Mischa Tracey with her prize, a new Apple iPad, for winning the Young Rural Volunteer Award 2021 at Enagh Youth Forum, Strathfoyle, Derry on Thursday afternoon last. Mischa is the first winner of the new category aimed at young people. Included at front is David Lavery. Back from left are Michael Cooke, Housing Executive, Kaid Callaghan, Holly Hunter and Zara Doherty. The competition gave rural communities and their local groups the chance to showcase the range of activities they are involved with, helping to keep their areas vibrant and attractive places to live. Included kneeling at front from left are Oliver Wroniak, Kaid Callaghan, Zara Doherty and Patrick Dixon. Standing back from left, Paul Hughes, David Lavery, Matthew McCay, Rural and Regeneration Unit, Housing Executive, Holly Hunter, Eamon Oâ€TMDonnell and Claire Tracey. (Photos: Jim McCafferty Photography)

Strathfoyle teenager receives award for inclusively work

We asked people in Derry city centre for their views on the impact of the cost of living crisis.

Cost of living crisis in Derry : Your views

Paul Cavanagh, Interim Director of Planning & Commissioning at the Health & Social Care Board.

‘Cancer services haven’t caught up with COVID - it’s been a challenge’

Bishop Dónal McKeown

Bishop Dónal McKeown backs removal of teacher fair employment exemption but warn...

Pádraig Delargy.

Bloody Sunday 50: Pádraig Delargy - ‘We are forever indebted to the Bloody Sunda...

Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson says 'double-jobbing' amendment will be withdrawn

Shaun Harkin

Shaun Harkin urges parties to support Winter Fuel Poverty motion

Deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill pictured with Sinn Fein ministers , local MLAs and local councillors, outside the Guildhall on Wednesday morning, during a visit to Derry for a series of meetings. Included in the photograph are Ciara Ferguson MLA, Caoimhe Archibald MLA, Colr. Conor Heaney, Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey, Junior Minister Declan Kearney, Finance Minister Conor Murphy, Padraig Delargey MLA and Colr. Paul Fleming. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2149GS – 026

Sinn Féin ministerial team in Derry to talk housing, Covid and Irish Unity

There are not enough GPs to deal with the pressures