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The Derry Credit Union Ladies' Committee in the 1960s.

MLAs stress Derry’s contribution to credit union movement as reforms progress

First cruise ship of the season Le Lapérouse, which had its inaugural call earlier this year.

Foyle Port to better record-breaking 2026 cruise season next year

Shaun Harkin at a rally in support of the Garvaghy Road residents in Derry. (Photo - Tom Heaney, nwpresspics)

Harkin proud to stand with residents of the Garvaghy Road

‘I’ve buried my daughter, I should never have had to’

Councillor Aisling Hutton.

Breast cancer screening attendance highlighted

A 75 per cent vacancy rate for psychiatrists in the Western Trust has been described as ‘shocking’ by the chair of the Stormont Health Committee.

75% psychiatry vacancy rate in WHSCT

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

Caoimhe Archibald MLA and Councillor Kathleen McGurk with North Belfast MP John Finucane

Caoimhe Archibald and Kathleen McGurk selected to contest East Derry

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

An expectant mother had to sleep on the floor in the Altnagelvin A&E on Monday evening, Julie Middleton told MLAs at Stormont this week.

Middleton: 'Pregnant lady had to sleep on the floor in A&E'

Lilian Seenoi-Barr briefing the TEO Committee on the Draft Framework Race Relations and Delivery Plan 2026-2028.

Dr. Lilian Seenoi-Barr tells MLAs racism is ‘serious and urgent societal crisis’

Liz Kimmins during a visit to Nixon's corner where she met with local political representatives and members of the community to discuss transport issues.

Kimmins visits Nixon’s Corner and Killea to hear about transport concerns

DAERA Minister Andrew Muir pictured with Sinéad McLaughlin MLA, Colr. Ruairí McHugh, Mayor of Derry and Strabane District Council, Mark Durkan MLA and Ciara Ferguson MLA at Jubilee House.

Environment minister Andrew Muir updates political leaders on Mobuoy remediation

Robert O'Connor pictured at the Stormont Hotel in 2021 at the launch of the independent research report on historical Mother and Baby Homes and Magdalene Laundries between 1922 and 1990.

Brigid O’Connor remembered as son urges politicians not to forget women of homes

Becca Bor, Development Coordinator at the NI Anti-Poverty Network

Anti-poverty campaigner rejects ‘false narrative’ of 'generous’ benefits system

Sinéad McLaughlin

McLaughlin and Hunter raise concerns about Magee and Coleraine campuses
Sinéad McLaughlin and Cara Hunter have met with Ulster University Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Bartholomew following the university’s announcement last month that up to 450 jobs could be lost.
Staff Reporter

Daryl McLaughlin.

Derry meat industry expert: £1m p.a. lost due to cattle with TB at slaughter

DUP MLA Gary Middleton.

Colum Eastwood commends former Council and Stormont colleague Gary Middleton

A Thai bulk carrier travelling in the crucial Strait of Hormuz was attacked March 11, with 20 crew members rescued so far, the Thai navy said. (Photo by Handout / ROYAL THAI NAVY / AFP via Getty Images)

Derry’s vulnerability to energy shocks show need for green transition, say MLAs

An aerial view of the Mobuoy dump site.

Report on draft remediation strategy for Mobuoy dump outside Derry due this week

Culmore man Finn O’Connell said: “I think it should be put to far better use in our country, probably into the healthcare system. The NHS is notorious for having a backlog of people and people sitting in A&E for eight hours at a time. “I think the extra 14 thousand should be put somewhere better, I think they get paid enough for however much they do or don't do, which I don't think is a whole pile at the minute.”

People in Derry condemn £14k MLA pay Rise as ‘absurd’ amid cuts and hardship

Sinéad McLaughlin

Significant dip in healthy life expectancy in Derry linked to inequality

Enjoying the warm up at the Aware Mood Walk at Ebrington Square, Derry, in 2016.

Aware has for 30 years improved understanding about depression, MLAs told

Derry’s MLAs at Stormont are in line for a handsome 26.8 per cent pay increase from April 1, with salaries set to rise by £14,200 from £53,000 to £67,200 in five and a half weeks.

Derry MLAs to get a £14,200 (26.8%) pay rise with salary to rise to £67,200

Senior officials at the Western Trust have said CCTV should not be overly relied upon to protect adults at risk and it would be ‘simply unacceptable’ in some care environments.

CCTV is not a ‘silver bullet’ and ‘simply unacceptable’ in some environments

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

The expenditure of millions of pounds on emergency temporary accommodation set against the continued depletion of social housing stock in Derry has been branded ‘irreconcilable and fiscally irresponsible’.

Call for ‘robust rent controls’ and moratorium on sale of social housing stock
The expenditure of millions of pounds on emergency temporary accommodation set against the continued depletion of social housing stock in Derry has been branded ‘irreconcilable and fiscally irresponsible’.
Kevin Mullan

Pádraig Delargy

MLA: My grandparents were on 1960s uni campaign, my generation may see benefits

Education Minister Paul Givan during his visit to the Naíscoil Dhoire and Bunscoil Cholmcille, Steelstown Photo: George Sweeney.

Teachers in Derry and the North secure 4% pay rise

Sinn Féin Councillor Aisling Hutton.

Derry Sinn Féin councillor urges Christmas tree recycling

Left to right: Donall Henderson (Chief Executive, Foyle Hospice), Terri Sythes (HR and Administrative Services Manager, Foyle Hospice), Ciara Ferguson (Sinn Fein MLA for Foyle), Mark H Durkan SDLP MLA for Foyle) Dr Damien McMullan (Consultant in Palliative Medicine), Sinead McLaughlin (SDLP MLA for Foyle), Annmarie Casey (Director of Nursing and Clinical Care, Foyle Hospice), Sheila Duffy (Director of Income Generation and Communications, Foyle Hospice) at Foyle Hospice following the Assembly debate on the Report on Access to Palliative Care Services.

Foyle Hospice welcomes cross-party commitment

Nazareth House Primary School

Derry MLAs raise plight of Nazareth House and St. Eugene’s due to roof problems

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

School meals are necessary for learning it is hard to concentrate when you are hungry. These increases will have a disproportionate effect on working class families.

Political opinion: Workers Party Representative calls for re-think on raising th...

MLAs Cara Hunter (on left) and Ciara Ferguson

Short-term lets and second homes ‘hollowing out' communities and hiking prices

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has said he believes ambulance waiting times at Altnagelvin have been improving.

Altnagelvin ambulance waiting times improving and ‘double waits’ at ED reducing

Derry estate agent Stephen McCarron addressing the Stormont Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee.

Stephen McCarron says planning and water constraints blocking development

SDLP MLA Mark H. Durkan, who proposed the motion, said: “Suicide prevention and saving lives should unite us all, however, and it does. It united us five years ago, when we all stood here making the same argument to fund the critical CCIS in Derry, an area with a shamefully high suicide rate.

Cross-partisan support as Derry MLAs slam CCIS closure

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

Nurses from the Royal College of Nursing union on strike at Altnagelvin Hospital in 2019. DER5119GS - 008

Derry councillor backs nurses over pay parity as potential strike action looms

A view of Downhill and Benone with Magilligan in the distance.

Tourist economy in North Derry suffering due to ‘blue-green algae’

Foyle Hospice

Foyle Hospice prescribing model to be rolled out throughout the North

The Royal Mail sorting office in Derry.

Delargy blasts ‘second-class system’ and 'delays', Royal Mail denies claims

Charles Ward speaking in the Dáil on Wednesday last.

'Huge shortfall' in Donegal homes with 382 builds when 1,200 pa needed, says TD

Education Minister Paul Givan

Blow for Culmore Primary School Integrated bid as Paul Givan rejects proposal

Gordon Lyons.

Angry exchanges as Lyons says Derry gets more arts funding than population share

The view from Ebrington Square in Derry.

Little-Pengelly: Ensuring Ebrington is ‘welcoming' at centre of transfer talk

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

'This isn’t just bad planning but bad governance'

The late Emmanuel Familola and Matt Sibanda. Pictures with permission from Scoil Mhuire and Crana College.

Matt Sibanda and Emmanuel Familola were boys with ‘warm and kind personalities'

President Michael D. Higgins at his inauguration in 2011.

Stormont calls for Irish Government to give Derry citizens Presidential vote

Magee College

Harmonising Irish university applications processes will benefit Magee, MLAs say

The A2 Buncrana Road.

Transport plan critical to Buncrana Road project won't be ready until December

Pope Francis arriving for the closing Mass for the World meeting of families in Dublin in 2018. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Pope Francis was a champion of the poor who ‘breathed life into Catholic Church’

Northlands Centre

Northlands cuts amid crisis ‘destroying communities’ in Derry ‘shameful’

Liz Kimmins

Roads minister Kimmins says £2.1bn A5 will ‘save lives’ and ‘I’m committed’

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