MLAs

Liz Kimmins

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

X-Ray car

Allied Health Professionals showcase innovations improving healthcare and saving...

MLAs could be in line for a substantial pay increase.

Council reps raise concerns over wage hike for MLAs

Sinéad McLaughlin has claimed Derry has for years been treated as ‘second class when it comes to rail services’.

Sinéad McLaughlin: ‘Absolutely absurd’ Derry treated as ‘second class’ on rail

Holy Cross College.

'Hoax' email threat that led to Strabane school closures slammed by local MLAs

Pictured at the opening of the new Orchardville hub are front row l-r - staff members Grainne Bradley, Louise Macrory, The Mayor Lilian Seenoi-Barr, Cara Cash-Marley, Chief Executive with Orchardville, and Geraldine McKeever. Behind l-r are two local Orchardville participants and Lydia Lynas, Director of Employment and Community Inclusion, Orchardville.

New learning support to help people with neurodiverse conditions

Principal Clare McMenamin with local MLAs during their visit.

MLAs show unanimous support for Culmore Primary School’s integrated status bid

Maurice Bradley

Bradley calls for more funds for Coleraine campus alongside Magee expansion

Charity staff and food bank volunteers present Stormont with an invoice for the cost of inaction on child poverty

Charities demand the Assembly tackle child poverty or face 5bn bill

Derry abuse survivor Jon McCourt

Jon McCourt pleads with MLAs not to 'let victims down'

Pádraig Delargy paid tribute to Foyle Search and Rescue at Stormont on Tuesday telling MLAs how it responded to a total of 237 incidents last year.

Pádraig Delargy pays tribute to Foyle Search and Rescue at Stormont

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

Calls for homelessness action with thousands affected as Christmas approaches

Of 19,000 properties across the North unable to proceed without NI Water investment and upgrades - 5,300 are in Derry & Strabane, including The Cashel, the massive Braidwater scheme on the Buncrana Road that will involve an investment of £450m and the construction of 2,500 new homes.

O’Dowd: NI Water does not have site or planning for Coshquin Pumping Station

Local MLAs Ciara Ferguson and Mark H. Durkan.

Unadopted sites in Derry/Strabane up from 80 to 147 (59%)

A UVF flag flying in the Waterside during the summer.

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

Altnagelvin A&E

‘Urgent escalations of people being moved from beds to corridors’
Ciara Ferguson has told MLAs ‘urgent escalations of people being moved from their beds and placed in corridors’ are taking place on a weekly basis at the Altnagelvin Emergency Department (ED).
Kevin Mullan

The testimony of Shea Taylor, a young person from Derry, was read into the Stormont record this week as MLAs called for reform of the social care system in the North.

Shea Taylor provides powerful testimony on need for better child social services

The salaries associated with 270 new jobs at the Lisahally Service Centre will provide people with more money to spend in the local economy, local MLAs have said.

Salaries from 270 new jobs will give people more money to spend, say MLAs

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt

10% suicide reduction nothing to celebrate says Nesbitt

Chris Kerr, manager of Men's Action Network (MAN), which is based in Derry.

Closure of Men’s Action Network due to funding raised by MLAs at Stormont

Electric vehicle advocates have spoken of a lack of infrastructure west of the Bann and called for more investment in charge points for battery-powered car users.

Lack of electric vehicle infrastructure west of Bann raised by lobbyists

Staff at Altnagelvin are stretched beyond capacity and their safety and the safety of patients is being compromised daily, it was claimed at the Stormont Assembly on Monday.

Altnagelvin stretched beyond capacity, says MLA, who blasts ‘obscene’ waits

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

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
Marie Lindsay has warned schools face ‘astronomical deficits’ in their budgets amid a looming funding crisis.
Kevin Mullan

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'

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

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