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Mrs. Joyce Logue, vice-chair, Review of the RE Core Syllabus (second from right) and Hollybush PS principal Feargal Friel at the Stormont Education Committee. Also pictured are Francine Walls, St Patrick's College, Maghera and Professor Noel Purdy, chair of the Review of the RE Core Syllabus.

Joyce Logue proud of ‘pluralistic’ draft RE syllabus

Historic Boom Hall in Derry. Brendan McDaid

Plans to restore Boomhall greenlit

Boomhall in the early 1900s. The house will be restored to its original state.

Boomhall plan approval 'brings renewed hope'

MP Colum Eastwood and Foyle Hospice Chief Executive Donall Henderson at Westminster.

Eastwood says Foyle Hospice care should not have to rely on donations

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

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

Housing Executive investment in Derry City and Strabane District Council area during 2025/26 amounted to £51.18m.

NIHE interim CEO Catherine McFarland says body invested £51.18m in 2025/26

Magee College

Magee numbers expected to hit record 6,750 – a 27% hike since 2024: Archibald

Economy Minister Dr Caoimhe Archibald is pictured at Invest NI’s new North West Regional Office in Derry’s prestigious Ebrington Plaza with Kieran Donoghue, CEO, Invest NI and Aeidin McCarter, Head of Regional Business for the North West at Invest NI.

Archibald expects Derry jobs figures to ‘tick upwards’ with new Invest NI office

Mark H Durkan. Photograph by Declan Roughan / Press Eye

20 Derry/Strabane groups receive £702k from Community Infrastructure Fund

Soldiers in Derry on Bloody Sunday.

Lyons reminded of Bloody Sunday after he slams British Army jobs fair opposition

Mark Gillespie (left), with Western Trust colleagues meeting with Health Minister Robbie Butler at Altnagelvin Hospital recently.

Western Trust and Derry MLAs welcome investment in Endometriosis healthcare

Queen's Quay

Liz Kimmins gives go ahead for the replacement of Queen’s Quay

Carla Lockhart from the DUP outside Drumcree Parochial Hall in Portadown. Peter Morrison/PA Wire

Carla Lockhart quits DUP

The average price of a house in Derry and Strabane fell marginally to £211,716 in the third quarter of 2026 but remains at a level not seen since the months before the property crash of 2008.

Average Derry house price dips to £211k but still at high not seen since crash

Sinn Fein First Minister Michelle O'Neill (front), accompanied by party colleagues (left to right) John O'Dowd, Aisling Reilly and Caoimhe Archibald speaking to reporters in the Great Hall of Parliament Buildings, Stormont on Monday. David Young/PA Wire

'I will not be deterred' - O'Neill

DUP MLA Julie Middleton

‘Disgraceful’ hotel incendiary attack put lives at risk says Middleton
The dispatch of a viable incendiary device to the Ebrington Hotel last week was branded a ‘disgraceful’ attack that put lives at risk by DUP MLA Julie Middleton at Stormont.
Kevin Mullan

City of Derry Airport.

APD potentially adding up to £30 on cost of Derry-Dublin return flight

Young participants in the Derry Halloween Carnival Parade 2026. Photo: Lorcan Doherty.

Derry Halloween 'a huge success'

Councillors in Derry have passed a motion calling for the council to work with pubs, clubs and hotels on the roll-out of glass and bottle covers to protect people from drink-spiking.

Council to work with pubs and clubs on protective covers to stop drink spiking

Orangemen make their way from Drumcree Church as police form a barricade to prevent them entering the Garvaghy Road.

Nationalist and socialist councillors in Derry welcome Garvaghy Road ruling

Foyle SDLP MP Colum Eastwood. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

Eastwood welcomes Irish Govt body on unity

Martin Reilly

Derry council to lobby Executive on economic abuse with 1/6 women suffering

A special train will leave the Waterside train station for Dublin on Sunday, November 8, when Derry City FC face Waterford in the FAI Cup Final.

Steve Bradley: Cup Final train gives early taste of what’s ahead

Racist and sectarian graffiti that was daubed on a home in the Fountain.

‘Thugs’ behind racist and sectarian graffiti in Fountain roundly condemned

First Minister Michelle O'Neill meets with locals on the Garvaghy Road. Picture date: Wednesday September 30, 2026. PA Photo. The planned Orange Order parade on Sunday was stopped by police, who were concerned about the scale of a mass protest on part of the proposed route - the predominantly nationalist Garvaghy Road. Photo credit should read: Mark Marlow/PA Wire

'The days of treating people like second-class citizens are over'

First Minister Michelle O’Neill. Liam McBurney/PA Wire

DUP blocks joint engagements with First Minister Michelle O'Neill

Shauna Cusack

Seamus Cusack murder raised by niece as council opposes British Army jobs fairs
Independent councillor Shauna Cusack spoke of the murder of her uncle Seamus as she backed a motion opposing the participation of the British armed forces at job fairs in Derry.
Kevin Mullan

Mayor Councillor Grace Uí Niallais

Councillors 'disgusted' at those who posted incendiary device to hotel

(left to right) Joanne Bunting MLA, deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly, DUP leader Gavin Robinson, DUP deputy leader Michelle McIlveen and Education Minister Paul Givan. (Liam McBurney/the Press Association)

DUP party officers to meet amid ongoing fall-out over Drumcree dispute

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey leaves 11 Downing Street with the Budget Box. (Photo by CARLOS JASSO / AFP via Getty Images)

Budget 2026: Executive to get an extra £270m through Barnett formula

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey poses with the Budget Box as he left 11 Downing Street. (Photo by Dylan Martinez / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

£100 energy payment, fuel freeze extension and tariff cut for beans & kerosene

Local rail campaigners Into The West have welcomed the huge demand for Translink’s special train to Dublin for next weekend’s FAI Cup Final.

Demand for FAI Cup Final train provides glimpse of rail future: Into The West

Area Commander of Derry City and Strabane, Chief Superintendent Gillian Kearney.

Derry police say dissident republicans may be responsible for Ebrington device

Darren Guy, Chair, Policing and Communiity Safety Partnership., Derry and Strabane.

Derry PCSP Chair condemns Ebrington attack

File photo dated 19/10/26 of the legal representative for Portadown District Lodge 101 and loyalist spokesperson, Jamie Bryson, speaking to the media, with Timothy Gaston MLA (left), outside Belfast High Court. (Liam McBurney/Press Association)

Judgment expected on challenge to Bryant’s Drumcree parade ban

Hospital waiting room.

368 people left Altnagelvin A&E before treatment

Seán Brown

British Government fighting order forcing it to hold Seán Brown inquiry

The Department for Infrastructure’s (DFI) new Transport Strategy 2035 sets out the goal of decarbonising transport by reducing private car journeys, switching to zero and low emission fuels and encouraging greater public transport use.

40% of social housing tenants can’t access car but suffer worst traffic impacts

File photo dated 13/06/23 of Bridie Brown, the widow of murdered GAA official Sean Brown, holding a picture of him, outside the Royal Courts of Justice in Belfast. The UK Government has been ordered to hold a public inquiry into his murder. No-one has ever been convicted of his murder. Issue date: Tuesday December 17, 2024.

Bridie Brown unable to travel to hear appeal of Seán Brown public inquiry case

Liz Kimmins

DfI updates 300 landowners whose land is vested for Strabane-Ballygawley A5

Colum Eastwood MP and Colr. Catherine McDaid meeting with school representatives.

Road safety review outside schools welcomed

UUP Alderman Darren Guy

Cars smashed up with golf clubs in what residents say was sectarian attack

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

Plans for a new £832,000 Hazelbank play park are progressing with the submission of a planning application for the long-anticipated new facility.

Plans for new Hazelbank play park progressing

Economy Minister Dr Caoimhe Archibald is pictured at Invest NI’s new North West Regional Office in Derry’s prestigious Ebrington Plaza with Kieran Donoghue, CEO, Invest NI and Aeidin McCarter, Head of Regional Business for the North West at Invest NI.

Invest NI secures new office in Derry's Ebrington

Bernie Good, Briege Gallagher and Rose Curran.

IN PICTURES: Solemn Novena of Healing at St Columba's Church Long Tower

Ian Luney

Potential to generate £0.5bn for economy and 5,500 jobs at Foyle Port by 2036

Pádraig MacLochlainn condemned the IRA murder of prison officer Brian Stack as ‘absolutely wrong’ in the Dáil this week and said a ‘litany of failures’ in an An Garda Síochána’ into the killing was repeated in the aftermath of the loyalist murder of Eddie Fullerton in Cockhill in 1991.

MacLochlainn: ‘Failures’ in Stack probe repeated after Fullerton murder

Elm Park

Plight of Buncrana homeowners affected by defective blocks and flooding raised

Aisling Hutton

Hutton calls for new initiative to prevent drink spiking

Archbishop Eamon Martin

Bishops led by Archbishop Martin declare ‘migration is good' for Ireland

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

Altnagelvin A&E

Under pressure Altnagelvin ED shows need for public service investment: Boggs

Councillor Emma McGinley.

Views of children on new Carnhill play park important

An elevated view shows mourners standing closely around rows of Palestinian flag-draped shrouds during a mass funeral amid rubble in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on October 1, 2026. Gaza Civil Defense said the remains were among those of 105 people recovered from beneath the rubble of the Al-Taj residential complex and surrounding buildings in the Al-Yarmouk area, which were destroyed in Israeli strikes on October 25, 2023. The remains were taken for burial at Sheikh Radwan cemetery after the funeral. (Photo by Faiz Qreqa / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)

Derry conference to confront Gaza complicity

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