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1 week ago | 
derryjournal.com | Kevin Mullan
Charles Ward says older people in Donegal are being left standing at the roadside as packed buses pass because they haven’t booked tickets online. The Donegal TD also claimed wheelchair users are being left isolated in their homes due to a lack of accessible transport in the county. Speaking in the Dáil on Wednesday he said the absence of rail services in Donegal means improving bus services is essential.
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1 week ago | 
derryjournal.com | Kevin Mullan
A precision-targeted form of radiotherapy cannot be delivered at Derry’s North West Cancer Centre (NWCC) despite the equipment being available because it would cost over a quarter-of-a-million pounds a year to run. Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has confirmed that the NWCC at Altnagelvin has the necessary equipment to implement Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy (SABR) however delivery of this service is dependent on funding for additional staff.
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1 week ago | 
derryjournal.com | Kevin Mullan
A new draft Anti-Poverty Strategy – the first in the North – published by the Communities Minister Gordon Lyons this week has received a lukewarm response from some Derry poverty campaigners and politicians. Mr. Lyons said the draft document set out a long-term, deliverable cross-government approach to tackling poverty.
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1 week ago | 
derryjournal.com | Kevin Mullan
Derry MLAs have called on the Executive to recognise the strategic importance of the arts and to provide local organisations such as Echo Echo to be provided with stable funding. SDLP MLA Sinéad McLaughlin said: “Many of us swell with pride when people from outside Northern Ireland talk of the region's cultural assets, including shows such as 'Game of Thrones', 'Blue Lights', 'Line of Duty' and, of course, 'Derry Girls'.
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1 week ago | 
derryjournal.com | Kevin Mullan
Around 250 people are expected to take part in an Apprentice Boys parade in Derry on Saturday. The ABOD Walker Parent Club have advised the Parades Commission its demonstration will leave Rossdowney Park at 11am before making its way to the Memorial Hall. The Churchill Flute Band and Star of the Roe Flute Band will take part.
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1 week ago | 
derryjournal.com | Kevin Mullan
Pearse Doherty has renewed calls for the abolition of the local property tax noting houses prices in Donegal have rocketed by 30 per cent over the past four years alone. “The reality is that the local property tax for a person in my county relates to a property worth €190,000 in 2021. Property values in Donegal have increased by 30 per cent since that time. The current price is €247,000,” said the Donegal Sinn Féin TD.
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1 week ago | 
derryjournal.com | Kevin Mullan
Mark Durkan has said he has no confidence in the Executive delivering its social housing targets with over 6,000 waiting for a home in Derry alone. "We were told that the Programme for Government would be ambitious. We were actually told that it is ambitious, promising nearly 6,000 social homes by 2027. "However, this year, we will struggle to build barely 1,000 — half the target that the Executive set.
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1 week ago | 
derryjournal.com | Kevin Mullan
With over 8,000 children in Derry in receipt of free school meals a local MLA has encouraged families to check their food and uniform entitlements in advance of the next academic year. Figures released to Sinn Féin MLA Pádraig Delargy show 8,380 pupils in the Foyle constituency were entitled to free school meals this academic year. The highest entitlement was in Ballyarnett (2,761), followed by the Moor (2,061), Waterside (1,490), Foyleside (1,439) and Faughan (629).
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1 week ago | 
derryjournal.com | Kevin Mullan
Jasmina Cibic got the UN treaty bodies to send her tears. "They dispatched them to Slovenia. We had to find new codes for the Customs because they had to come from Switzerland,” Cibic confides ahead of her first solo show in Ireland, ‘The Gift Ecology’ which launches at Void Art Centre on Saturday. “I took microscopic photographs. They look like terrains, worlds, with buildings. Each is a drop which crystalises. They are then printed in brass.
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1 week ago | 
derryjournal.com | Kevin Mullan
Three officers were struck by missiles during disorder in Derry on Monday night. An 18-year-old male was arrested following rioting at Nailor’s Row close to the city centre. The PSNI said masonry and fireworks were used to attack police between 9.30am and midnight. "Three officers were injured - two officers were struck by masonry and one officer was struck by a firework.
