Oktoberfest 2024

Launch of the BAPS breastfeeding mural

Shropshire Festival's Oktoberfest Returns for 2024

Gordon Lyons brands ‘utter nonsense’ claim £6.5m on Derry temporary housing is mere ‘sticking plaster’

Oktoberfest 2023

Sheep keeping guard atop Crocknasleigh on the spectacular Rosguill peninsula in Donegal

The example of history-making mayor of Derry and Strabane Lilian Seenoi Barr – the first black mayor in the North –  was hailed at Westminster this week as MPs discussed increasing representation of black and minority ethnic representatives at Stormont.

Gregory Campbell has complained not a single question from an Irish MP made it onto the Order Paper for Northern Ireland questions this week. 

Fog over Derry

Christmas Tree in Carndonagh 2024

Expenditure on expensive off-contract agency nurses across the north’s health service has been reduced by £121m, according to Western Trust Chief Executive Neil Guckian. 

Nostalgia: The Maiden City board game - Derry's own take on Monopoly

‘Real demand-capacity gap’ in dementia places ‘overwhelming reason’ for delayed discharges at SWAH and Altnagelvin

42% spike in red flag referrals and hike in fractures having impact on elective waiting lists: Guckian

Do you think Christmas is starting too early?

Campbell laments ‘massive increase’ in poverty among families with children not ‘having enough food’

Gregory Campbell has called for hotels to be phased out as accommodation for refugees and asylum seekers waiting for their claims to be processed.

People are forgoing operations because they can’t afford to take time off work to undergo procedures, Chief Executive Neil Guckian has suggested. 

Neil Guckian has said the importance of a pay award for health staff cannot be overstated with the Western Trust ‘haemorrhaging staff’ to Donegal and Sligo.

Cast interview for 2024 panto Aladdin

Christmas lights switch on 2024

Christmas Craft Fair in Derry Guildhall

Derry city centre & Ebrington Square

An otter (madra uisce) tucking into a fluke (leith) for her/his breakfast in the Pennyburn in Derry on November 22, 2024

Amach pop up shop in Foyleside

Gregory Campbell has welcomed the British Government’s pledge of £3billion a year in military aid to Ukraine, saying the country ‘needs help to hit back at Putin now’.