A motion, put forward by SDLP Councillor Shauna Cusack at a Full Council Meeting on Wednesday, April 24, proposed contacting the Minister for Infrastructure, John O’Dowd, to request an “immediate full survey and audit of the conditions of their directional and safety signage, with a view to implementing immediate improvements here.” The motion added: “This Council acknowledges the poor, dirty, absent and even dangerous condition of many of our road safety measures, such as signage and bollards....
Sara Duddy, Advocacy Support Worker with Pat Finucane Centre in a brief press conference held alongside the relatives of Annette McGavigan and Billy McGreanery immediately after the decisions were confirmed late on Monday afternoon, said that they had been waiting on news all day as to whether or not the prosecutions for murder would go ahead. Annette McGavigan was 14 years old when she was shot dead by a member of the Royal Green Jackets Regiment in the Bogside on September 6, 1971, as she...
Question: My brother and his wife live in the same county as my parents. We grew up in a large house just outside a country town and have all moved to Dublin. We still visit my parents regularly and we all enjoy staying with them. Our kids often go down to see their grandparents and stay by themselves. My parents are in their early 70s, still hale and hearty, and my brother is proposing that he and his wife move in and adapt the house slightly to accommodate his family — he has one child and his...
Elected representatives have now backed a motion proposing that the Council write to the Minister for Health Robin Swann, Minister for Education Paul Givan, and Minister for Finance Caoimhe Archibald, to “urgently develop and present a business case” with clear reduction targets for assessment wait times. The motion was tabled by SDLP councillor Lilian Seenoi-Barr at the Full Council Meeting on Wednesday, and Derry & Strabane Council will seek collaboration from all other Councils across the...
Coventry’s work on reunification and helping more children return home from care was highlighted at Parliament last week.
It follows recent Mr Harris’ recent comments that people of his generation were more familiar with Berlin and Paris than they were with places like Derry and Belfast. At the April Full Council meeting this week, Sinn Féin councillor Paul Boggs proposed that the council writes to Mr Harris, asking that he establish a citizens’ assembly on unity “as a matter of urgency”. “Young people on this island are leaving in droves to seek better opportunities elsewhere,” Councillor Boggs said. “And the...
First responders at the meeting called for a decrease of responding vehicles
Credit still matters as we age. Here’s how you can help parents or other older adults check in on theirs.
Credit still matters as we age. Here’s how you can help parents or other older adults check in on theirs.
More than a quarter of new parents do not use their right to take time off work to look after their children, new figures show. Parents have been entitled to nine weeks’ absence from work since August 2022, but on average mothers take 6.9 weeks while fathers claim 6.2 weeks. Financial concerns were the main reason for both men and women to forgo their allocation, research by Robidus, a subsidiary of insurance company a.s.r., found. Parents receive 70% of their
Conversations about money often require sensitivity and patience, especially when the person across the table is an older parent.
We’re rewinding back to 50 years ago in Derry and the wider north west here to May 1974, when the Ulster Workers’ Strike saw the British army take over fuel depots and petrol stations during the Ulster Workers’ Strike. Essex factory workers and nurses were also on strike locally, while Bishop of Derry Edward Daly was being honoured just three months into his post.