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Rural Affairs Minister Edwin Poots has visited several projects in counties Fermanagh and Tyrone to see first-hand how a £7.5million programme is benefitting rural businesses and communities. Thanks to his Department’s Northern Ireland Rural Development Programme, Fermanagh and Omagh Local Action Group (FOLAG) has been investing the money into village renewal projects, rural businesses and […]
Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey has announced that her Department will provide match funding for 2022/23 to European Social Fund (ESF) projects who currently deliver services on behalf of her Department. The ESF projects aim to help and support people most removed from the labour market to overcome major barriers to social inclusion and entering employment. The pandemic […]
SDLP councillor Karen McKevitt has called on public representatives to show greater sensitivity when talking about incidents from the North’s troubled past. She was speaking after a Tweet from Alliance councillor Michael Long made a dismissive reference to Bloody Friday, where nine people were killed and over 100 injured in IRA bombings in Belfast in […]
Sinn Féin Councillor, Oonagh Magennis has said it is ‘shameful’ that the British Treasury has refused the request from Declan McAleer MLA to meet the agriculture committee to discuss concerns around restricting red diesel fuel entitlement. The Slieve Gullion councillor said: “I was shocked and disappointed that the treasury refused to meet the agriculture committee […]
Speaking to an anti-Protocol rally in Markethill, TUV leader Jim Allister said:- “The basis of unionist cooperation, as set out in the Ulster Day Declaration, is, in its words, the “unalterable position that the Protocol must be rejected”. “The necessity for such rejection has not changed. It is because through the Northern Ireland Protocol the […]
Responding to allegations that our local schools are segregating children, Aontú Education Spokesperson on Education and Derry East Rep Gemma Brolly stated; “A little like the “Integrated Education Bill” President Higgins remarks at the National Women’s Council Peacebuilding Conference were rather biased and insulting. As someone who came through the current system and now […]
February’s Municipal District meeting saw Sinn Féin Councillor Joanna Byrne question the Director of Services for Housing on the available resources within his department allocated to the carrying out of house inspections on properties in the private rental sector. Cllr Byrne highlighted concerns that the number of inspections had dramatically dropped over 2020 and 2021 […]
A warning of a pending health tsunami has come from Workers Party representative in Newry and Armagh, Nicola Grant. The link between poverty, stress and ill health are well documented”, Nicola said “Newry and Armagh already has the seventh highest number of deaths from circulatory disease There can be no doubt that low pay, precarious […]
Sinn Féin MLA Liz Kimmins has announced that her party colleague, and the Sinn Féin spokesperson on health, David Cullinane TD, will be visiting Newry next week. The Liz Kimmins MLA said: “Sinn Féin have made health a priority in Newry and Armagh, in the north and across Ireland. The pandemic has further exposed the […]
Speaking after the passage of the Aontú’s Hospital Parking Bill through Second Stage in the Dáil today, Aontú Leader & Meath West TD Peadar Tóibín has called on all parties in the Dáil to ensure speedy passage of the Bill through the Oireachtas to ease the pressure on thousands of Patients who are paying thousands […]
SDLP Upper Bann MLA Dolores Kelly has called on public representatives to show greater sensitivity when talking about incidents from the North’s troubled past. She was speaking after a Tweet from Alliance councillor Michael Long made a dismissive reference to Bloody Friday, where nine people were killed and over 100 injured in IRA bombings in […]
Sinn Féin MLA Liz Kimmins has said the planning system needs to be improved in order to help build homes, improve environmental protections and help economic development. The Newry and Armagh MLA said: “A recent Audit office report highlighted the failure of the planning system to deliver for the economy, communities and the environment. “Two […]
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