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A 33 year old man has been charged with being concerned in the supply of class A drugs, being concerned in the supply of class B drugs, conspiracy to fraudulently import class B drugs and entering into an arrangement to acquire criminal property. He is expected to appear at Newry Magistrates court this morning, Tuesday […]
Health and social care staff, and all those who work in the NHS here, have been congratulated by the Worker Party’s spokesperson in Newry and Armagh, Nicola Campbell. “More than half a million people here have received their first Coronavirus vaccination jab and thousands more will be vaccinated by the end of July”, Nicola said. […]
Slieve Gullion area Sinn Féin Councillor Aoife Finnegan has said the announcement by Bank of Ireland that the Crossmaglen Branch which is one of the 103 branches across the country which will close, is a huge blow to the local economy but first and foremost to the workers and their families. The local Councillor said: […]
Health workers in Northern Ireland are joining staff across the NHS calling on Rishi Sunak to recognise the work they’ve done to protect lives and fund a decent pay rise in this week’s Budget, says UNISON today (Monday). More than 60,000 health care assistants, porters, operating theatre staff, nurses, caterers, ambulance staff, cleaners and members […]
Households will be able to complete their 2021 Census which will help shape where essential resources, funding and services will be focused over the next decade. Census Day is 21 March. For the first time, the Census will be predominantly online and it is expected that the majority of householders will choose to complete their […]
The Department of Health has confirmed changes to visiting arrangements for all care settings from Monday 1 March. The four UK Chief Medical Officers have recommended that the Regional Alert Level should move back from Level 5 to Level 4 with immediate effect. As a result, the visiting restrictions for all care settings across Northern […]
Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey has launched an eight week public consultation on a new Strategy for Sport and Physical Activity. Minister Hargey said, “We want to produce a strategy for sport and physical activity that is ambitious, has been co-designed and takes account of the wide range of views. We need to ensure we can […]
The drive to administer first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccine across all of Northern Ireland’s care homes has been completed, Health Minister Robin Swann has confirmed. Trust vaccination teams have been visiting care homes since the vaccination programme commenced in December. The last remaining homes have now been visited, the programme schedule has allowed […]
Education Minister, Peter Weir and Health Minister, Robin Swann have jointly launched the Children and Young People’s Emotional Health and Wellbeing in Education Framework. An investment of £6.5million annually will be provided to support mental health and wellbeing within the education sector. The Framework will be supported by a number of initiatives including: REACH Programme […]
Finance Minister, Conor Murphy has expressed concern over the Levelling Up Fund. Responding he said: “The fact that this fund will be controlled from Westminster shows blatant disregard for devolution and is unacceptable. “If the British Government were serious about ‘Levelling Up’ then they should be providing a Barnett Consequential to enable funding decisions to […]
Education Minister Peter Weir has announced the dates for results of CCEA 2021 examinations. The Minister has today confirmed that students will receive CCEA AS and A level results on 10 August 2021 followed by the release of GCSE results on 12 August 2021. The Minister said: “Given the importance of A level results for […]
Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey has announced a series of virtual job fairs being piloted by the Department for Communities over the next few months. The innovative pilot programme has been introduced as an alternative to physical job fairs which have been suspended due to Covid-19 restrictions. The virtual job fair series will include regional, sectoral […]
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