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The Amgen Irish Open will return to Northern Ireland in 2024 with Royal County Down Golf Club hosting this year’s event from 11-15th September with organisers encouraging supporters to utilise public transport. Translink has worked with partner organisations including the DP World Tour, Tourism NI, Newry, Mourne & Down Council, PSNI and the Department for Infrastructure […]
Education Minister, Paul Givan, has welcomed that almost 10,000 children have been registered for his Department’s new Northern Ireland Childcare Subsidy Scheme within just 2 weeks of it opening. The Scheme has been introduced to ease the financial pressures on households and to enable more parents to remain in or return to work. The Minister […]
SDLP Newry & Armagh MLA Justin McNulty has said the Executive have no plan to solve the current housing crisis. Newry & Armagh MLA Justin McNulty said: “It has been clear for some time that we are dealing a serious housing crisis in the North and the failure to respond to these warning signs have left us in a […]
Phased opening from Sunday 8th Sept – passengers to check timetables before travelling Construction work on the new world class Belfast Grand Central Station is at a stage which will soon allow the public to have the opportunity to see inside Ireland’s largest state of the art integrated transport hub for trains, coaches and buses. From […]
Newry & Armagh MLA Liz Kimmins has welcomed the recent announcement of improved rail services for Newry. The Sinn Féin MLA who along with her Party colleagues had consistently lobbied for Translink to increase the number of services from Newry, including a plan to almost double the services offered for commuters at peak times,said, “I […]
Education Minister Paul Givan has welcomed the success of Northern Ireland’s students receiving their GCSE results today. Today’s results, awarded to over 32,000 GCSE students across Northern Ireland, reveal that 82.7% of students received grade C/4 and above while 31% received grade A/7 and above. This year marks the completion of the return to pre-pandemic […]
Slieve Gullion area Sinn Féin Councillor Declan Murphy has appealed to motorists to be conscious of their speed. Cllr Murphy was making his comments after ‘Slow- Kids at Play’ road safety signs were erected in Clougharevan Park and Woodvale housing development in Bessbrook. The local Councillor said, “Speeding is one of the four main causes of […]
Ulster Unionist Party Finance Spokesperson, Dr. Steve Aiken OBE MLA, has commented on the current crisis in policing funding, and the seeming lack of support from the Department of Justice for the Chief Constable. Speaking as a news story on the Justice Permanent Secretary writing to Jon Boucher broke, Dr. Aiken commented. “The funding crisis […]
Justice Minister Naomi Long has commented on media reporting in relation to a leaked correspondence. The Minister also makes clear the role of the Accounting Officer in NICS departments. The Minister said: “The Permanent Secretary in any Department is the Principal Accounting Officer for that Department. This carries with it responsibility for ensuring the regularity and […]
By Donal McMahon The Department of Education (DE) has urged Northern Ireland councillors to hold school principals to account over “rocketing” absenteeism of pupils. The department’s recent statistics show 98K pupils are at “chronic or severe chronic” absentee levels with “serious attitudinal” change of post Covid parents to be challenged in the new school year. […]
The officers of the Ulster Unionist Party have today set out the process to select a new Party leader. Members may seek election as leader based on the party standing orders. The closing date for those seeking to stand for election will be 4:30pm on Friday 30th August. An Extraordinary General Meeting will be held on […]
A recommended pay uplift from the Pay Review Body of 5.5% has been endorsed by the new UK government for NHS England. No clarification has emerged yet on a funding stream for devolved governments to support our pay rounds. In the meantime, UNISON members in England are being consulted on this PRB recommendation. No indication […]
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