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The new Regional Suicide Prevention Care Pathway has been launched in the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust. The pathway has been developed as part of the Towards Zero Suicide (TZS) initiative. Speaking at the launch, Chief Medical Officer, Professor Sir Michael McBride said: “Today is World Suicide Prevention Day and this year’s theme is ‘Creating […]

Speaking on the 46 th Anniversary of her father’s murder by the Glenanne Gang, Aontú Deputy Leader and Councillor for Mid Ulster, Denise Mullen, has spoken about the continued pain and trauma that victims of the Glenanne Gang and their families are forced to endure – still fighting for justice and truth for their loved […]

Education settings will no longer be asked to carry out contact tracing of pupils following an agreement between the departments of Education and Health. Starting tomorrow, contact tracing in schools will be taken forward primarily by the Public Health Agency’s (PHA) Contact Tracing Service, which brings Northern Ireland into line with that of England, Scotland […]

Following a recent external recruitment process, Health Minister Robin Swann has appointed Professor Siobhan O’Neill as the Mental Health Champion for Northern Ireland. Professor O’Neill is the current Interim Mental Health Champion and Professor of Mental Health Sciences at Ulster University. She is one of Northern Ireland’s leading experts in the field of mental health, […]

Health Minister Robin Swann has announced the allocation of the first tranche of grants to organisations providing vital support for carers.  Almost £600,000 of the £4.4m Support for Carers Fund has been awarded to groups across Northern Ireland. It’s part of a £24m package of funding made available in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to […]

Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey has urged students to check if they could be entitled to benefits by using the Department for Communities’ Make the Call Wraparound service. Minister Hargey was speaking as students began returning to college and university at the start of the academic year. The Make the Call service aims to connect people […]

A Newry man who is accused of burgling a house and robbing a set of house and car keys will face Crown Court proceedings next month. The 36-year-old appeared at the city’s Magistrates’ Court for the purposes of a preliminary enquiry (PE), the legal process during which a case is referred to the higher court. Daryll […]

East Belfast Ulster Unionist MLA Andy Allen MBE has called on the Department for the Economy to clearly set out  clarity on the timetable and what contingency plans it has in place should there be any further delays in rolling out the High Street Voucher scheme. Mr Allen said: “The High Street Voucher (stimulus) scheme was […]

Responding to comments by European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic in Queen’s University recently Jim Allister said: “While Sir Jeffery Donaldson said he was “encouraged” by his meeting with Mr Sefcovic yesterday, comments by the EU Commission’s Vice President in QUB will be of no comfort to Unionists. He explicitly claimed that the Protocol was […]

While there can be doubt that the Northern Ireland Protocol is causing unnecessary difficulties, politically and economically, the solutions are not to be found in brinkmanship, political posturing or in threats to collapse the Assembly. As with most things in Northern Ireland politics, reactions to Jeffery Donaldson’s announcement have been based largely on an ‘us […]

NI Water is calling on the public to take care when using pesticides in the amenity sector – in the garden, on the golf course or other public spaces. Amenity pesticides are defined as those used in the urban environment (defined as any non-agricultural, horticultural, forestry or home or garden use), to maintain amenity and […]

Aontú Leader Peadar Tóibín TD and Aontú Deputy Leader Cllr Denise Mullen have criticised the Stormont Establishment for driving up the cost of living, increasing poverty and inequality, and with wages stagnating. Cllr Mullen: “35% spike in gas prices. 10% increase in house prices. 10% hike in electricity prices. Stagnating wages. Increasing inequality and poverty. […]