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The First Minister, deputy First Minister and Health Minister have met with organ donation campaigners to mark significant progress in new soft opt-out organ donation legislation. Paul Givan, Michelle O’Neill and Robin Swann welcomed campaigners Dáithí, Maírtín and Seph Mac Gabhann to Stormont Castle after the Executive signed off the Health Minister’s proposed legislation on […]

Families entitled to extra support with school meals and uniforms can now apply online. Paper application forms continue to be available on request for applicants who do not have digital access. Education Minister, Michelle McIlveen said: “The Education Authority (EA) has sought to improve services for families by making it easier for them to apply for […]

Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon has announced a change to drink driving legislation which will automatically offer all those convicted of drink drive offences the opportunity to undertake rehabilitation training. The changes take effect from Monday 28 June. At present referral to the course is at the discretion of the Court however the change to the law […]

A vaccine international certification scheme will go live in Northern Ireland by – or before – 19 July, the Department of Health has announced. Work is focussed on delivering the scheme ahead of that date – potentially as early as 5 July – and should be possible providing cyber security checks are cleared successfully. Ensuring […]

Health Minister Robin Swann has welcomed June monitoring round allocations of funding for the health service. Mr Swann was speaking after the allocations were announced by Finance Minister Conor Murphy. These include £31.5m for alleviating waiting lists and £17.7m for pharmaceutical pressures. The Health Minister stated: “The additional waiting list monies will be targeted at long waits […]

Special Educational Needs (SEN) funding proposed by the Minister for Education, Michelle McIlveen has been allocated £35.7 million in the June monitoring round process. A further £3.3 million to support education with a number of COVID-19 pressures was also confirmed by the Finance Minister Conor Murphy today as part of the monitoring allocations. The Minister said: “Today’s […]

The Executive has agreed allocations of over £220 million including funding for waiting lists, Special Educational Needs and the Victims Payment Scheme. Announcing the allocations which are part of the June 2021 monitoring round process, Minister Murphy said: “The Executive is committed to ensuring our health service has the funding it needs as it continues to […]

The Irish Government has announced €3m in funding to progress work on the cross-border Narrow Water Bridge, which will link the Mourne mountains area with the Cooley peninsula. The money from the Shared Island Fund will see the project brought to tender stage, based on the current design of the bridge and existing planning permission. […]

A three-year blueprint for rebuilding cancer care in Northern Ireland has today been published by Health Minister Robin Swann. The recovery plan sets out a series of short and medium term initiatives to enhance services badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Department is currently finalising a 10-year Cancer Strategy for Northern Ireland.  The plan […]

Saoradh party members target two Crown Force “normalisation” events on Tuesday [June 22] with protests taking place in Newry and Meigh in South Armagh. Both events were disrupted as a result of peaceful protests. In just over a fortnight this brings to a total of five RUC events that we have successfully cancelled or disrupted […]

Slamming the upcoming planned twelfth parades Saoradh’s Newry representative Stephen Murney said “As Covid restrictions ease and people get back to a sense of normality, sectarian bigots are straight of the traps to don bowler hats and sashes, the regalia of hate. “Local residents from various parts of Newry have contacted our office recently with […]

A firefighter and one other person have been taken to hospital and a house has been destroyed after a fire caused by an oil tank explosion in Newry on Sunday. It’s after two oil tanks ruptured at Camlough Park before the fire spread to four terraced houses in what a spokesperson for the Northern Ireland Fire and […]