News from Derry
Cruisers put road traffic accidents under focus
Have you ever wondered how the police determine the cause of a road traffic collision or the impact of a distraction on your driving ability?...
Peter embarks on marathon Ironman birthday challenge
Limavady solicitor and local rotarian, Peter Jack, will find himself having to stay in the same place for 13 hours on Thursday the 9th February without being able to leave the building!...
One-way traffic system proposed for Park Avenue
Residents living in the Park Avenue area of the city have been encouraged to have their say on proposals for a new one-way traffic system in the area....
Thinking of Clarendon Street (it was made for sharing . . .)
Urban design in Derry took a step forward this week with the publication of the Draft Design Guide for the Clarendon Street area of the city....
President to visit Rosemount PS
President Michael D. Higgins is to visit Derry’s Rosemount PS as part of the school’s centenary celebrations....
Portillo’s “amazing” journey
Former Conservative MP Michael Portillo has described the rail journey between Derry and Coleraine as “breathtaking.”...
Carcan plan to ‘neutralise’ IRA in Derry
A former top secret briefing document signed off by the commander of British Army Ground forces in Derry during Operation Motorman reveals the entire plan for the storming of ‘no go’ areas in the city. In this article IAN CULLEN explores the details of the paper which was released by the Public Records Office to legal teams acting in the recent inquest into the shooting dead of 15...
Gardai investigate Clonmany motorbike crash
GARDAI in Carndonagh are currently investigating a motorbike crash which occurred in Clonmany last week....
Attack ‘has ruined everything’ - victim
The 25 year-old woman living in the house which was attacked in Dungiven on Monday night says she is returning to her native Scotland....
Massive ‘Ras’ heading for Inishowen
The efforts of local cycling enthusiasts to promote Inishowen in a major way have borne fruit big time with the confirmation this week the biggest race in the Irish cycling calendar, the An Post Ras, will come to the peninsula this year....
Policing Board meeting despite security concerns
A meeting of the Northern Ireland Policing Board continued at Magee College during a security alert at the complex today, the Journal has learned....
Malin’s Henry Girls launch fourth album
To celebrate the launch of their fourth album Inishowen’s Henry Girls will be taking to the stage in Letterkenny this weekend with a whole host of musicians....
‘North Derry Republican Group’ claim ‘gun attack’
‘The North Derry Republican Group’ have claimed responsibility for what it described as a “gun attack” on a house in Dungiven earlier this week....
I want to meet Saville - niece
A niece of Gerald Donaghey has said she wants to meet Lord Saville “face to face” to ask him how he came to the conclusion that her uncle was “probably” carrying nailbombs when he was shot dead on Bloody Sunday....
Catherine hands over Derry’s tourism reins
After 16 years at the helm of Derry’s Visitor and Convention Bureau, the city’s tourism chief Catherine O’ Connor spent her last day in the job this week before embarking on what she’s hoping will be a happy and healthy retirement....
Urgent meeting needed over ex-army base - Dallat
SDLP East Derry MLA John Dallat is to request a meeting with the Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment Arlene Foster on the former Shackelton army camp in Ballykelly. He had asked the Minister “whether she has had any correspondence with her Executive colleagues” regarding the Ballykelly site, and if so, to detail this correspondence; and what steps she intends to take to...
£600k Dungiven recycling centre to be ready by summer
Work is expected to start in the coming weeks on a £600,000 new state-of-the-art household recycling centre in Dungiven....
Lumen Christi’s latest Oxbridge students
Three pupils from Lumen Christi College in Derry were among the successful applicants who received offers to study from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge this year. Kevin McCarthy, Roma McCluskey and Conor Kiely have all received offers for either Oxford or Cambridge University, beginning in October 2012....
Strabane shirt company collars African market
A Strabane-based shirt manufacturer is to enter the African market after franchising its business model in Ghana and Nigeria....
‘Our water will be privatised’
An Inishowen councillor has called on Donegal County Council to write to the Department of the Environment to discuss the proposed changes to the water sector in Ireland....