Dozens of people have attended a public meeting to oppose plans to remove dozens of remains from a County Derry graveyard.
Over 100 Parishioners at Saint Columba’s church at Straw, near Draperstown, packed into the Rural College last Tuesday to hear a number of speakers voice their opposition to the controversial plan.
The meeting was called after [...]
People across County Derry are being urged to attend a fundraising event to raise cash for the people of Gaza.
The event, which has been organised by People Before Profit, hopes all cash raised will be used to buy essential supplies which will be shipped into the region.
Gaza is currently under a strict embargo enforced by [...]
A group set up to help the grieving relatives of people killed in road traffic accidents is urging people to get behind a major fundraising event.
Road Angels Legacy was set up last year by a group of relatives whose loved ones have died as a result of accidents on our roads.
The group’s website allows people [...]
Old friends are set to be reunited at when former pupils of a popular south Derry school meet later this month.
A number of former pupils of Saint Mary’s Grammar School, Magherafelt, have organised a reunion for people who attened the school September 1993 and 2000.
One of the organisers, Fiona Hughes, urged people to come along.
She [...]
A 46-year-old County Derry man who was killed in a motorcycling accident at the weekend has been described as a “decent” person.
Gary Grieves from Claudy died after the Yamaha bike he was riding was involved in a collision with a Volkswagon Golf on the Mayogall Road outside Portglenone just after 8pm on Saturday evening.
It is [...]
Big hearted truckers did their bit for charity this week when they presented a special cancer unit with over £13,000.
The cash was raised for the Palliative Care Centre at Antrim Area Hospital by the Mid Ulster Truckers during a weekend fundraising drive in May.
A cheque for £1,000 was also given to the Maghera based Riding [...]
A County Derry man has organised a ladies football tournament in remembrance of his late wife who passed away earlier this year.
Gerry McCrystal from Desertmartin will hold the charity memorial event next weekend to remember his wife Ann, who passed away suddenly on January 11.
The 50-year-old mother-of-four’s death came as a massive shock to her [...]
The parents of a seriously ill Magherafelt toddler say their daughter’s health has gone dramatically downhill under the care of local health authorities.
Katie Maguire’s parents say the tot has regressed since she received a life saving operation in America two years ago.
Gary McCann and Mekila Maguire raised £250,000 for their daughter, who will turn three [...]
A small County Derry community is coming to terms with the murder of a man at a house in Castledawson.
Michael McLaughlin was stabbed after an altercation at a flat at Hillhead Road around 10.30 on Sunday night.
The 24-year-old, who is originally from Toome, had only lived in the flat for a short time.
The County Derry [...]
A County Derry GAA club has crossed the community divide to help a local church raise cash for a new roof.
In a remarkable show of cross community solidarity, Michael Davitt’s GAA club in Swatragh has thrown open its doors for a special concert to help raise cash to replace the roof on Killelagh Church of [...]
