The driver of this car had a miraculous escape after his car smashed into the side of a lorry outside Dungiven last week.
By Orla McNicholl
orla@derrypost.com
The man escaped serious injury after his Mercedes car was involved in a collision with a lorry just after 8am.
The accident happened just outside Go service station on the Foreglen Road [...]
The father of baby Katie Maguire has branded the behaviour of health chiefs “shameful” after they refused to cover the cost of her care in a US hospital.
By Connla Young connla@derrypost.com
The seriously ill child’s dad Gary McCann spoke of his family’s bitter disappointment after health minister Michael McGimpsey confirmed his department will not off any [...]
Teacher Neil McCloy was honoured this week at one of the biggest award ceremonies in the UK.
By Orla McNicholl
orla@derrypost.com
Neil, who teaches at St. Brigid’s Primary School in Knockloughrim, was nominated for ITV Teacher of the Year and last week he was one of several finalists on the red carpet at the Pride of Britain awards.
Despite [...]
X-factor star Eoghan Quigg suffered a weekend of mixed emotions after he was forced to pull out of the Under-16 hurling championship final at the last minute.
By Connla Young
connla@derrypost.com
And hours after making it through to the next round of the hugely popular talent contest, the Dungiven starlet found out his pals back home had been [...]
A state-of-the-art play park was officially opened in Claudy at the weekend.
By Orla McNicholl
orla@derrypost.com
The £250,000 project, which is managed by Derry City Council on behalf of John Mitchell GAC, was opened by Mayor of Derry, Councillor Gerard Diver on Saturday.
The Mayor welcomed the opening of the cross community play area, which is part financed by [...]
A black swan which turned up on the shores of Lough Neagh over the weekend may have escaped from a private collection experts say.
By Connla Young
connla@derrypost.com
The elegant black bird was spotted yesterday morning paddling with a group of whooper swans at a stretch of shoreline near Ballymaguigan.
With jet black feathers and a distinctive red beak [...]
Family and friends of little Katie Maguire are set to do the ‘Full Monty’ in a bid to raise cash for her medical fund.
By Connla Young
connla@derrypost.com
The ladies night event will see a brave group of local men strip to the ‘bare essentials’ as the campaign to raise cash for the sick tot continues.
Katie is currently [...]
A Dungiven business man has warned local people to be vigilant after his shop was broken into at the weekend.
By Orla McNicholl
orla@derrypost.com
The call came after trespassers gained entry to Eurospar supermarket on Station Road in the early hours of Monday morning.
In the incident, the culprits carefully sawed a hole in the emergency exit [...]
A Limavady businessman has told how he helplessly watched thieves ransack his jeweller’s shop and make off with over £50,000 worth of goods.
By Orla McNicholl
orla@derrypost.com
The burglars, which proprietor Colin Bond believes are of eastern European appearance, forced open the shutters in the early hours of Wednesday morning and threw a boulder through the front [...]
A County Derry man has described how he is living in fear after his gay son was attacked in a vicious homophobic last week.
Civil right’s veteran Sean Ledgewood last night revealed he is too fearful of being attacked by thugs to leave his Maghera home.
The distraught father says he hasn’t walked from home into Maghera [...]
