Deirdre Hargey

Sinn Fein's Deirdre Hargey speaking to the media following a meeting with the head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, Jayne Brady, at Stormont Castle in Belfast. Picture date: Thursday August 17, 2023. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Revenue-raising proposals are ‘punitive and sinister’, Sinn Fein says

Emma Little-Pengelly, next to Deirdre Hargey on BBC1's The View

Sinn Fein's Deirdre Hargey declares that 'ransom politics does not work'

Energy price hikes

Gas and electricity price hikes to kick in

Irish language campaigners protesting outside Stormont back in May

Irish language: Stormont Executive in breach over strategy

Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi, with CEO Judith Owens, at Titanic Belfast, during a visit to Belfast to discuss the cost-of-living. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Joint taskforce set up in bid to deliver energy bill discount in NI

Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi, with CEO Judith Owens, at Titanic Belfast, during a visit to Belfast to discuss the cost-of-living. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Chancellor and Stormont ‘looking at solution’ to energy bill worries

Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi is to meet NI Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey on Wednesday

Cost-of-living crisis: ‘Workaround’ sought to get £400 energy payment to NI hous...

Minister John O'Dowd is addressing flooding concerns in Strabane.

Work on ‘interim’ flood plan to start says Minister John O'Dowd

From left: John Kelly, CEO, Belfast Distillery Company; Communities Minister Dierdre Hargey; Economy Minister Gordon Lyons; Infrastructure Minister John O'Dowd, and Mel Chittock, Interim CEO of Invest NI, at the investment announcement at Crumlin Road Gaol. The major investment includes plans to regenerate the A Wing of the Crumlin Road Gaol into the J&J McConnell's Distillery and world-class visitor experience, and to create 49 new jobs. Issue date: Thursday August 4, 2022.

Crumlin Road Gaol to become new distillery with 49 jobs

Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey joins preparations for the 2022 Belfast Mela - the first in two years due to the pandemic.

Belfast Mela festival returns bigger than ever after two year pandemic break

One of the properties damaged by flooding in the Eglinton area following heavy rain on Saturday evening

Call for emergency payment to be triggered after heavy flooding

Councillors push for ‘special meeting’ to be brought forward

DUP turns on senior council officials after land deals report

Dr Louise Crowley of the School of Law, University College Cork (UCC) speaking during the Northern Ireland Bystander Approach Conference 2022 in the Long Gallery in Parliament Buildings at Stormont

‘Simple actions, not superheroes, needed to end violence against women’

Letter to the editor

Delay in allocating the £36 million Sub-Regional Stadia fund is a scandal

Jamie Bryson

Bryson appeal in ministers’ bonfire ruling case rejected
Loyalist activist Jamie Bryson has lost an appeal against being denied permission to judicially review two Stormont ministers behind a failed legal attempt to force police into removing a contentious bonfire.

Cost of living payments

Workaround found to deliver £650 payments to help with rising cost of living

Jim Frame, Pietro Amarello, Simon Dobson, John Lyttle, Beth Hagan and Courtney Wilson. The new attraction has created 15 new jobs for people with disabilities

Refurbishment of historic windmill creates 15 new jobs for people with disabilit...

Deirdre Hargey

Emergency pandemic group re-established

Rhys McClenaghan

Minister hopeful of resolution to allow gymnast to defend Commonwealth title

AN LGBTQQIABLM+ flag; a gay pride rainbow incorporating the pink and baby-blue of the transgender movement, plus black & brown for Black Lives Matter

Some angry LGBT activists want to silence debate on sexuality and gender

Following a motion from Sinn Fein, outgoing Speaker Alex Maskey said in a letter to MLAs that the purpose of Monday’s recall was to elect a speaker

Sinn Fein’s recall of Stormont will not change anything, says DUP

Whilst there are 54 members of the Commonwealth... there are atually 77 flags under which Commonwealth athletes can compete (pictured above, representing smaller countries which are part of bigger ones)

Gymnastics body sets out rationale for shock block of Northern Irish competitors

Edwin Poots with his wife Glynis at the count centre at Titanic Exhibition Centre, Belfast

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Election 2022: Poots takes South Belfast seat but memories of Stalford hurt

Leo Varadkar was speaking at the Retail NI Future High Streets Summit

Political relationships ‘not where they should be’, Leo Varadkar tells summit

Leo Varadkar. Photo: Brian Lawless/PA

Political relationships ‘not where they should be’: Leo Varadkar

Glyn Roberts, Retail NI chief executive, Helen Wall, Retail NI vice-President, Conor Burns MP, Minister of State for Northern Ireland and Julie Galbraith, head of Real Estate in Northern Ireland at DWF Law

NI’s vision for the regeneration of high streets
Five ministers from across the UK and Ireland outline their vision for the regeneration and transformation at the Retail NI Future High Streets Summit

Pat Catney emerges from the chamber jubilant after his Period Poverty Bill passes.

Bill passed to make period products free in schools

Children play football beside Solitude which is home to Cliftonville FC in north Belfast.

Sinn Fein minister accused of failing football over stadia funding delays

Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey pictured with Nadene Caldwell, Toni Leigh Finnegan and Julie Nelson after announcing that she has made £100,000 available to help promote female sport through football.

Communities Minister announces significant funding support for women’s football

Glentoran FC has been promised £10m to redevelop The Oval.
Pic Colm Lenaghan / Pacemaker

Hargey: legal impediments need to be overcome for football stadiums

Minister Deirdre Hargey (centre) with Prof Malachy O Neill from the Irish language panel and Helen Mark from the Ulster-Scots panel.

Panel proposes targets for number of Irish speakers within 20 years

Plans for Coleraine FC were among those caught up in the football funding row

Football stadia funding row: Minister says she is attempting to progress scheme

The memorial to the three dead IRA men at Clonoe O’Rahilly’s GAA club

DUP tells Deirdre Hargey to clarify stance on sports clubs celebrating terrorism

Coleraine manager Oran Kearney

Oran Kearney left frustrated as clubs are left in limbo over funding delay

Children play at a dilapidated Solitude stadium where Henry McDonald is a lifelong Cliftonville fan. There was better value football matches there some days than from highly paid stars at Goodison Park

Henry McDonald: Fans on both sides agree football stadiums are a disgrace

Larne FC owner Kenny Bruce has invested heavily in the club. Picture by Arthur Allison / Pacemaker Press

Football funding row: Legal action still a possibility

Irish League fans throughout the country have united to let their feelings be know after much-needed stadium funding hit the buffers again. PICTURE: David Cavan

Irish League fans unite to make their voice heard after funding impasse

Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey. Photo: George Sweeney

Sinn Fein minister expresses hopes of ‘unlocking’ funding amid sports controvers...

Brandywell as seen via Google Maps

Shelving football stadium grants ‘has shafted Republic of Ireland league squad D...

NIFL CEO Gerard Lawlor

NIFL given assurances Sub Regional Stadia Programme will 'proceed as planned'

The proposed redevelopment of Coleraine Showgrounds would see a community hub created beside a North West Regional Stadium

Sporting community need to stand united to reverse funding decision: Irish Leagu...

NIHE housing stock. Picture: PressEye

Rent freeze announced for NI Housing Executive tenants

Glentoran FC has been promised £10m to redevelop The Oval.
Pic Colm Lenaghan / Pacemaker

Irish league clubs anger at ‘unforgiveable’ treatment

Irish FA Chief Executive Officer, Patrick Nelson

Football in Northern Ireland needs investment says IFA CEO Patrick Nelson

Mason McGrandles and Caoimhin McBride play football beside Solitude which is home to Cliftonville FC in north Belfast.

Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Sinn Fein ministers accused of ‘sectarian decisions’ over stadium funding

Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey

Anger as minister halts £36m stadium allocation pending sign-off

Glentoran boss Mick McDermott

Mick McDermott says politicians need to take note

Firmus gas prices had already doubled since October, but a further hike of 34% has been announced.

‘Much more to be done’ for those struggling with gas price hike

Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey

Minister gives £475,000 to new Vibrant Business Destinations scheme in Belfast

David Goodwin, captain, Belfast Giant, Jeff Mason, assistant coach, Belfast Giants, and Carla Magee, Ice Academy participant. A group of 15 local young people laced up their skates for the first time at The SSE Arena as the fourth Odyssey Ice Academy officially got under way with the Stena Line Belfast Giants. Picture: Kelvin Boyes, Press Eye

Belfast venue the home for popular Odyssey Ice Academy programme

The bonfire in the loyalist Tigers Bay Area.

Ministers in bonfire case should be prohibited from ‘solo-runs,’ court hears

Signage in a bistro window in Belfast asking customers to practice social distancing and to wait to be seated.

Restrictions could be eased and self-isolation period cut

A one-off payment of £200 will be made to around 280,000 eligible people in Northern Ireland.

Who is eligible for the £200 winter heating scheme payment?

The scheme would mean direct payments to hundreds of thousands of households, said Deirdre Hargey

Executive to consider £55m scheme to help with home heating costs