Department for Infrastructure

Owners and managers of almost 180 reservoirs across Northern Ireland could face criminal prosecution, including prison sentences, under legislation being considered at Stormont today.

Reservoir owners could face jail if they breach new regulations

Newry's Merchants Quay during a 'blackout'. Photo by Newry.LN

Christmas lights black out concerns as Newry faces 'overspending' challenge

Wind turbine. Picture: Local Democracy Reporting Service

Fresh wind farm plan reduces proposed number of turbines at east Antrim site

Noah Donohoe

Donohoe case failings could lead to further deaths, court warned

Work to begin on A5 ‘as soon as we can’, says Kimmins

Appeal Court quashes ruling that A5 project cannot proceed

Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins

Concerns have ‘intensified’ over NI Water governance, MLAs told

Belfast City Airport has launched a public consultation on draft proposals for a potential £200 million investment programme aimed at preparing the airport for a significant increase in passenger numbers over the next 15 years

'Exciting time': Belfast airport launches consultation on £200m investment plans

Antrim and Newtownabbey councillors are demanding answers over the lack of grass cutting in the borough

Councillors to write to DfI to demand answers over grass cutting

Department considering action on Billy Wright flags

Almost two thirds of drivers are against plans to cut the number of pay and display parking meters in Northern Ireland, in a move towards ticketless payments according to new research. Picture: Matt Cardy/Getty Images.

Two in three drivers oppose plans to cut pay and display machines

Petrol bomb thrown at police during Bogside unrest

Finance Minister John O’Dowd has announced £27.4 million in capital funding from the Local Growth Fund to boost regional growth, support businesses, regenerate communities and improve connectivity

£27.4m Local Growth Fund boost for NI businesses, innovation and connectivity

An image of the existing wind farm, circulated by the PR firm for the application

Application made for additional seven wind turbines in Co Londonderry

Lidl Northern Ireland has welcomed ministerial approval for its long-awaited second store in Londonderry, describing the decision as a "significant milestone" after more than six years in the planning system

Lidl hails 'significant milestone' as £8m NI store finally gets green light

Noah Donohoe had set off on his bicycle from his home in south Belfast on the evening of Sunday June 21 2020 planning to meet two friends in the Cavehill area in the north of the city

Donohoe inquest expert defends objectivity as firm earned over £100,000 from DfI
An expert witness has defended their objectivity at the inquest into the death of Noah Donohoe as it emerged his past firm has made more than £100,000 from Stormont's Department for Infrastructure (DfI).
By Claudia Savage, Press Association

Artist impression of the proposed £250m arc21 residual waste project

Letter: Risks from inaction on NI waste infrastructure

The Department for Infrastructure is reducing the number of pay & display machines in Belfast Lisburn and Newry by almost half. Photo: Google maps.

Cash payment concerns as pay & display machines halved

Serious and fatal motorcycle casualties had fallen significantly from 187 in 2002 to just 82 in 2015, but numbers have steadily increased since then

Letter: Motorcyclists deserve safer roads in NI

Beth Harding and Johnny McCrystal from WWCT with P3 pupils at Broughshane Primary School

Broughshane pupils and staff take part in Walk to School Week

Infrastructure minister Liz Kimmins has come under fire over the financial situation facing Translink. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

SF minister under fire over Translink cuts but critics avoid fare freeze call

Overgrown grass verges are a serious danger for road users. Obscured sightlines create extremely hazardous situations on many of our roads and have, unfortunately, led to fatal and very serious collisions

Letter: Grass cutting policy review call

Signage at the The storm drain near the Premier Drive/Northwood Road area of north Belfast where Belfast teenager Noah Donohoe was found.

‘Not foreseeable’ someone would access culvert in which Noah Donohoe died

A senior civil servant has denied that he entered a culvert five years after Noah Donohoe’s body was found in it in order to demonstrate the schoolboy could have exited the tunnel.

Witness denies entering tunnel to prove Noah Donohoe could have got out

The Department for Infrastructure (DfI) has paid out more than £1 million in compensation to motorists for the past two years running

Rise in pothole claims pushes payouts over £1m for second year, says minister

The culvert close to where Noah Donohoe died was at Northwood Road in north Belfast

DfI should have looked at practical means to stop culvert access, inquest told

The Adam Street bonfire pictured in July 2021, with the New Lodge interface area behind it. Photo: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Adam Street bonfire: Council calls for 'interventions' from Stormont departments
Belfast Council is calling for “interventions” from three Stormont departments at the site of a Tiger’s Bay loyalist bonfire, following a Sinn Fein push at a behind-closed-doors meeting.
Iain Gray

A senior official has denied a suggestion that the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) “didn’t have a clue” whether a hatch covering a culvert was locked when Noah Donohoe entered it.

Department ‘didn’t have clue’ if culvert where boy died was locked, inquest told

Fiona Donohoe, the mother of 14-year-old Noah Donohoe, arrives at Belfast Coroner's Court, for the inquest into the death of her son, who was found dead in a storm drain in north Belfast in June 2020, six days after he went missing while cycling to meet friends.

Drain where Noah Donohoe was found was in good condition, inquest hears

UFU Deputy President John McLenaghan, right, with Minister Liz Kimmins and UFU Policy Officer Daniel Toft, left.

UFU welcomes minister’s clarity on A5 starting date

Trucks and tractors on O'Connell Street in Dublin, where fuel protesters had been blockading the street since Tuesday, April 7; a string of similar protests have been mooted for Northern Ireland on Tuesday, April 14 (Cillian Sherlock/PA Wire)

DUP leader and UFU president sound note of caution on Tuesday fuel protests

The existing junction where the M2 (left), M3 (top) and Westlink (right) meet

York Street Interchange limbo as Liz Kimmins 'taking time to consider options'

Utility companies dig up Northern Ireland roads more than 50,000 times a year. Pic: Jacob King/PA Wire

Utility works contributing to deterioration of NI roads network, MLAs say

Department officers’ time should be freed up to fix potholes among other things

Letter: Ask fewer questions, get more work done

A CGI image of the planned Lagan Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge in Belfast, which has put on hold by Stormont's Department for Infrastructure pending the outcome of a legal case involving an unrelated road.

DfI branded 'unaccountable and highly dysfunctional' as A5 row drags on

Letters to editor

Letter: Unsustainable system of governance

Councillor Pat Catney welcomes the development of the former Charles Hurst site in Lisburn. Pic credit: McAuley Multimedia

A former Lisburn car dealership site approved for social housing development

Potholes make driving in the countryside particularly challenging

Letter: As a farmer, MLA pay rise has left me disillusioned

49,000 defects have been reported on Northern Ireland roads in the last three months

Minister rejects ‘ludicrous’ claim she is neglecting pothole repairs

The Kilrea Bridge will fully reopen to all vehicles at 5.00pm on Wednesday 18 February, following the successful completion of the main repair works.

Kilrea's Bann Bridge to open to ALL vehicles

Artist impression of Lidl on Londonderry's Crescent Link from 2022

Lidl NI calls for action as £8m Londonderry store in six-year planning limbo

The Sinn Fein Minister for Infrastructure Liz Kimmins has admitted that an illegal billboard in Newry did carry her party's posters - and that her department wrote to her own party office in Newry to press for its removal. Photo: NI Assembly 16 February 2026.

Minister admits her department wrote to SF on illegal billboard

Bobby Singleton, deputy chief constable of the PSNI, said on the Nolan Show that even if a flag is legal it can still be used to harass someone

Regarding Union flags as harassment is 'a dangerous idea' says Wilson

Carla Lockhart MP questioned the Infrastructure Minister's spending priorities.

Over £7m to tackle potholes in spending boost - but will it be enough?

A CGI image of the Enniskillen Bypass. On the cards since 2006, it's now on hold again.

Brakes hit on £190m of road projects while minister appeals A5 verdict

A van splashes through a flooded road at Nutt’s Corner in Co. Antrim following Storm Chandra.

Chandra caused 300 road obstructions and 500 floods in NI

Storm Chandra caused extreme flooding in the River Lagan in Dromore, co Down today, causing flooding to several businesses and the public park.

Almost a month's rain falls in one day, says Met Office

Ten cars have been damaged in one night by a major pothole on the Lurgan Road out of Banbridge, the local MP has warned. Pictured is the pothole and some of the cars.

Ten cars damaged in one night by pothole, says MP

Diane Dodds MLA has hit out at yet more delays to a £130m improvement scheme for the A1 dual carriageway from Hillsborough to Loughbrickland.

Brakes put on delayed £130m road scheme yet again due to Stormont court appeal

DfI 'optimistic' Bann Bridge in Kilrea will fully re-open in February.

DfI 'optimistic' that Bann Bridge could be fully re-opened next month

Although conditions aren't expected to get as bad as during the New Year's cold snap, seen here in Co Antrim, a Stormont department has warned of ice of untreated roads overnight. Photo: Stephen Davison/Pacemaker

Drivers warned to take care as sub-zero temperatures hit overnight

Although conditions are not predicted to see a repeat of the New Year's cold snap, seen here, the Department for Infrastructure has warned drivers to watch out for ice on the roads on Thursday morning. Photo: Stephen Davison/Pacemaker

Ice warning for roads in north and west of province on Thursday morning

Department of Infrastructure of Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins who has said 20 mile per hour speed zones are a "no-brainer."

20mph zones a ‘no-brainer’ says minister as speed review begins

SSE has submitted a planning application to the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) for its proposed Tattymoyle Wind Farm in County Tyrone

'Urgent action needed': Plans submitted for new NI 10-turbine wind farm

Politicians complained of grit reserves not being delivered to an entire council district and workmen only refilling individual boxes that have been reported as empty, arguing the Department for Infrastructure needs a common sense approach to getting the basics right.

New Year freeze meant grit boxes emptied in hours: DfI

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