Gary Middleton

Infrastructure Minister John O'Dowd

There are enough guns and bombs in the world, John O’Dowd tells MLAs

Executive parties have defended themselves after Foyle Pride boycotted them for banning puberty blockers for children. (Left to right) Justice Minister Naomi Long, First Minister Michelle O'Neill, deputy First Minister Emma Little Pengelly and Health Minister Mike Nesbitt during a Stormont Executive press conference. Photo: PA

Foyle Pride boycotts all parties for banning puberty blockers

There are fears the hospitality sector in border areas could be decimated as tourism and weddings head to the Republic in search of substantially cheaper prices. Photo © Rossographer

Call to cut VAT in half over fears Republic's new tax will decimate hospitality

Racist and sectarian graffiti is believed to have been spray-painted onto the exterior walls of a number of unoccupied new-build house in the Church Brae area of Londonderry

Foyle MLA Gary Middleton condemns graffiti attack in Londonderry

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood during a press conference where he announced his resignation as party leader. Picture date: Thursday August 29, 2024. Photo: Mark Marlow/PA Wire

Eastwood oversaw the 'greening' of the SDLP

The SDLP has complained about 'pop up' religious services being held in Londonderry's Ebrington Square

DUP hits out at bid to ban religious services at Londonderry's Ebrington Square

SDLP leader Column Eastwood said at 2:20am that he was confident he was going to retake Foyle.

Eastwood confident he is on course to retake Foyle

DUP MLA Gary Middleton is looking to the next election in Foyle already.

Foyle: 'DUP campaign is about building for the future'

Colum Eastwood, SDLP leader and Westminster candidate for the constituency of Foyle, takes a selfie with his canvassing team in the Creggan area of Londonderry.  Pic: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Foyle the arena as SDLP and SF battle for supremacy

Health Minister Robin Swann in the Great Hall at Parliament Buildings at Stormont, walking into the Assembly Chamber after recess of the debate on the Budget

DUP accuses UUP of 'irresponsible' vote as rest of Executive backs plans

The scheme to turn the A5 into a dual carriageway was first approved in 2007 but has been beset by delays

Plea to scrap A5 legal challenges to save lives

Diane Forsythe at Stormont – she will vice chair the finance committee

Sinn Fein to chair Windsor Framework committee

Protesters during a pro-Palestine demonstration outside the BBC offices in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Picture date: Saturday October 21, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story ULSTER Israel. Photo credit should read: Peter Morrison/PA Wire

Is SDLP trying to 'out-green' Sinn Fein over Israel?

Ulster University has denied that it is dropping the name Magee College from its Londonderry campus.

University denies dropping Magee College name

DUP MLA Gary Middleton

PSNI to investigate sectarian hate crimes at two bonfires in Londonderry

Apprentice Boys Governor Graeme Stenhouse and Lieutenant Governor Worthington McGrath lay a wreath at the War Memorial in the Diamond

Apprentice Boys of Derry parade hailed a success

Thousands of Apprentice Boys have paraded through Londonderry to celebrate the events of August 1689 and the relief of the city from the longest siege in British military history.

Johnny McNabb

The Battle of the Somme memorial parade passes through east Belfast on Saturday evening.

Somme sacrifice of 1916 marked with parades and commemorations

Up to 200 redundancies are being sought at Northern Ireland's Firstsource Solutions after the company launched a consultation process with staff, the ‘News Letter’ understands

Up to 200 Northern Ireland redundancies being sought by Firstsource Solutions

Left to right: DUP MLAs Gary Middleton and Keith Buchanan

50 years on: IRA murder of three policemen remembered

Firefighters tackled almost 50 emergency calls relating to flooding after the north-west was battered with heavy rain

Firefighters rescue people from cars and homes amid floods

The book in question

Republican complaint about free Queen’s jubilee book for kids ‘petty’ says MLA

Richard Neal, four left, beside Liz Truss, pictured with a bipartisan US congressional delegation after meeting the Foreign Secretary last weekend

Richard Neal has learned nothing about NI, says DUP’s Gregory Campbell

Sinn Fein Vice President Michelle O'Neill speaking to the media in Belfast city centre on Wednesday

DUP: Michelle O’Neill’s demand for border poll criteria proves we were right

Gary Middleton at the count centre with DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and supporters

‘Family time’ for MLA after marathon count

Padraig Delargy topped the poll in Foyle.

Election 2022: Sinn Fein’s Padraig Delargy leads the pack to seize seat in Foyle

A view of the Peace Bridge in Londonderry at the heart of the Foyle constituency

ELECTION 2022: Unionism in fight to hold onto single seat in Londonderry

News Letter editorial

Weakness towards illegal republican displays merely emboldens them

News Letter editorial on Tuesday April 19 2022:

Editorial

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson: Sinn Fein should be honest on border poll

First Minister Paul Givan and Deputy first Minister Michelle O'Neill at Ebrington today.

Work begins on Ebrington luxury hotel in Londonderry

Trucks leaving Larne Port.

DUP and Sinn Fein remain on collision course over NI Protocol checks

Sean Napier (right) and his solicitor Paul Farrell arrive at the Royal Courts of Justice in Belfast for a hearing in his legal challenge against the DUP's boycott of cross-border political meetings. Picture date: Tuesday December 7, 2021.

DUP ‘openly defying’ court ruling

Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 6th December 2021 Caravan owners take their protest to Stormont, east Belfast, to highlight the ongoing issues they have with some site owners. . Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

NI caravan owners take protest to Stormont

Belfast businessman Sean Napier's legal challenge to the DUP's boycott of North South Ministerial Council meetings pictured at Belfast High Court

Legal challenge against DUP north south boycott to focus on December meeting

Foyle DUP MLA Gary Middleton hit back that those burning buses are to be condemned. And he added: “Michelle O’Neill stood at a fake wall on the border with a sledgehammer and said she would smash any north-south border even though none exists. The only party engaging in amateur dramatics is Sinn Fein.”

Sinn Fein accused of ‘amateur 
dramatics’ on protocol

Gary Middleton MLA

DUP hits back at Sinn Fein’s ‘inflaming tensions’ claim

People take part in a dissident Easter Monday wreath laying ceremony in Derry City cemetery, Creggan, Northern Ireland. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Dissident republican Easter Monday ceremony passes without incident in Londonder...

An ampty classroom

Education Minister pledges to end confusion over phased school return

Preserving our Britishness and the integrity of the UK should matter more to unionist politicians than Stormont, if operating the NI protocol is its price

Jim Allister: As Peter Robinson says choice may be Stormont or protocol

Boris Johnson and Arlene Foster at Stormont on its return, in January 2020. Mrs Foster and her party are fiercely criticising his Irish Sea border yet as recently as last month she described it as a "gateway of opportunity". A DUP minister's department built it, the DUP voted to ban British soil from NI, and the DUP in 2019 agreed to a regulatory border

Onus on DUP to explain way forward, after their petition

Edwin Poots following his appendix surgery last month

DUP’s Edwin Poots to step down as minister tonight for cancer surgery and recupe...

Images of the McCourt funeral

Unionist politicians condemn crowds attending Eamon ‘Peggy’ McCourt funeral

DUP MLA Gary Middleton. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Nationalist council in second NI centenary snub: DUP delegation urges Equality C...

Executive fails to clarify whether current NI covid restrictions end on Thursday...

Stephen Nolan

SF Covid fund debacle: Claim of a behind-the-scenes ‘war’ over release of inform...

Sinn Fein's ex-Foyle MP Elisha McCallion

Sinn Fein repaid £30K Covid support mispayment on Tuesday ... just ahead of maj...

Schools will be closed for two weeks instead of one over half term and are due to reopen next Monday

DUP and Sinn Fein on collision course over reopening of schools

Martina Anderson has been strongly criticised by all four of Sinn Fein's Executive partners

Sinn Fein’s Martina Anderson blasted for ‘disgusting and offensive’ tweet on ter...

Economy Minister Diane Dodds

Diane Dodds under fire over make-up of new economic advisory group

Colum Eastwood celebrates victory in Magherafelt.

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood takes Foyle seat with one of the biggest majorities a...

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood greets Sinn Fein's Elisha McCallion

SDLP ‘revival’ in Foyle as Colum Eastwood unseats Sinn Fein’s Elisha McCallion

The famous Derry Walls are owned by the Honourable Irish Society and managed by the Department for Communities

Fears Derry Walls could become ‘political football’ if council takes ownership

The MOT backlog shows little sign of improvement despite the action taken to date by the Driver and Vehicle Agency (DVA)

MOT backlog: MLAs plead for rethink after exemptions for drivers ruled out

Former Foyle People Before Profit MLA Eamon McCann. Photo: Lorcan Doherty / Presseye.com

Eamonn McCann: Unacknowledged anti-Semitism is revealed in pub video

DUP Policing Board member Gary Middleton. Picture: Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Youth club event involving PSNI cancelled after republican demo threat

Border Communities Against Brexit launch a new billboard at Stormont and announce a day of protest on March 30 against a hard border

Brexit: Planned border protests an attempt to ‘create disruption’

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