Mervyn Storey

Pictured at the official opening ceremony are, from left to right, chief executive of the Education Authority (EA), Richard Pengelly; principal of Islandmagee Primary School, Arlene Cambridge; Education Minister Paul Givan; chair of the board of governors, William Kane; chair of the board of the EA, Mervyn Storey and pupils, Sara-Jayne and George. Photo@ submitted

Official opening of £5.4m school 'is a truly landmark day'

Northern Ireland's Dark Hedges trees, made famous by Game Of Thrones, are "coming to the end of their natural lives", a new trust which is taking over management of the site has said

Trees made famous by Game Of Thrones ‘coming to end of their natural lives’

A teachers’ representative body has expressed concern over the appointment of Mervyn Storey as chairman of the Education Authority.

Teachers’ body concern over Mervyn Storey as Education Authority chair

Mervyn Storey at the Twelfth celebrations in Ballymoney in 2021. Photo: Steven McAuley/McAuley Multimedia

Spirit of 1974 UWC strike evoked at Independent Orange Twelfth demonstration

Planning Committee members approved the 126-dwelling development near Ballymoney’s Semicock Road (pic; CC&G/planning report)

Housing development in Ballymoney approved

Computer Generated Image of proposed development at Maine Surface Finishing showing the office building and manufacturing space to the rear. Credti: jpeplanning

New Coleraine factory will create 150 jobs at existing business site

St Patrick's Church, Loughguile

Funeral due on Wednesday for tragic motorcyclist Benny McIlhatton

European Ryder Cup Captain Darren Clarke and Headmaster of Dalriada School Tom Skelton celebrate Darren's success at the Open Championship in 2011.

Dalriada pays tribute after passing of esteemed principal Tom Skelton

The strong winds overnight from Storm Isha has brought down another large oak tree at The Dark Hedges in Ballymoney. Three trees came down overnight reducing the number from 79 to 76 now still standing

Dark Hedges fall victim to Storm Isha

DUP Councillor Mervyn Storey of Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council at the Dark Hedges near Armoy in Co Antrim. The tunnel of trees became famous when it was featured in the HBO fantasy series Game Of Thrones and now attracts significant numbers of tourists from around the world. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Northern Ireland's Dark Hedges trees could be gone in 15 years

Eleven trees at the Dark Hedges are reported to be dangerously unstable. The scene was made famous by the Game of Thrones television series.
Photo: Michael Cooper/Woodland Trust/PA Wire

Dark Hedges threat - 11 trees 'dangerously unstable' and face the chop

Sinn Fein vice president Michelle O'Neill (left) and Sinn Fein Party leader Mary Lou McDonald at the Titanic Hotel in Belfast during the launch for the Sinn Fein candidates for the NI council elections

DUP warns against unionist 'vote-shredding' in upcoming election

Stock image of PSNI badge

Dark cloud falls over Ballymoney after death of two year old in farm incident

Cllr Mervyn Storey with Linda Finlay, wife of the late John, and Cllr John McAuley

Mervyn Storey returns to politics to take late John Finlay's place on council

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson speaks in the Great Hall at Parliament Buildings, Stormont

‘Splintered unionism’ to blame for lost seats, insists DUP leader

Trevor Boyd from Ballymena is among the wellwishers saying hello to Mervyn Storey at the DUP tent at the Balmoral Show yesterday, one week after the former North Antrim MLA lost his seat. Picture by Ben Lowry

An upbeat Mervyn Storey at Balmoral says: I’ll still be there for North Antrim
The former North Antrim MLA Mervyn Storey was enjoying being at the Balmoral Show yesterday, despite losing his Stormont seat.
Ben Lowry

Former DUP MLA Mervyn Storey. Photo: Stephen Davison/Pacemaker

Mervyn Storey: we have seen a toxic brand of unionism delivering division

Mervyn Storey in News Letter footage as captured yesterday

Election 2022: Mervyn Storey loses seat after 19 years

PACEMAKER, BELFAST, 6/5/2022: An unhappy looking DUP leader, Jeffrey Donaldson with former First Minister, Paul Givan and MP, Ian Paisley at the election count for the North, South and East Antrim constituencies plus Lagan Valley and North Down in Jordanstown.
PICTURE BY STEPHEN DAVISON

ELECTION 2022: WATCH - DUP leader says unionism cannot stay divided

DUP North Antrim Assembly election candidate Mervyn Storey

ELECTION 2022: WATCH – DUP man signals united unionist party may be on the cards

Dunluce Castle, along the North Antrim coast.

Election 2022: DUP citadel of North Antrim under assault

DUP North Antrim Assembly election candidate Mervyn Storey who has condemned pro-Russian graffiti which appeared on the road at the Dark Hedges in Co Antrim, a site made famous across the world after appearing in Game of Thrones

Pro-Russian graffiti at Antrim site ‘completely at odds with local community’

Handout photo of Health Minister Robin Swann at Carnlough Fire Station, County Antrim with Sheenagh Black and members of the local community with a copy of their petition Maggies Call

Legal concerns stall ‘Maggie’s Call’ roll-out

Court Care Home in Ballymoney. Google image

'Buy-to-let' rooms at care home only one element of RQIA concern

The Queen in Portsmouth during the Silver Jubilee, 1977

Assembly snubbing Queen’s Platinum Jubilee ‘would be incredible’

The DUP is still split over whether Arlene Foster should have been removed

DUP’s divisions now in full view as members slug it out over Foster's ousting

A crowd listens to Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein speak at the funeral of the IRA man Bobby Storey at Milltown Cemetery in west Belfast last June. "The fact remains that breaches of the regulations took place at the funeral," writes Mervyn Storey. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA

Mervyn Storey: Inspectorate report is missed opportunity for full accountability
A statement from the DUP MLA and Policing Board member Mervyn Storey:
Mervyn Storey

Pacemaker Press Belfast 03-03-2017: Mervyn Storey, DUP.
Picture By: Arthur Allison. Pacemaker

Storey to consider his family before accepting any offer to be first minister

Edwin Poots MLA, one of the two candidates for leader of the DUP. The other is Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP.

Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

No comment from Poots on emergence of Donaldson as rival for DUP leader

DUP MLA Mervyn Storey hit out at the decision by Ulster University.

Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

DUP anger as health courses go to Magee - promises being broken says MLA

PACEMAKER, BELFAST, 26/6/2020: A guard of honour flanks the hearse carrying the body of leading republican Bobby Storey to his Anderonstown home in Belfast.
PICTURE BY STEPHEN DAVISON

SF publicised details of Bobby Storey’s ‘public’ wake by both email and via Face...

Sinn Fein MLA Gerry Kelly

DUP file motion calling for Gerry Kelly to be removed from Policing Board after ...

A costumed demonstrator at the first-ever Belfast 'Trans Pride' event, summer, 2019, in the shadow of St Anne's Cathedral. The News Letter was the only media which covered the gathering.

Use transgender pronouns or face possible dismissal: new guidelines for NI’s 23,...

Communities Minister Caral Ni Chuilin admitted using the car in response to an Assembly question from TUV MLA Jim Allister

Second Sinn Fein minister admits using official car to go to Bobby Storey IRA fu...

One of Arlene Foster's own party officers rebelled against the whip in today's key Assembly vote

Arlene Foster suffers unprecedented DUP backbench rebellion over bill to give mi...

Paul and Varena Creelman. Picture: McAuley Multimedia

‘Notorious’ collision blackspot in Co Antrim claims three more lives

Michelle O'Neill again refused to apologise for attending the funeral

Overwhelming cross-party Assembly vote calling for O’Neill funeral apology

Mervyn Storey MLA with Dr Paisley and Sam McConaghie, following a service in St James Presbyterian Church to mark the 100th anniversary of the Independent Orange Institution in 2008

Tributes paid to former DUP councillor Sam McConaghie - ‘driving force in the DU...

Sinn Fein announcing the new PSNI powers

Coronavirus: Sinn Fein’s politics and sluggish civil servants blamed for delay i...

Police close the Duneaney Road in Glarryford near Ballymena after a serious crash this afternoon. Pic Steven McAuley/McAuley Multimedia

Tributes pour in after young man and woman killed in horror collision

The pools at Joey Dunlop Leisure Centre in Ballymoney have been closed for three weeks

Closure of Ballymoney swimming pools to be discussed at special council meeting

Joey Dunlop Leisure Centre in Ballymoney

NI swimming pool forced to close after tiles fall from roof

The Giant's Causeway, Co Antrim

Council election: DUP seeking to consolidate grip as Ulster Unionists nip at the...

Chief Constable Geroge Hamilton during last years annual National Police Memorial Day

Warm words for George Hamilton ... but speculation about future struggles of pol...

Auditor General Kieran Donnelly. Pic: NI Audit Office/PA Wire

Warning of ‘significant hardships’ when welfare reforms take effect

The Christmas card sent out by Sinn Fein Mayor Brenda Chivers

Sinn Fein mayor accused of '˜bad taste' over Irish Christmas card

A second road traffic accident has occurred this afternoon on the junction
of the Gracehill and Bregagh Road, Armoy

Another crash at Dark Hedges days after fatality at same spot

The Dark Hedges, a scene from Game of Thrones where American Michael Munro tragically lost his life while on honeymoon with his new wife.

Dark Hedges fatality pair were on honeymoon

Scene of collision at Dark Hedges

American tourist dies after serious collision near Dark Hedges

Ulster Unionist leader Robin Swann pictured with former MLA Robert Coulter, who has died at the age of 88

Ex-UUP MLA Robert Coulter dies

William Dunlops family, including his brother Michael (back right) carry his coffin from the church after the funeral

William Dunlop funeral: '˜His life was shorter than we hoped but it was full, no...

The Riverside Road/Castlecat Road junction, Bushmills. Pic by Google

Motorcyclist aged in his 40s dies following road traffic collision

DUP Spad Andrew Crawford

DUP Spad warned Moy Park of RHI closure, at cost to taxpayers

Former Director of Public Prosecutions Barra McGrory.
Picture: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press

'˜Halt Troubles prosecutions' says former DPP

Oliver Gibson was a member of the Orange Order and Apprentice Boys

Tributes to '˜one of a kind' DUP veteran Oliver Gibson

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