Nichola Mallon

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

A computer-generated image of the would-be York Street scheme (produced some nine years ago); the scheme remains in abeyance

York Street Interchange 'virtually impossible due to Climate Change Act'

An image released by Dalradian from the County Tyrone site it intends to mine for gold and other critical minerals.

Gold mine company welcomes start of public inquiry into '$30 billion' project

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'

Warren Stephens - the US ambassador to the UK

Delays over gold mine project harming NI’s reputation, US ambassador warns

Stormont's economy minister Caoimhe Archibald.

Assembly Speaker tells Sinn Fein minister to offer ‘facts not opinions’

Northern Ireland’s electricity grid operator, SONI (System Operator for Northern Ireland), has announced the appointment of Nichola Mallon as its new head of corporate affairs. Credit SONI

NI grid operator appoints former Infrastructure Minister to senior adviser role

A Westminster committee is probing issues around the Windsor Framework.

Logistics UK chief Nichola Mallon says Windsor Framework 'oversold'

Business representatives told the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee that the Windsor Framework was “an improvement” on previous post-Brexit trade arrangements but there were still challenges. (File image)

New Brexit rules risk leaving ‘gaps on shelves’ in Northern Ireland by July

File photo of Jacqueline McParland (centre of top table), Senior Commissioner at The Planning and Water Appeals Commission at Strule Arts Centre in Omagh, during the public inquiry into the controversial planning application for the Dalradian Gold Mine project at Greencastle, County Tyrone

Almost half a million spent so far on public inquiry into gold mine

An image, from Dalradian, of what it envisages the mine site looking like

Long-awaited public inquiry into gold mine in the Sperrins now just days away

'How can they organise Irish unity? They can't organise a p**s-up in a brewery'

Alliance Party leader Naomi Long today told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, sitting in Belfast, that the structures of the five-party Stormont executive made 'co-operation and collaboration more difficult' when dealing with the pandemic

Stormont Executive Covid meetings were chaotic and embarrassing – Long

A map of the York Street interchange from the 2012 launch of the project.

‘Another 11 years’ until York Street interchange in Belfast is built

The bustling Dublin airport now handles the third largest number of passengers of any UK and Ireland airport. Northern Ireland, with three airports, has none that can compete with it

Ben Lowry: If Stormont took hard decisions NI airport and roads would be better

David Cameron (Getty)

Lords demand answers from David Cameron about NI / GB drift
David Cameron has been sent a list of questions about the Windsor Framework by members of the House of Lords.
Adam Kula

Lorries being checked at Larne port. Photo: Pacemaker

Strike action at NI ports will show reality of Irish Sea border: TUV

Completion of A6 Dungiven bypass

A6 road upgrade will 'cut journey times and improve safety'

Nichola Mallon on the BBC's The View in early 2023; she has said her outfit Logistics UK is 'cautiously optimistic' about the Windsor Framework

SDLP minister-turned-lobbyist faces down tough Windsor Framework criticism

Rubbish along the A1 dual carriageway near Newry

Major NI road labelled a ‘rubbish disgrace’

A computer-generated image of the proposed facility.

Arc21 group to legally challenge planning refusal for Mallusk incinerator

The planned zone of development (in red - with the link road in dashes through the middle)

Plan to grow Lisburn: 'It feels everything is being done to hinder this'

Nichola Mallon, head of trade and devolved policy at Logistics UK

Logistics UK meets with senior ministers to discuss NI Protocol

Ballymena MOT centre

‘Radical moves’ needed to clear NI's MOT logjam

Jamie Bryson

Bryson appeal in ministers’ bonfire ruling case rejected

Brian McAvoy, Chief Executive of Ulster GAA, Ciaran McLaughlin, President of Ulster GAA and Tom Daly, Chairman of Casement Park Stadium Development Project Board

Residents’ legal challenge against Casement Park redevelopment is dismissed

A computer generated image of the proposed facility in Mallusk.

Indaver working with arc21 councils after Mallusk incinerator plans refused
The company behind plans for a waste treatment facility in the Boghill Road area of Mallusk says it is continuing to work with councils in the arc21 area to consider the next step.
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SDLP leader Colum Eastwood and his new Assembly team talk to the media in the Great Hall at Parliament Buildings, Stormont.

Picture: Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Colum Eastwood says undemocratic for SDLP to be in ‘zombie executive’

Sinn Fein’s Caral Ni Chuilin and Gerry Kelly celebrate their election

Election 2022: Uphill battle for SDLP’s Nichola Mallon in North Belfast

Ballot boxes are opened at Titanic Exhibition Centre, Belfast

Election 2022: SF confident of top position while TUV could make breakthrough

Eddie Lynch, Commissioner for Older People for Northern Ireland

Alliance Party and SDLP back calls for NI inquiry into Covid in care homes

An electric vehicle charging point

Private investment in electric cars welcome as NI tries to address issues

Casement Park, Belfast.

Residents say new Casement Park will be a ‘hulking mass’

Photo by Photo by Darren Kidd/Presseye

New start up Weev plans £20m electric vehicle infrastructure network for Norther...

Urban north Belfast spreads out beneath Cave Hill

Election 2022: Unionism’s vote share has ebbed away in North Belfast for years

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the £120m pilot scheme would 'save countless lives'

Rwanda plan slammed by parties in Northern Ireland

UUP candidate for east Belfast Andy Allen.

Photo by Jonathan Porter / Press Eye.

Parties put forward proposals to tackle cost-of-living crisis

A computer-generated image of the proposed Hightown incinerator on the outskirts of Glengormley, Newtownabbey – just to the north of Belfast

It is wrong for NI to dump its waste overseas - especially on Third World

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Arc21 waste incinerator legal challenge still possible, hints DUP MLA

An artist's impression of the proposed treatment facillity

Mallon bins waste incinerator plan

One proposed image of how the bridge will look

SDLP minister – acting on her own – gives green light to the next stage of Louth...

Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon cuts the sod on the new Belfast Transport Hub along with Translink Group Chief Executive Chris Conway, Darrell McGuckian, Operations Director at Farrans SACYR JV and Alejandro Mendoza Monfort, Operations Director UK (Sacyr)

Work underway on city transport hub

Infrastructure Minister visits Wrightbus to view progress on journey to Net Zero Public Transport. Pictured are Ian Gillot (Group Director Parts and Service Wrightbus); Kirsty McBride (Wrightbus Finance Director), Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon, Nicola McCloskey (Wrightbus HR Director) and Neil Collins (Wrightbus Managing Director)

Mallon views new ‘green fleet’ of buses

The plans for Bangor were approved more than a year ago by the council

Green light at last for £50m Bangor regeneration project

Nicola Mallon

Cost of Translink bus and rail tickets to be frozen

Dessie McKenzie, who lives in Boho and runs the local pub, stands beside one of the flooded roads in the area

Residents in Co Fermanagh plead for help over repeated flooding

Tributes were paid in the Northern Ireland Assembly for DUP MLA and Deputy Speaker Christopher Stalford. The 39-year-old, who represented south Belfast since 2016, passed away suddenly at the weekend.
DUP MLA colleagues make their way into the Assembly Chamber where tributes were paid. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Christopher Stalford: MLAs from across the house pay tribute

Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon

Mallon opens third financial support scheme for the bus and coach sector

Minister Nichola Mallon is pictured with Chris Conway, Translink Group chief executive and representatives from Farrans Sacyr JV, GRAHAM and Babcock

Mallon announces main works for Belfast Transport Hub to commence

The feasbility study to get Phase 3 of the Londonderry to Coleraine rail line back on track is now complete

Minister committed to rail improvement for North West

The bonfire in the loyalist Tigers Bay Area.

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

A plan view of the proposed £500m expansion of Lisburn to the south of the city, next to the Sprucefield Roundabout.

Developer laments eight month delay in £500m ‘city expansion’

Avoid a burrr-st pipe this winter with advice from NI Water watersafe.org

Are you ‘lagging’ behind when it comes to protecting your pipework?

Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon on the Comber Greenway

Plan announced to light up popular traffic-free route

Nichola Mallon urged people to continue with existing Covid advice on boosters, hygiene and social distancing

Northern Ireland Covid passport rules legally enforceable from Monday

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