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SUMMER 2025: The Handy Wee Guide to Derry (digital edition) is available now for just a quid. Gaeilge agus fáilte! http://colmcillepress.com
Launch 7pm next Thursday at @mor_rath's Hive Studio. Expecting a very interesting discussion.
"The bulk of public money is spent in greater Belfast area, leading to serious variations in economical and social outcomes. Surely the purpose of government is to improve the wellbeing of the population as a whole, not just a part" belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/news-a…
Exactly. More than 90% of Higher Education capital spending is in Belfast. Government must intervene to stop Stormont’s overspending in the ‘capital’. Derry needs roads, rail, its own university and purpose-built student housing. The HE sector needs regulation and oversight.
"The bulk of public money is spent in greater Belfast area, leading to serious variations in economical and social outcomes. Surely the purpose of government is to improve the wellbeing of the population as a whole, not just a part" belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/news-a…
UU will be absolutely raging they missed out.
Taxpayers served bill for deputy first minister and husband’s Wimbledon trip irishnews.com/news/northern-…
UU lecturers set to refuse pay deal because of top table expense accounts.
Vice Chancellors claim there is no money for your pay to keep up with inflation, but are spending unabated at the top of the uni Time to vote to REJECT another paycut & YES to say enough is enough + indicate your willingness to take industrial action m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/education…
Today Chris Byrne reads Cathais from Paul Laughlin's poetry collection Dorn San Aer. Proceeds from sales to Palestine Medical Relief Society. Tá muid ag dul go Meiriceá an tseacthain seo chun éisteacht le Chris Byrne ag léamh Cathais. Posters, cards and badges now availalble from…
Thank you @PaulGosling1 for his appearance on @TheBikeShed. A very thorough 90 minutes on so many aspects of our future & the many paths that may take. As always, huge thanks to all listeners & contributors. Paul's book is available at the link below. colmcillepress.com/product-page/a…
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Great interview with @PaulGosling1 talking about his new book on @TheBikeShed. x.com/i/spaces/1yoKM…
We are delighted to welcome journalist & author @PaulGosling1 to The BikeShed for a chat about his recent book 'A New Ireland, A New Union: A Five Year Review'. Please join us Tue 22/07 20.30gmt colmcillepress.com/product-page/a…
This plan - be it good, bad or indifferent towards us - will have a profound impact on Derry in the run up to - and after - a reunification referendum. Dublin has repeatedly said the North West is its priority. How will Derry feature in the 2040 plan? rte.ie/news/ireland/2…
Wrote a moderately-successful caper with @BlackstaffNI almost 20 years ago, looking at how things will change when Northerners get the presidential vote (as we should!) @MaryHanafin1 is right to worry, though. Things don’t end at all well for the far-right Fianna Fáil candidate.
Should people in NI be allowed to vote in Irish Presidential elections? Fianna Fáil’s Mary Hanafin says “Not yet, and not in isolation. I think there’s not enough understanding between communities within Northern Ireland and North-South.” #aras25 irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/0…
UU clearly haven’t the capacity to manage this site, which they’ve had for eight years now and consistently failed to develop. It shows, yet again, that UU don’t have the resources or capacity to manage campuses in Derry and Belfast. It is time to hand Magee over to a new NWU.
42 firefighters and aerial water towers were involved in tackling the blaze at the former home of William Tillie of Tillie & Hendersons which later became the senior Foyle College school campus. derryjournal.com/news/emergency…
@FrancieMolloy tonight at @MacGillSchool explained he wants Stormont retained within a United Ireland. Is this the @sinnfeinireland position?
UU's stake in Magee is significantly less than the Dublin government's or @dcsdcouncil's. Surely it is time we began reflecting the Belfast university as a minority partner here and stopped allowing it to attempt to call all the shots?
Alt iontach le @jack_maciomhair san @anpaipear inniu. Excellent article on Dublin's £40m investment in Magee. @CArchibald_SF must now set up an Oversight Commission to protect this investment. We also must ensure bilingual signage is erected across the campus immediately.
Alt iontach le @jack_maciomhair san @anpaipear inniu. Excellent article on Dublin's £40m investment in Magee. @CArchibald_SF must now set up an Oversight Commission to protect this investment. We also must ensure bilingual signage is erected across the campus immediately.
'It's a new awakening in Ireland': For his new @rte series, Listen To The Land Speak, @ManchanMagan explores the connections between the physical landscape, our language and culture, and Irish identity. He also reflects on his own cancer battle irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arts…
First question a Derry 16-year-old voter will ask is why don’t we don’t have a standalone university here - but have to pay £4750 to go to a Belfast owned one, or £9500 to go to a British one? Second question, why does it cost just £2000 to go South? bbc.co.uk/news/live/c93k…
Because of its massive debt, UU hasn’t got the resources or internal capacity to grow Derry. All efforts must focus on making its Belfast campus viable. UU’s best move is to adopt the @RIAdawson blueprint, which moves Magee and Coleraine into a cross-border NWU centred in Derry.
"saving costs is everyone's responsibility" - @UlsterUni VC at recent University wide Town Hall meetings..... 🤔 belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/education…
Terrific feature by @mcart_pat in today’s @irish_news on Creggan girl and Ráth Mór patron @bronaghgall. ‘I have this thing in my DNA that I hate unfairness, inequality. It’s something that most of us, growing up in a city where injustice was rife, take with us.’
This is a university currently £170m in debt. Debt incurred by building an unsanctioned white elephant in Belfast instead of a planned expansion in Derry that wouldn’t have bankrupted both UU and the entire NI HE sector. Just who is overseeing UU and its overspending?
Ulster University urged to justify its ‘staggering’ £61k trip to US Ulster University spent more than £61,000 on a trip to Washington, DC for St Patrick’s Day, prompting questions as to whether the institution has a “limitless” marketing budget. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/education…