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The DUG response to the 2024 Magee Taskforce Report
Minister Conor Murphy will find it impossible to increase student numbers in the North West if he signs off on the Magee plan as it stands.
Garbhan Downey
Dec 20, 202412 min read
New print of War, Peace and the Derry Journal on shelves for Christmas
Colmcille Press is delighted to announce that the first edition of Pat McArt's War, Peace and the Derry Journal has now sold out. But the...
Colmcille Press
Nov 1, 20241 min read
Launch of 'Private Diary of a Suspended MLA' at Derry's Bookworm 20 years ago
Twenty years ago this week saw the launch of Garbhán Downey's debut novel, Private Diary of a Suspended MLA (Guildhall Press/Stormount...
Garbhan Downey
Oct 24, 20241 min read
Series of Autumn 2024 launches for new Simpson novel
True Colours, published by Colmcille Press, is the follow up to Simpson’s 2021 short story collection Smokes and Birds.
Colmcille Press
Sep 3, 20242 min read
PICTURE GALLERY: Garrett Hargan book launch at the Hive Studios, Ráth Mór, August 9th 2024
Photographs by Joe McAllister from the launch of 'A Scandal in Plain Sight' at the Hive Studios, Ráth Mór on August 9, 2024.
Colmcille Press
Aug 12, 20240 min read
Foyle MP praises 'fearless advocate' Hargan
Garrett Hargan presents book to Colum Eastwood
Colmcille Press
Aug 12, 20241 min read
Hargan launches investigation of 60-year scandal: ‘Belfast must be removed from its role as Lord and master’
August 9th, 2024 THERE was standing room only - and a standing ovation - at the launch of Garrett Hargan’s investigative history of the...
Colmcille Press
Aug 10, 20245 min read
Unearthed report shows Magee plan was buried to allow new Belfast campus the green light
Unearthed report shows Magee growth plan was buried to allow new Belfast campus the green light
Colmcille Press
Aug 6, 20243 min read
August 9 launch for new book on university scandal
This book features the voices of four generations of Derry commentators from the late, great Frank Curran to Hargan himself - Conal McFeely
Colmcille Press
Jul 25, 20242 min read
The Belfast plans are ‘astonishing’...
In this short extract from his new book A Scandal In Plain Sight, GARRETT HARGAN investigates how Ulster University and its friends in...
Colmcille Press
Jul 19, 20242 min read
Another Story - Teachers in Need...
So this woman here fetched up at the Tech one day in the early 80s to teach a subject she knew damn all about. Architecture? Not a...
Anne Clarke
Dec 8, 20223 min read
Another Story - First Days at the Tech
When I started at the Tech in the early 80s, my very first memo from our formidable Head of Department, Margaret Baumann, read, ‘I don’t...
Anne Clarke
Dec 1, 20224 min read
That's Another Story
Fun and frivolity. We had buckets of both in Derry. Just as those caught up in WW2 report grabbing life by the throat and wringing what...
Anne Clarke
Nov 23, 20223 min read
Another Thing
It’s no exaggeration to say that being involved with Radio Foyle had a profound effect on the rest of my career. As a direct result of...
Anne Clarke
Nov 15, 20223 min read
This is About a lot More Than Football
Michael O’Donnell, editor of A Game of Two Halves: The Terry Harkin Story, says Derry City's revival wasn’t just about the rebirth of a...
Michael O'Donnell
Nov 12, 20224 min read
Another Story - How Not to Offend a Tullyally Farmer
A brutal reality check for Anne this week, as her new radio boss gently explains that she's got the perfect voice for newsprint... Anita...
Anne Clarke
Nov 9, 20223 min read
Mind Your Aitches
This week Anne reflects on adapting to teaching life at Faughan Valley High School in the early 1980s
Anne Clarke
Oct 18, 20223 min read
Step We Gaily?
New columnist MAIREAD MORRISON says the current feis-fixing scandal is making a reel of hardworking Derry feis mothers. It might have...
Mairead Morris
Oct 10, 20225 min read
I Love Derry
I love Derry. I lived there for 8 magical years from 1978-86 and go back as often as I can. For my sins and the love of a good man, I’ve...
Anne Clarke
Oct 3, 20223 min read
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