As the annual UK Organ Donation Week (23 to 29 September) gets underway, Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has welcomed Northern Ireland’s growing rate of support for organ donation. 

Infrastructure Minister John O’Dowd has welcomed the announcement by the Irish Government that 48 sports clubs across the North are now eligible to apply for funding for electric vehicle charge points.

Members of the Newry, Mourne and Down District Council received an update from the Department for Infrastructure regarding road maintenance and improvement works in the council area, for the years 2023/24 and 2024/25.

Economy Minister Conor Murphy today launched the 2025 Northern Ireland Apprenticeship Awards.

Maurice Rainey (62), Church Road, Randalstown, Antrim was sentenced at Antrim Court on the 20 September 2024 of six charges of causing unnecessary suffering to bovine animals and one charge of failure to hold a carcase, that had not been slaughtered for human consumption, in such a manner as to ensure that any animal or bird would not have access to it.