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Geldof calls for new solutions to global food crisis at Belfast summit

Bob Geldof has said the “fight for food is the fight for life” at a global summit in Belfast. Geldof also said sustainability in a finite world is a “myth” and called for new solutions to the global food crisis. The singer and songwriter opened the ...

03 Oct 2023 at 16:59

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Call for moratorium on evictions and rent freezes

An online petition has been launched calling for a moratorium on evictions and rent freezes across the rental sector. Speaking to Derry News, Sinead Quinn, spokesperson for the local protest group Derry Against Fuel Poverty, said the petition ...

17 Oct 2022 at 13:45

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Rise in Derry poverty should "embarrass" Executive parties, says Cllr Harkin

People Before Profit councillor, Shaun Harkin, says the Executive parties should be “embarrassed” over the rise of poverty in Derry. A motion put forward by Cllr Harkin on poverty was passed in June by Derry City & Strabane District Council. ...

09 Nov 2021 at 15:18

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Funding initiative to aid Derry schools through difficult times ahead

Poverty in our society is often hidden behind closed doors. However today, with the continued rise in the cost of essentials like food and fuel, it is much more visible as many families struggle to heat their homes and feed their children. ...

18 Jan 2023 at 09:05

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Derry's democratic deficit

The lifting of covid access restrictions has exposed what campaign group, Derry Action Against Fuel Poverty, described as a “democratic deficit” at the heart of local and regional government. The campaign group’s claim centres on the fact ...

15 Dec 2022 at 13:32

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Problems with £600 vouchers

It has emerged that customers are facing problems with the Energy Bills Support Scheme and Alternative Fuel Payment NI vouchers issued to Power NI customers. In response to issues with the Power NI issued vouchers, Derry Against Fuel ...

19 Jan 2023 at 14:49

Northern Ireland

One in five children living in poverty, report claims

About one in five children in Northern Ireland are living in relative poverty before housing costs, a new Audit Office report has found. Comptroller and Auditor General Dorinnia Carville also said there had been little sustained ...

12 Mar 2024 at 00:01

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Gas customers ineligible for Emergency Fuel Support

Pressure group, Derry Against Fuel Poverty has described news, gas customers will not benefit from heat support via the Derry City and Strabane District Council's Emergency Fuel Support Programme as "devastating". Spokesperson ...

29 Nov 2022 at 22:46

Local News

Councillors lock horns in Derry poverty row

A row over poverty in Derry has broken out between Sinn Féin and People Before Profit. Cllr Shaun Harkin of People Before Profit accused Sinn Féin – along with the SDLP and the DUP – of “dragging their feet” in helping ...

22 Dec 2021 at 07:00

Northern Ireland

One in 10 Northern Ireland children in homes affected by two-child benefit limit

One in 10 children in Northern Ireland lives in a household affected by a policy slammed as “unjust” which limits benefit entitlement for those who have more than two children. The policy, introduced in 2017, affects ...

05 Dec 2023 at 00:01

Local News

Derry Against Fuel Poverty to march through Derry against rising energy costs

Derry Against Fuel Poverty, a grassroots anti-poverty campaign set up in January 2022 to mobilise working class people in the face of ever rising household bills, has organised a march for Saturday October 1 in the ...

24 Aug 2022 at 19:00

Northern Ireland

Stormont parties urged to back Opposition motion to stop two-child benefit limit

Northern Ireland’s administration is to be urged to remove the two-child limit for benefits payments as a key move to tackle childhood poverty. Some one in five children in the region are living in relative ...

15 Apr 2024 at 16:57

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