Education Minister Paul Givan has announced that a review of the Northern Ireland curriculum is to take place. He also announced that he will legislate to ensure that all children must remain in education or training until they are 18 years old.
Former Ulster Unionist Party election candidate Naomi McBurney has been co-opted by the Alliance Party to sit on Ards and North Down Council, replacing Christine Creighton, who stepped down just over a week ago.
Rosemary Barton has been selected as the Ulster Unionist Party’s new councillor for Erne North. She replaces Diana Armstrong MLA, who was co-opted to the Northern Ireland Assembly in September.
Niall Ó Donnghaile has confirmed that he sent inappropriate texts to a teenager in September 2023, he was suspended from Sinn Fein, before he resigned from from the Seanad in December 2023 on health grounds.
Alliance Party councillor Gillian McCollum has been moved to the Holywood and Clandeboye District Electoral Area (DEA) on Ards and North Down Borough Council, to replace David Rossiter, who stepped down from the council last month and has since left Alliance.
First Minister Michelle O’Neill and Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly attended the first meeting of the newly established Council of the Nations and Regions on Friday. Held in Edinburgh, it brings the Prime Minister together with leaders from across the UK.
The Department for Communities (DfC) has announced that they are to create over 1,000 new jobs across Northern Ireland, as they expand their service in delivering child maintenance and benefit services for the Department for Work and Pensions.
The Alliance Party has announced that Eóin Tennyson MLA has been elected as their new deputy leader, following a vote of 190 party members on Tuesday evening. He said that it’s a ‘hugely exciting time for our party’ and he is ‘incredibly thankful to party members’.
Former Sinn Féin press officer Michael McMonagle has admitted to several child sex offences and is awaiting sentencing, but it’s been revealed that two of his former colleagues provided references for him to gain employment at the British Heart Foundation, after his contract was terminated by the party.
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