{"id":745594,"date":"2026-02-06T05:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/745594\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T05:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:50:14","slug":"campbell-reminds-irish-president-stormont-departments-270k-legal-bill-and-story-of-an-enduring-gaa-alliance-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/745594\/","title":{"rendered":"Campbell reminds Irish President, Stormont department\u2019s \u00a3270k legal bill, and story of an enduring GAA alliance \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

News<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u2018You\u2019re in our country\u2019 DUP\u2019s Gregory Campbell tells Irish president during Derry visit<\/b><\/p>\n

DUP MP Gregory Campbell has told Irish president Catherine Connolly \u201cyou\u2019re in our country\u201d<\/a> and warned her against \u201crewriting the past\u201d on her visit to County Derry<\/a>. In a short interaction between the pair after Ms Connolly addressed the Guildhall, she said she is \u201chere to listen\u201d \u2013 adding \u201cat the end of the day we\u2019re human beings and we have to have respect\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Department of Education racks up \u00a3270k legal bill amid school funding crisis<\/b><\/p>\n

The Department of Education<\/a> has spent more than \u00a3270,000 on legal counsel representation in just nine months<\/a>, almost quadruple the annual spend in previous years. It comes amid complaints that many of Northern Ireland\u2019s schools have been left to \u201ccrumble\u201d and that children with Special Educational Needs (SEN) are unable to access adequate services due to budgeting issues.<\/p>\n

\"‘Farcical’<\/a>\"Footage<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Footage of Noah Donohoe \u2018missed\u2019 in initial search of CCTV, inquest told<\/b><\/p>\n

On the 12th day of proceedings, Noah Donohoe<\/a>\u2019s appearance on a leisure centre\u2019s CCTV footage seems to have been \u201cmissed\u201d by police in the \u201ccritical\u201d 24 hours after he went missing<\/a>, an inquest heard.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Insolvency-related activity surged 20% in Northern Ireland last year<\/b><\/p>\n

Northern Ireland recorded one of the highest increases in business failures across the UK last year<\/a>, new figures suggest. Insolvency<\/a>-related activity jumped 20.2% in 2025, rising to 297 cases from 247 the previous year.<\/p>\n

Politics and analysis<\/p>\n

\u2022 Precedent created by John O\u2019Dowd\u2019s rates u-turn \u2018not in NI\u2019s long-term interest\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n

The Stormont finance minister\u2019s suspension of the non-domestic rates revaluation<\/a> is \u201cnot in the interests of Northern Ireland\u201d, the head of the surveyors\u2019 representative body has said.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Concern development of student accommodation in Derry is failing to keep pace with Ulster University expansion<\/b><\/p>\n

Councillors in Derry have voiced concern that purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) provision in the city is failing to meet the needs of quicker-than-expected student expansion<\/a> at Ulster University\u2019s (UU) Magee campus.<\/p>\n

Sport<\/p>\n

\u2022 Kenny Archer: Pep Guardiola on the money by speaking out on wars and refugees<\/b><\/p>\n

Irish News deputy sports editor Kenny Archer\u2019s latest column on how Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola\u2019s recent remarks about issues in the wider world<\/a> should resonate with all decent human beings.<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u2018If they got lost, we might never have found them\u2019: Shanghai surprise, New York summers and the enduring Down-Clare connection<\/b><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a long way from Cusack Park to China\u2019s largest city \u2013 but it was in Shanghai that an unlikely Down-Clare alliance was once forged. Neil Loughran looks into what has become an enduring connection<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News \u2022 \u2018You\u2019re in our country\u2019 DUP\u2019s Gregory Campbell tells Irish president during Derry visit DUP MP Gregory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5011],"tags":[51,220346,166490,220345,1144,11191,16,15],"class_list":["post-745594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-northern-ireland","tag-business","tag-down-gaa","tag-education-minister","tag-gaa-fixtures","tag-northern-ireland","tag-stormont","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116022124598865845","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}