Is mian le TG4 Eagarthóirí Coimisiúnaithe Ábhair a earcú! 📺 #SíógnabPost 🧚🏼 Tuilleadh eolais ⬇️ https://www.tg4.ie/ga/corporate/foluntais/

Conal McFeely says public representatives in the North West must immediately suspend all City Deal payments to Ulster University. He was speaking ahead of tomorrow's meeting of @dcsdcouncil.bsky.social, which will discuss UU's announcement of 450 job losses. www.colmcillepress.com/post/council...

Is mian le TG4 Eagarthóirí Coimisiúnaithe Ábhair a earcú! 📺 #SíógnabPost 🧚🏼 Tuilleadh eolais ⬇️ https://www.tg4.ie/ga/corporate/foluntais/

Camellia and common blue.

Terrific piece by @tcollins.bsky.social in today's @irishnews.com arguing the case for the complete restructuring of UU. www.irishnews.com/opinion/tom-...

www.irishnews.com/opinion/tom-... Today’s column in @irishnews.com online and in the shops

Shameless - a university that has spent public money recklessly for decade, siphoning money from Derry and actively preventing growth here, is now trying to blame the government for not increasing student fees to bail it out. God help the poor staff. The Minister must step in urgently and take over.

Tá TG4 ag earcú Eagarthóirí / Léiritheoirí Nuachta agus Cúrsaí Reatha chomh maith le hIriseoirí Ilmheán do sheirbhís dhigiteach nuachta! 📲 Tuilleadh eolais ⬇️ https://www.tg4.ie/ga/corporate/foluntais/ https://www.tg4.ie/ga/corporate/traenail-forbairt/dianchursa-oiliuna-san-iriseoireacht/

Tá TG4 ag féachaint faoi láthair ar Iriseoirí Ilmheán a earcú do sheirbhís dhigiteach nuachta. 📲 Tuilleadh eolais ⬇️ https://www.tg4.ie/ga/corporate/foluntais/#Iriseoir%C3%ADIlmhe%C3%A1n

A lot of people are getting five or six pre-orders just to be safe.

At long last, the cover launch of my debut novel PRESTIGE DRAMA is here! It's a funny, angry book about Derry, history, memory and Troubles-scented television. I think it's quite good, however I can *confirm* that it's quite short. And you can pre-order it everywhere NOW: geni.us/Prestige_Drama

Light-hearted courting song from the Mac Gabhann treasury - with bilingual subtitles. (To the tune of 'Some Say The Divil is Dead') Amhrán cúirtéireachta éadromchroíoch ó chiste Mhic Gabhann - le fotheidil dhátheangacha. bit.ly/4lXWULK

New Conor Bowman fiction 'one of the highlights of the year'.

Imeacht am lóin inniu ag Ráth Mór. Saor in aisce. Tacaithe ag Westway Film Productions agus @forasnagaeilge.bsky.social. Free lunchtime event at Ráth Mór today for Seachtain na Gaeilge.

Former Magee College Provost and respected historian Prof. Tom Fraser passes www.derryjournal.com/news/people/...

Glad to be part of Words, in Other Places - a new festival coming to Dublin and Belfast in April. I'm looking forward to my conversation with peerless @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social & @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social & Leontia Flynn. With thanks to @eatthestorms.com @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social

IN PICTURES: Irish language books to local Gaelscoileanna for World Book Day

Happy World Book Day! We have ten copies of our new quiz book to give away. Answer this question - via DM with your address* - and share this post, to put your name in the hat. –– Who asked Mrs Gallagher for a telephone so she could tell her husband she landed safely?

Happy World Book Day! We have ten copies of our new quiz book to give away. Answer this question - via DM with your address* - and share this post, to put your name in the hat. –– Who asked Mrs Gallagher for a telephone so she could tell her husband she landed safely?

Did you know that Peter, Paul & Mary released a version of Siúil, a Ghrá as the b-side of If I Had a Hammer? An raibh a fhios agat gur eisigh Peter, Paul & Mary leagan de Siúil, a Ghrá mar thaobh-B de If I Had a Hammer? www.colmcillepress.com/post/foghlai...

Ócáid speisialta ar siúl i Ráth Mór do Sheachtain na Gaeilge - deis dhá dhráma teilifíse Gaeilge a fheiceáil suite in Iarthuaisceart Éireann, a léiríodh don chéad uair go luath sna 1990idí do BBC/RTÉ.

www.irishnews.com/opinion/tom-... My column in today’s @irishnews.com online and in the shops.

The Belfast Telegraph has published an edited version of my @pva-books.bsky.social PVA essay 'Ghost Monument'. The visuals show something of the, well, monumental nature of Walker’s Pillar-as-was, and its dramatic context on the city walls of Derry.

Holywell Trust conference to conclude Future Relationship Conversation series in Derry. Paul Gosling will discuss research examining NW &Bill White from LucidTalk will outline opinion polling results carried out in February 2026. trib.al/27fwOlI

PSNI: Lowest percentage of Catholics apply to join force in over a decade www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

REVIEW: The Marian Hotel - You will laugh. You may well cry. You will leave changed

If you haven't yet discovered Neil Hegarty @neilhegarty.bsky.social, then I am here to tell you that you are missing out on one of our most, if not the most, brilliant writers there is. I am simply awestruck by his work. Seriously, get your hands on these materpieces! You'll thank me later!

Very much looking forward to this conversation in Banbridge Town Hall with Prof John Doyle DCU. A good moment for serious evidence-based reflection on a better way forward for our shared island.

Derry's Malvern Writers to launch inspiring new book 'Telling Stories'

A lot of new followers or users of Bluesky might find this useful: go.bsky.app/N4TnmPL

A lot of new followers or users of Bluesky might find this useful: go.bsky.app/N4TnmPL

Nollaig na mBan shona daoibh! 👯🍸🎄

Number of schools in County Derry to close tomorrow due to adverse weather

Thank you to all who have helped and supported our campaigns over the past year. We look forward to continued success in 2026. www.colmcillepress.com/post/derry-u...

Bye bye Bluesky. Closing down for Christmas. Have a good one.

Leagan álainn agus uathúil Éireannach agus Gearmánach den charúl Nollag is cáiliúla ar domhan. Beautiful, unique version of Silent Night, in Irish and German, by Risteard Mac Gabhann. For full lyrics, Irish, German & English, and some history of the song: www.colmcillepress.com/post/ceacht-...

‘Ireland finds itself in the company of the United Kingdom, its nearest neighbour. But it also sees the State allied, amongst others, with Hungary and other states where atavistic nationalism holds sway.’ www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...

Nollaig Shona Daoibh! Signed books from Derry - the perfect Christmas present.. colmcillepress.com/so/ebPi8Vxoi...

Nollaig Shona Daoibh! Signed books from Derry - the perfect Christmas present.. colmcillepress.com/so/ebPi8Vxoi...

'What unfolds is a finely-wrought portrait of survival, memory and the long reverberations of institutional trauma.' Terrific piece on Conor Bowman's new fiction The Half Life of Edith Hopkins, centred on the Tuam Mother & Baby Home, in today's @irishnews.com. www.irishnews.com/life/barrist...

Tá muid an-bhródúil as ár nduaiseanna ó Ghlór na nGael. Maith sibh.

Glór na nGael article explores the advantages and benefits of bilingualism

Many hanks to the Derry Journal for this feature on our quiz book. There are, of course, rounds in it about the North West media: 'What infamous Derry Journal columnist was interviewed by the BBC wearing a paper bag over his head to disguise his identity...?' www.derryjournal.com/news/people/...

Great chat with quiz legends Brian Mullen and Martin Bradley on BBC Radio Foyle's Mark Patterson Show at lunchtime. For many years, quizzes were the only entertainment in Derry, providing their own drama, casualties, and deathbed confessions... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

www.irishnews.com/opinion/tom-... My column in today’s @irishnews.com online and in the shops.

Launching, singing and signing... Pre-Christmas diary date for @mor_rath. www.colmcillepress.com/post/pre-chr...

Terrific interview by in today's @belfasttelegraph.co.uk with barrister Conor Bowman, whose fiction collection focusing on the Tuam Mother & Baby Home is being launched in Derry next week. Conor will be at the Hive Studios, Ráth Mór at 5.30om on December 5. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/books/b...

Fresh off the boat! The Handy Wee Derry Quiz Book - a perfect stocking filler - has landed back from the printers in record time and will be in the shops over the next few days. Copies available now from: www.colmcillepress.com/product-page...