Derry University Group
@derry-group.bsky.social
Championing an independent cross-border university for the North West - the last-remaining North Ireland Civil Rights campaign.
Garrett Hargan's investigative history of the 60-year fight, A Scandal in Plain Sight, is available from colmcillepress.com.
Garrett Hargan's investigative history of the 60-year fight, A Scandal in Plain Sight, is available from colmcillepress.com.
Well done Mike Kane MP for raising the two
Royal Irish Academy reports on the need for an independent North West university at the Commons Select Committee this morning.
UU clearly very rattled - but their attempts to rubbish the island's top academics and Derry civic society aren't fooling anyone.
Royal Irish Academy reports on the need for an independent North West university at the Commons Select Committee this morning.
UU clearly very rattled - but their attempts to rubbish the island's top academics and Derry civic society aren't fooling anyone.
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Well done Mike Kane MP for raising the two
Royal Irish Academy reports on the need for an independent North West university at the Commons Select Committee this morning.
UU clearly very rattled - but their attempts to rubbish the island's top academics and Derry civic society aren't fooling anyone.
Royal Irish Academy reports on the need for an independent North West university at the Commons Select Committee this morning.
UU clearly very rattled - but their attempts to rubbish the island's top academics and Derry civic society aren't fooling anyone.
Alt iontach le @jackmaciomhair.bsky.social san @anpaipear.bsky.social inniu.
Excellent article on Dublin's £40m investment in Magee.
@caoimhearchibald.bsky.social must set up an Oversight Commission to protect this.
We also must ensure bilingual signage is erected across the campus immediately.
Excellent article on Dublin's £40m investment in Magee.
@caoimhearchibald.bsky.social must set up an Oversight Commission to protect this.
We also must ensure bilingual signage is erected across the campus immediately.
July 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Alt iontach le @jackmaciomhair.bsky.social san @anpaipear.bsky.social inniu.
Excellent article on Dublin's £40m investment in Magee.
@caoimhearchibald.bsky.social must set up an Oversight Commission to protect this.
We also must ensure bilingual signage is erected across the campus immediately.
Excellent article on Dublin's £40m investment in Magee.
@caoimhearchibald.bsky.social must set up an Oversight Commission to protect this.
We also must ensure bilingual signage is erected across the campus immediately.
As damning an indictment of UU, Stormont and the Northern Ireland Civil Service as has ever been published outside Derry.
Thank you Brian Feeney and @irishnews.com.
Enough is enough.
Thank you Brian Feeney and @irishnews.com.
Enough is enough.
May 7, 2025 at 7:40 AM
As damning an indictment of UU, Stormont and the Northern Ireland Civil Service as has ever been published outside Derry.
Thank you Brian Feeney and @irishnews.com.
Enough is enough.
Thank you Brian Feeney and @irishnews.com.
Enough is enough.
The straw that breaks the camel’s back? @wonkhe.bsky.social
April 12, 2025 at 7:52 AM
The straw that breaks the camel’s back? @wonkhe.bsky.social
Eddie McAteer MP, Mayor Albert Anderson and John Hume at Stormont, with some of the 25000 people who took part in the cavalcade from Derry to protest against the decision to refuse the city its own university.
Sixty years ago today.
Sixty years ago today.
February 18, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Eddie McAteer MP, Mayor Albert Anderson and John Hume at Stormont, with some of the 25000 people who took part in the cavalcade from Derry to protest against the decision to refuse the city its own university.
Sixty years ago today.
Sixty years ago today.
Sixty years of being told no.
It is time for the Irish and British governments to co-ordinate, structure and formalise their support for an independent North West University.
It is time for the Irish and British governments to co-ordinate, structure and formalise their support for an independent North West University.
February 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Sixty years of being told no.
It is time for the Irish and British governments to co-ordinate, structure and formalise their support for an independent North West University.
It is time for the Irish and British governments to co-ordinate, structure and formalise their support for an independent North West University.
This month sees the 60th anniversary of the Lockwood Report, the first of many times Derry was refused its own university.
It was every bit as wrong then - as seen in this archive UTV footage - as it is today.
For the full story, read 'A Scandal in Plain Sight' (2024) by @garretthargan.bsky.social.
It was every bit as wrong then - as seen in this archive UTV footage - as it is today.
For the full story, read 'A Scandal in Plain Sight' (2024) by @garretthargan.bsky.social.
February 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
This month sees the 60th anniversary of the Lockwood Report, the first of many times Derry was refused its own university.
It was every bit as wrong then - as seen in this archive UTV footage - as it is today.
For the full story, read 'A Scandal in Plain Sight' (2024) by @garretthargan.bsky.social.
It was every bit as wrong then - as seen in this archive UTV footage - as it is today.
For the full story, read 'A Scandal in Plain Sight' (2024) by @garretthargan.bsky.social.
No mention of the Magee Expansion Plan by Hilary Benn yesterday.
If the NIO is already indicating the plan is dead, the British and Irish need to sit down to appoint commissioners immediately to deliver the independent NWU, as per the Royal Irish Academy blueprint.
If the NIO is already indicating the plan is dead, the British and Irish need to sit down to appoint commissioners immediately to deliver the independent NWU, as per the Royal Irish Academy blueprint.
January 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM
No mention of the Magee Expansion Plan by Hilary Benn yesterday.
If the NIO is already indicating the plan is dead, the British and Irish need to sit down to appoint commissioners immediately to deliver the independent NWU, as per the Royal Irish Academy blueprint.
If the NIO is already indicating the plan is dead, the British and Irish need to sit down to appoint commissioners immediately to deliver the independent NWU, as per the Royal Irish Academy blueprint.
As we digest, and consider a full response to, yesterday’s UU Taskforce Report, former @irishnews.com editor @tcollins.bluesky.social warns Minister Conor Murphy that the ‘wrongs of the sixties’ still aren’t being addressed.
December 17, 2024 at 1:06 PM
As we digest, and consider a full response to, yesterday’s UU Taskforce Report, former @irishnews.com editor @tcollins.bluesky.social warns Minister Conor Murphy that the ‘wrongs of the sixties’ still aren’t being addressed.
For anyone who didn’t get a chance to see yesterday’s piece by @tcollins.bsky.social in the @irishnews.com.
‘One of the most important things when you are campaigning about something where right is on your side is to never give up.’
‘One of the most important things when you are campaigning about something where right is on your side is to never give up.’
December 11, 2024 at 5:52 AM
For anyone who didn’t get a chance to see yesterday’s piece by @tcollins.bsky.social in the @irishnews.com.
‘One of the most important things when you are campaigning about something where right is on your side is to never give up.’
‘One of the most important things when you are campaigning about something where right is on your side is to never give up.’
Tom Collins’s full piece in the Irish News.
They can’t disguise the data: UU invested £360m-plus in Belfast and just £7m in Derry.
Belfast now has an unprecedented 83% of NI students.
And now UU want to double fees to pay off their Belfast debt?
It is a scandal in plain sight.
They can’t disguise the data: UU invested £360m-plus in Belfast and just £7m in Derry.
Belfast now has an unprecedented 83% of NI students.
And now UU want to double fees to pay off their Belfast debt?
It is a scandal in plain sight.
December 4, 2024 at 5:50 AM
Tom Collins’s full piece in the Irish News.
They can’t disguise the data: UU invested £360m-plus in Belfast and just £7m in Derry.
Belfast now has an unprecedented 83% of NI students.
And now UU want to double fees to pay off their Belfast debt?
It is a scandal in plain sight.
They can’t disguise the data: UU invested £360m-plus in Belfast and just £7m in Derry.
Belfast now has an unprecedented 83% of NI students.
And now UU want to double fees to pay off their Belfast debt?
It is a scandal in plain sight.
You need to get yourself a fact checker, @williamcrawley.bsky.social. UU's Paul Bartholomew claimed today, unchallenged, that a previous VC, who now favours an independent NWU, reduced Magee numbers when at UU.
In fact, he increased them by 35%.
In fact, he increased them by 35%.
November 21, 2024 at 4:23 PM
You need to get yourself a fact checker, @williamcrawley.bsky.social. UU's Paul Bartholomew claimed today, unchallenged, that a previous VC, who now favours an independent NWU, reduced Magee numbers when at UU.
In fact, he increased them by 35%.
In fact, he increased them by 35%.
Don't forget this one!
November 21, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Don't forget this one!
'Driving investment in the North West'...all the way back to Belfast.
(pic lifted from @garretthanna.bsky.social)
(pic lifted from @garretthanna.bsky.social)
November 18, 2024 at 11:06 AM
'Driving investment in the North West'...all the way back to Belfast.
(pic lifted from @garretthanna.bsky.social)
(pic lifted from @garretthanna.bsky.social)
In 2020, the British and Irish governments promised that Stormont would deliver 10000 full time students in Derry by 2030. At the half-way point, it is now certain that UU and Stormont will settle for 7000 or less.
Stormont and UU is also refusing an audit of actual numbers at Magee campus.
Stormont and UU is also refusing an audit of actual numbers at Magee campus.
November 17, 2024 at 7:16 PM
In 2020, the British and Irish governments promised that Stormont would deliver 10000 full time students in Derry by 2030. At the half-way point, it is now certain that UU and Stormont will settle for 7000 or less.
Stormont and UU is also refusing an audit of actual numbers at Magee campus.
Stormont and UU is also refusing an audit of actual numbers at Magee campus.
The main reason Stormont and Ulster University want to double student fees in the North is that UU owes a £160m debt to Stormont's economic arm, the Strategic Investment Board.
UU owes this debt because it built an unnecessary new campus in Belfast instead of the one it had promised to Derry.
UU owes this debt because it built an unnecessary new campus in Belfast instead of the one it had promised to Derry.
November 17, 2024 at 6:45 PM
The main reason Stormont and Ulster University want to double student fees in the North is that UU owes a £160m debt to Stormont's economic arm, the Strategic Investment Board.
UU owes this debt because it built an unnecessary new campus in Belfast instead of the one it had promised to Derry.
UU owes this debt because it built an unnecessary new campus in Belfast instead of the one it had promised to Derry.
In 2021 and 2024, the Royal Irish Academy published two reports advocating an independent cross-border university in NW Ireland.
The RIA also called for Derry fees to be LOWERED to create regional balance in the North's HE sector - 83% of NI students are in Belfast.
Stormont wants to double fees...
The RIA also called for Derry fees to be LOWERED to create regional balance in the North's HE sector - 83% of NI students are in Belfast.
Stormont wants to double fees...
November 17, 2024 at 6:39 PM
In 2021 and 2024, the Royal Irish Academy published two reports advocating an independent cross-border university in NW Ireland.
The RIA also called for Derry fees to be LOWERED to create regional balance in the North's HE sector - 83% of NI students are in Belfast.
Stormont wants to double fees...
The RIA also called for Derry fees to be LOWERED to create regional balance in the North's HE sector - 83% of NI students are in Belfast.
Stormont wants to double fees...
Glad to be here!
For those who don't know us our ambitions are simple: to set up an independent cross-border university for northwest #Ireland, the return of Magee College to Derry, and independent oversight of NI universities.
Stormont is no longer fit to run Derry's economy fairly, if it ever was.
For those who don't know us our ambitions are simple: to set up an independent cross-border university for northwest #Ireland, the return of Magee College to Derry, and independent oversight of NI universities.
Stormont is no longer fit to run Derry's economy fairly, if it ever was.
November 17, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Glad to be here!
For those who don't know us our ambitions are simple: to set up an independent cross-border university for northwest #Ireland, the return of Magee College to Derry, and independent oversight of NI universities.
Stormont is no longer fit to run Derry's economy fairly, if it ever was.
For those who don't know us our ambitions are simple: to set up an independent cross-border university for northwest #Ireland, the return of Magee College to Derry, and independent oversight of NI universities.
Stormont is no longer fit to run Derry's economy fairly, if it ever was.