Bizarrely, for a society that has supposedly progressed out of the dark days of the Troubles and into a ‘new dispensation’, the Browns have now been kept waiting for an inquiry even longer than the Bloody Sunday families were.

It’s imperative that Derry and Coleraine - led by their Councils and Chambers of Commerce - quickly find shared leadership, and rise up with a common voice. They must convince the politicians at Stormont and Westminster with detailed arguments and analyses that this is wrong and will have devastating long term consequences for an important sub region on this island, before its too late.

'The Half-Life of Edith Hopkin and Other Stories' begins with a novella (the title story), which tells of a rape victim whose infant baby is removed from her at the Tuam Mother & Baby Home in the 1960s and how her life unfolds in the traumatic aftermath. It is a highly-nuanced, compassionate and lyrical tale, made all the more significant as the author himself was born in the Castlepollard Manor Mother & Baby Home in 1965 and was then adopted a year later.

A Scandal in Plain Sight author GARRETT HARGAN investigates how Stormont’s neglect of Derry’s education sector is compounding the damage done by what John Hume called ‘the despicable criminal story of the second university’.

Colmcille Press and North West Regional College have partnered to trial new voice replication technology designed to help authors and independent publishers create professional audiobooks quickly and affordably. For the first of three pilots, produced by Aaron McKeever, Consultant at NWRC's XR Hub, author Felicity McCall reads the title story from her new short-story collection What We Did on Our Holidays.

Carrying Light pays personal tribute to Derry and Donegal luminaries, from Pat Hume and Sr Clare Crockett and from Dinny McGinley to Canon McDyer

He easily matches many of our big literary talents and paddles in the same thematic streams but seems to be somehow overlooked.

In this extended interview, the veteran campaigner and writer Eamonn McCann recalls the Derry of the 1950s and 1960s, and the events that him to write one of the most famous modern histories on Ireland.

Míle buíochas le Fiachna Ó Braonáin as an bhfíseán seo de féin ag léamh ó bhailiúchán Paul Laughlin, Dorn San Aer (Filíocht ó Dhoire go Gaza). Thug an t-amhránaí Bronagh Gallagher cóip den leabhar dó i ndiaidh cheolchoirm Hothouse Flowers i Halla na Guild an tseachtain seo caite.

Joe Mahon has generously started 'Ciste Mhic Gabhann' with a donation of £5000 and says he hopes other funders will now also contribute to it.