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Over 75 Debates and Discussions will take place at the year's Féile an Phobail.

So we’re officially very old indeed! In fact, the Derry Journal is now the second oldest paper still in existence in Ireland and the oldest regional paper. But we might never have got here as the paper also carries the curious distiniction of being the only newspaper ever to be banned in the north and the south of Ireland post-Partition...

Part one: Following two weeks of intense debate and discussion on the relocation of the National Maternity Hospital, the plan has finally been approved by Cabinet. But what will be the political cost? Pat and Jen join Hugh to discuss. In part two, London Editor Denis Staunton and Northern Editor Freya McClements assess the Stormont stalemate and the latest on the Protocol.

Leading human rights’ lawyer, Gareth Pierce will join a discussion panel in Derry tomorrow to mark the 50th anniversary of the discredited Widgery report into the Bloody Sunday killings.

Next weekend, French voters decide whether Emmanuel Macron should remain president or Marine Le Pen should replace him. The latter result would transform France and Europe. Next month, Northern Irish voters elect their MLAs in a vote that could see a Sinn Féin First Minister appointed for the first time. Freya McClements and Lara Marlowe report on these two consequential campaigns.

We must never forget the brutality of British rule in Ireland.

The sister of a teenager shot dead on Bloody Sunday, 50 years ago this weekend, has urged the soldier who fired the fatal shot to admit it.

From the civil rights background of the fatal march through to Widgery and Saville inquiries

The RTÉ journalist looks at the events of 7 January 1922 which are analysed in a TV special tonight.

This time next year will we look back and see our hopes and fears for 2022 have been realised?