Indoor Hospitality Opens As NI Takes Further Steps Out Of Lockdown Indoor hospitality will officially open today, 24 May, as Northern Ireland takes further steps out of lockdown.
Six people from no more than two households will be able to meet in homes and stay overnight.
All tourism accommodation will also reopen.
Post-wedding and civil partnership receptions can also take place.
Elsewhere, over £96million has been allocated by the Finance Minister to support businesses which are the last to reopen and secure jobs.
Sinn Féin spokesperson for the Economy Caoimhe Archibald said: This announcement underlines Conor Murphy’s commitment to see businesses through the remaining restrictions to reopening and recovery.
09 July 2015 A man has been charged in connection with a cannabis seizure in Foreglen, Co L Derry. Cannabis plants worth an estimated value of £400,000 were discovered at a property in October last year. The man has been charged with possession of class B drugs, possession with intent to supply class B drugs and cultivating cannabis. 06 July 2006 A 29-year-old man has been charged with possession of a class A drug and possession of a class A drug with intent to supply. The arrest comes after a planned police operation in County Antrim yesterday morning, when searches were carried out at an address in the Carnreagh area of Craigavon .
20 May 2021 Construction work has started on a £6.5million shared social housing scheme in Armagh. Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey cut the first sod at the site on Ogle Street in Armagh City Centre. The development is being provided by Ark Housing Association with support of £3.4 million from the Department for Communities. 20 May 2021 A man has been charged after two brothers went missing from north Belfast. The 27-year-old is expected to appear in court today, 20 May, accused of two counts of keeping a child away from a responsible person. Fabricio and Patrick Hovarth, aged eight and five, were last seen getting into a car on Limestone Road last Friday evening.
Construction work has started on a £6.5million shared social housing scheme in Armagh.
Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey cut the first sod at the site on Ogle Street in Armagh City Centre.
The development is being provided by Ark Housing Association with support of £3.4 million from the Department for Communities. The scheme is a Housing for All project which promotes sharing and integration in housing.
The scheme will deliver 42 homes including a mix of town houses and apartments, including wheelchair accessible accommodation to meet the housing needs of citizens.
Minister Hargey said: I have asked the department to begin the biggest reform of social housing in over 50 years. This includes building more homes, where they are needed. This new social housing scheme will provide much needed homes for families in housing need in the Armagh area. It reminds us too that homes make neighbourhoods and schemes like this create places where people want to live and
Vaccine Programme Opens For 25 to 29 Year Olds The Coronavirus vaccine programme has opened today, 20 May, for people aged 25 to 29 in Northern Ireland.
Anyone born between 01/05/91 and 31/07/96 can book an appointment at one of the Trust vaccination centres.
Health Minister Robin Swann said: Vaccination is vital in helping us move through this pandemic and there is no doubt that there are people in Northern Ireland alive today because they have been vaccinated. Next week we will see further easing of restrictions with the re-opening of licensed and unlicensed premises indoors, the remainder of tourist accommodation and the further relaxation to the rules over visiting indoors.