Protestants and Catholics have set aside their fractious past and are united for The 2013 City of Culture, 338 arts events that symbolise progress, says Alan O’Riordan

Girls Aloud star Nadine Coyle and Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody will help kick off celebrations in the North's first City of Culture, it has been confirmed.

City of Culture status could do for Derry what the Olympics did for London, organisers have claimed.

An international team of rowers was today beginning an epic sea voyage recreating the route taken by Saint Columba in the sixth century.