Stormont update on bid to add 'Derry' to 'Londonderry' road signs

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Stormont update on bid to add 'Derry' to 'Londonderry' road signs
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A year ago it was confirmed a 'dual-naming' policy for road signage was being worked on by the Department for Infrastructure

Stormont officials have said "preliminary work" has been carried out on proposals to add the word 'Derry' to road signs alongside 'Londonderry'.

Read more: Ulster University denies Magee campus name change after telling staff to use 'Derry-Londonderry' He said it would assist tourists visiting Derry and "put an end to the constant defacing of the existing signs". Mr O'Dowd and other caretaker ministers were removed from office last October in the months following Stormont's collapse after the DUP withdrew from power-sharing in protest against Brexit's Northern Ireland Protocol.

DUP MLA Brian Kingston hit out at Sinn Féin-banded Irish-language signs advising drivers to slow down, saying they were "intimidatory" to unionists.

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