
Down Senior Footballers appear in their first Ulster Final since 2003 when they take on Donegal on Sunday 22nd July in Clones, Co Monaghan at 2.00pm. This is an All-Ticket Game. Down GAA will have tickets on sale as follows: County Office Dressing Room Complex, Pairc Esler Newry: Monday 16th July 9.30am – 12.30pm, Tuesday […]
Jul 16 2012 | Posted in
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The Provisional IRA’s ceasefire raised hopes initially amongst many in the Northern Ireland community that a peaceful solution could finally be reached. It was welcomed by all, if some a little more cautious and skeptical than others. Irish Foreign Minister Dick Spring claimed it was “historic” and Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds called for loyalist […]
Jul 16 2012 | Posted in
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Dear Editor, Tourism could be the economic saviour of this part of Ireland, but only if it is developed and promoted effectively and holistically. I have been passionate about promoting tourism in this area since my term as an MLA between 1998 and 2003 and throughout my time as a Sinn Fein councillor on Newry […]

Police in Newry are appealing for information following the report of a burglary at a house in the Altnaveigh Park area on Tuesday 10th July. It was reported that at sometime in the early hours of Tuesday, as the occupants slept, the house had been entered and an HP laptop computer, a silver Nikon digital […]
Jul 15 2012 | Posted in
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SDLP South Down MP Margaret Ritchie has invited Prime Minister David Cameron to visit the constituency to witness the legacy of the area’s Patrician heritage. She issued the invitation during this week Prime Minister’s Questions, while pointing out how the links to St Patrick’s mission in Ireland have been used to great effect in the […]
Jul 15 2012 | Posted in
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Alliance Newcastle Councillor Patrick Clarke has called for closer co-operation between the Education Boards and CCMS over their plans for the number and type of schools that they need in each area. Currently there is two separate audits of what each sector requires. The plans are aimed at reducing the 85,000 empty desks in all […]
Jul 15 2012 | Posted in
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I suppose it’s in the nature of sport that only one team can come out of any competition fully satisfied and that for everyone else it ends in varying degrees of failure. Our objective was to reach the semi-finals of the World University Championships and, at face value, finishing fourth in a major tournament is […]
Jul 14 2012 | Posted in
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Sinn Féin councillor Packie McDonald has described revelations that ammunition was found close to a Newry primary school on the Chancellor’s Road as ‘worrying’. McDonald was reacting after Newry Times exclusively revealed this week that police in Newry recently discovered lethal rounds, which were left in the open during the day close to a Primary […]
Jul 14 2012 | Posted in
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Alliance Newcastle Councillor Patrick Clarke has warmly welcomed new signage which has now been erected on the exit gate pillars at Castlewellan Forest Park in an attempt to slow traffic down on the non Forest Service owned road leading from the Forest Park. Clarke had requested the Forest Service back in June to erect appropriate […]
Jul 14 2012 | Posted in
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By Richard Bullick Bessbrook sports star Caroline O’Hanlon narrowly missed out on a medal as her Irish Students side finished fourth at the inaugural World University Netball Championships in South Africa. Ireland’s hopes of lifting the trophy were ended by a 52-37 defeat by top seeds Great Britain in the semi-final and they then lost […]
Jul 14 2012 | Posted in
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