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Archive for: July, 2012

Young entrepreneurs inspired by ‘Jedi Jim’ at Youth Fest NI

Plans for Ireland’s largest free youth event, Youth Fest NI are well underway with organisers putting the final details to a schedule of free events all day to suit families with young children and teens. Youth Fest NI – 7th July, Kilbroney Park, Rostrevor – is an ambitious cross border initiative from a committee of […]

Youngest MLA takes her place in the Assembly…and history

20 year old Megan Fearon was formally registered as an Assembly Member for the Newry & Armagh Constituency yesterday, making her the youngest ever MLA and the youngest public representative in Ireland. Megan, who has just completed her university studies, took everything in her stride today even managing time for an interview with UTV’s Ken […]

Brady welcomes Teleperformance jobs boost

Newry Sinn Fein MLA Mickey Brady has welcomed the news that telecoms company Teleperformance is to create 400 new jobs across their sites in Bangor and Newry. Newry Times exclusively revealed on Friday that the call centre giants have stated their intent to create at least 400 jobs in both the Newry centre, based beside […]

Police investigate spate of burglaries in Newry and Armagh

Detectives in Newry are investigating a series of burglaries and suspicious incidents in the Armagh and Newry area over the weekend (Sat 30th June – Sun 1st July). The incidents reported include a creeper style burglary in the Baltarran Road area of Armagh at around 9:40pm on Sat evening (30th June). The house was broken […]

Bradley welcomes abandonment of Irish language funding proposals

SDLP Irish Language spokesperson Dominic Bradley has welcomed news from informed sources that Foras na Gaeilge is to abandon its controversial proposals to cut core funding from voluntary Irish Language organisations in favour of competitive tendering. Speaking to Newry Times, the Newry and Armagh MLA said: “I welcome this move by Foras to abandon the […]

Caroline O’Hanlon: ‘We’re ready to take on the world’

Local netball star Caroline O’Hanlon writes for the Newry Times from the World University Championships in South Africa. We’ve had our sights set on this event for the best part of a year, so it’s great to have arrived in Cape Town – and the fact we’re up against hosts South Africa in the tournament […]

New EU legislation to affect local drivers

Motorcyclists, bus drivers, lorry drivers and driving instructors in Newry are among those who will be affected by new EU legislation. Environment Minister Alex Attwood today confirmed the introduction, from 19th January 2013, of new legislation on driving licenses aimed at improving road safety in line with EU requirements. The changes are a direct result […]

‘Ulster Bank debacle is unacceptable’ – Clarke

Alliance Newcastle Councillor Patrick Clarke has called for answers from the Ulster Bank over the fiasco in which its customers did not get paid and many can still not access their accounts. Speaking to Newry Times, Clarke stated: “This has been an absolute fiasco on the part of Ulster Bank. Ulster Bank have serious questions […]

Unionist politicians call for ‘tolerance and respect’ for Newry Orange parade

Unionist politicians have called for tolerance and respect for the Orange parade due to be celebrated in Newry on 12th July 2012. The calls came from Ulster Unionist representative, Councillor David Taylor and DUP South Down MLA Jim Wells who were reacting after Newry Times exclusively revealed that local nationalist politicians were concerned about the […]

O’Hanlon heads Irish bid to top class

By Richard Bullick The remarkable Caroline O’Hanlon will be playing for her fifth team in little over a month when she leads the Irish Students’ challenge at this week’s World University Championships in South Africa. It has been an amazing few weeks even by the multi-talented Bessbrook woman’s peerless standards, with a memorable hat-trick of […]







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