
Dear Editor, As you are probably aware, there was a meeting last Monday night between farmers of the Mourne AONB, Fermanagh Lakes and the Causeway Coast and Glens and Minister Alex Attwood with regard to the National Park issue. There was an overwhelming ‘No’ vote at the end of the meeting. A further meeting was […]

Dear Editor, In a mixed judgment, the High Court in Britain on Monday [August 6th] ruled that regulations through which the British government has created many of its ‘Workfare’ schemes are lawful but that the decision of the Department of Work and Pensions [DWP] to strip clients of benefits for six months for refusing to […]

Dear Editor, Many will no doubt be accustomed to the ongoing battle being waged by parties within the Stormont Executive to stamp out dissent and criticism from republican quarters. Indeed, most observers will be all too familiar with the Stormont parties’ attacks on political opposition to the Executive’s role in the maintenance of partition and […]

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 […]

Sinn Fein Councillor Pat McGinn has contacted Newry Times in response to this letter which appeared on Newry Times this week. Letters to the Editor, ‘Sinn Fein cost you more’ Dear Editor, Your recently published letter from ratepayer Mr John McCabe in relation to the cost of local government is nasty, biased, personal and ill […]

Dear Editor In times of economic hardship and austerity the ratepayers have had to make financial concessions and cutbacks upon the family budget. On heating fuel costs, food, clothing, motoring costs and schooling needs to name a few. Meanwhile at Newry’s Monaghan Row council offices and chamber an unscrupulous practice of squandering the rate payer’s […]

Dear Editor, Sunday [June 10] was just a normal evening for the colonial forces in Newry with the continuation of an ongoing campaign of harassment, intimidation and violence being waged against the local population by the PSNI. In the most recent incident a local republican was viciously assaulted and arrested by the PSNI during a […]

Dear Editor, During the recent ‘community relations week’ in the Six Counties (May 12th-19th), various Stormont ministers, MLAs, members of publicly-funded quangos, media commentators and others, all queued up to address the problem of “sectarianism within society”. A report published by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and Trademark during “community relations week” exposed the […]

Dear Editor, There is I believe a superb and a very golden opportunity to promote the Arboretum, walled garden and indeed the history surrounding the Annesley family at Castlewellan Forest Park. Such a vision needs to be fully and truly grasped for future generations to enjoy and share such a natural and beautiful place falling […]

Dear Editor, I was getting my disabled mum home from hospital a few days ago and I rang a local taxi firm who have a phone and poster in Daisy Hill foyer advertising wheelchair transport. I rang them and they said they had ‘no wheelchair accessible taxis on’ so I rang another local taxi firm […]