PSNI in E District – which incorporates the Newry and Mourne area – are launching Farm Watch at a rural information afternoon in Mourne Country Hotel, 52 Belfast Road, Newry on Monday, 4th March at 2pm. The information event is aimed at the rural and agricultural community. PSNI’s Farm Watch is a crime prevention initiative […]
Newry Lord Mayor Councillor John McArdle has officially launched St. Patrick’s Day 2013 in Newry. As part of the plans, iconic buildings in the Newry and Mourne area will be illuminated green to celebrate the occasion. Newry Town (City) Hall, Sean Hollywood Arts Centre, The Cathedral of St. Patrick & St. Colman, St. Patrick’s High […]
Armagh-based Irish language organisation, Cairde Teo, are organising a hillwalking weekend in Carlingford, County Louth, as part of Seachtain na Gaeilge on Saturday 2nd March and Sunday 3rd March. There will be a hillwalk on Slieve Foy at 12 noon on Saturday under the guidance of experienced local hillwalker John Bruen. The group will be […]
The International European network “Small Size” has confirmed they plan to visit Newry this week in a bid to secure Newry as the hosting city for an international children’s theatre congress planned for 2014. It will see thousands of international visitors flock to Newry as part of a four day event to showcase the best […]
Newry Chamber of Commerce & Trade is hosting a ‘Meet & Greet the Media’ event in conjunction with Bellinis and Newry Times Newspaper on Thursday 28th February from 5.30 – 6.30pm in Bellinis. The goal of ‘Meet & Greet the Media’ is to enable Newry Chamber members to hear from leading media organisations on how […]
Newry Parish Centre would like to invite parishioners and people from the greater Newry area to an open event to view the facilities available at the new Newry Conference and Banqueting Centre on the Mall. The new centre adjacent to the existing Parish Centre on the Mall in the centre of the city has facilities […]
The Newry Branch of the Gaelic League officially launch Gaeláras Mhic Ardghail, the new Irish Language Cultural Centre, in Chapel Street, Newry on Monday 18th February 2013 at 7.00pm. This magnificent building provides educational, cultural and social facilities for the Irish Language Community of Newry and Mourne. The Gaeláras is the culmination of a hard-working […]
The Abbey Christian Brothers’ Grammar Newry is set to host platinum selling artists and the world record holders for the fastest selling UK debut album for a classical act, none other than, The Priests. The Priests exploded onto the mainstream with their debut album which has sold more than one million copies in Ireland alone, […]
For anyone who hasn’t seen Tom Hooper’s epic adaptation of Les Mis yet, what have you been doing? From beginning to end you cannot take your eyes off the screen in this powerful version of the West End show based on Victor Hugo’s novel, first published in 1862. Having recently celebrated its 25th anniversary on stage in […]
The 2011 census suggests that Ballybot, Newry’s west bank, lives up to its historical name as Newry’s poor town. Of course then, as now, the story is more complex, more diverse, more interesting than suggested in statistics. On Tuesday, 19th February at 8pm in the Buttercrane Shopping Centre the Old Newry Society, in the learned, […]
