To mark ‘World Suicide Awareness Day’ on Monday 10th September 2012, PIPS Newry & Mourne has invited the local community and all interested parties to attend their annual Balloon Release Event at 1pm outside the Newry Town Hall. Various events and activities are held during this occasion to raise awareness that suicide is a major […]
Cancer Research’s Newry Branch has announced details of their forthcoming Charity Golf Classic which is taking place in Tandragee Golf Club on Friday 14th September. There will be wonderful prizes to be won for the four ball competition as well as prizes for ‘Nearest to the Pin’ and ‘Longest Drive’. The Newry fundraising committee told […]
O.K… so you’ve always wanted to learn how to dance yeah? But you’ve never had the time or didn’t know where to go. Well, lucky for you, two supremely talented Newry dancers are about to take you on an epic journey of social dancing. Gerald and Patricia Malone have been dancing for over 25 years […]
Newry and Mourne District council has announced that the Ross Monument in Rostrevor will be open between 9am and 5pm on Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th of September. Eminent military historian and local author, Dr. John McCavitt, will be conducting tours of this Egyptian obelisk on both days which is part of the celebrations of […]
This Saturday will see the return of Vikings to Slieve Gullion Courtyard, but it’s not an invasion, it’s a family fun day organised by the Ring of Gullion AONB and Enspire. “It’s been a while” said Enspire’s Viking leader Thomas Whitebeard, “We thought we’d come back and see how the place is getting on… My […]
Mayor of Newry and Mourne District Council, Councillor John McArdle, has confirmed that the Paralympic Flame will travel to the Newry and Mourne District on Saturday 25th August. Following the very successful Olympic Torch run and evening ceremony held in Newry at the beginning of June, the Paralympic Flame will travel from Belfast to Newry on […]
With just over a week to go to the start of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, ‘Sacrilege’, the life-sized inflatable replica of Stonehenge for people to bounce on by Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller, is coming to Frank Curran Park, Newry on Tuesday 28th August as part of a tour that will see it travel […]
Do you love seafood? Then don’t miss the annual Fishfest in Kilkeel over the August Bank Holiday Weekend, 24th – 27th August. It starts on Friday 24th August at 7.30pm with a guided Heritage Walk of Cranfield Beach, departing from the Beachcomber Café, Chestnutt Holiday Park, Cranfield West. On Saturday 25th August at 12noon you […]
As part of the Samaritans’ annual awareness day ’24:7′, volunteers from the Newry Branch are preparing for the arrival of David Exley, a Samaritans volunteer, who is motorcycling around the UK and Ireland to raise awareness of the charity. Covering more than 6,000 miles on his motorbike, David will visit each of the 201 Samaritans […]
The Bar One Racing ‘Dual Race Day’ will take place at Dundalk Stadium’s all-weather horse and greyhound track on Sunday 19th August 2012. Horse racing will commence at 2.10pm with a 7 race card and the greyhound racing will take place in the evening at 7:30pm with the annual Bar One Racing Irish Sprint Cup […]
