
Are you interested in bats? Would you like to find out more about these creatures of the night? Come along to the Council’s two ‘Bat Nights’ being held this August in the Fairy Glen, Rostrevor and Castlewellan Forest Park. The truth about these misunderstood flying mammals will be revealed along with the “old wives tales” […]

Friends of the Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust invite you to take part in their first annual Golf Classic at Clover Hill Golf Club, situated at the foot of Slieve Gullion mountain in Mullaghbawn, Co.Armagh on Saturday 29th August 2015. The format for the day is a four-ball scramble. This is a fun and fast way […]

Newry and Armagh MLA Dominic Bradley attended the rehearsals of ‘The Last Five Years’ on Friday afternoon at the Abbey Grammar School in Newry. The SDLP MLA was there to witness the final touches being put to the depiction of the cult show by the self-financing Independent ‘Lost Ticket Theatre Company’ – a collective of […]

The Newcastle Summer Season live entertainment programme promises a fantastic final weekend of live music with tribute acts to some of the world’s most celebrated entertainers. The Elvis Spectacular, starring Ciaran Houlihan, will get the weekend off to a great start at 8pm on Friday 21st August and The Bjorn Identity ® will make sure […]

Get in touch with nature this week with a nature walk in Slieve Gullion Forest Park on Wednesday 12th August or find out more about plants and mini-beasts in Derrymore House, Bessbrook on Thursday 13th August. Join the Ring of Gullion Landscape AONB and Landscape Partnership Scheme for these free events to discover the fabulous […]

There will be laughs-a-plenty in store for Newcastle Summer Season audiences with William Caulfield: Me, Myself and I at 8pm on Friday 14th August and the brand new comedy from Theatre 3 Newtownabbey, Separate Beds at 8pm on Saturday 15th August in the Newcastle Centre. The ever-popular comedian William Caulfield is back on tour again […]

The 2015 edition of Iúr Cinn Fleadh, the country’s newest traditional Irish music festival, was launched today at Bellinis by Naomi Baili, Chairperson of Newry, Mourne and Down Council. This year’s festival will take place on 10th – 13th September. Now in its second year, Iúr Cinn Fleadh draws on widely acclaimed artists from across […]

An ambitious group of teenagers from Newry are staging their own do-it-yourself musical after raising thousands of pounds by busking and by playing at weddings and birthday parties. In a climate of cutbacks in arts budgets, the self-financed production of the cult show The Last Five Years will open later this month without the aid […]

Daniel Mallon, Kiera Hughes and Barbara Beattie are calling on the residents of the Newry and Armagh communities to walk for a world without dementia as part of the Alzheimer’s Society’s biggest annual fundraising event, Memory Walk. The walk will start from Mallon’s Funeral Home beside the Old Mill on Mill Road in Bessbrook on […]

Members of Sinn Féin Republican Youth are staging a sit out in Newry this week to raise awareness about homelessness in the city and the devastating effects austerity is having on low and middle income families. Around 20 members of Óige Oirialla will take part in the event which will raise money for the Simon […]