
Sinn Féin’s Mickey Brady has said the upcoming Westminster election is an opportunity to vote against the Tory Brexit agenda and austerity. He made his comments after being reselected by his Party to fight to retain is seat in the Newry & Armagh constituency. Speaking at a Constituency Selection Meeting, the Sinn Féin candidate told […]

Social housing tenants in Northern Ireland are being offered a one-off opportunity to hand in their keys if they are committing tenancy fraud, as part of the Housing Executive and local Housing Associations ongoing drive to raise awareness of this type of activity. They have said that tenancy fraud wrongly and unfairly deprives someone of […]
May 2 2017 | Posted in
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Margaret and Chelsea Smyth from Ardglass are taking part in the 8 mile walk at Belfast City Marathon on 1st May to help raise much needed funds for Meningitis Research Foundation. Margaret’s dear friend, Naomi Bailie, contracted the deadly illness before Christmas. Naomi, a Sinn Fein councillor on Newry, Mourne and Down District Council, […]
Apr 29 2017 | Posted in
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Newry & Armagh Sinn Féin MLA Megan Fearon has said that claims by the Southern Trust that the Fracture Clinic in Daisy Hill is not being targeted are ‘wholly misleading’. The MLA raised the issue at the recent Board Meeting in Craigavon but the members and Trust Officers present refused to discuss it, Fearon said. […]
Apr 29 2017 | Posted in
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A 29 year old man has been charged with a total of 29 counts of theft. He is expected to appear in court in Newry tomorrow morning, Saturday 29th April. The charges relate to the theft of high value cars. The cars are believed to be worth an estimated half a million pounds in […]
Apr 28 2017 | Posted in
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SDLP Education Spokesperson Colin McGrath has said that savage cuts to schools as a result of James Brokenshire’s ‘indicative’ Tory budget are a taste of the austerity to come if power sharing fails. South Down MLA McGrath said that school budgets are already under enormous pressure – resulting in curriculum cuts and extra curricular restrictions. […]
Apr 28 2017 | Posted in
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Louth Sinn Féin TD Gerry Adams has said that any reduction in services at Newry’s Daisy Hill Hospital will have a detrimental impact on his constituents and on healthcare provision in Louth. Gerry Adams said, “The Southern Health and Social Care Trust have stated that the temporary overnight closure of the Emergency Department at Daisy […]
Apr 28 2017 | Posted in
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The Southern Health and Social Care Trust has agreed with the Department of Health to hold a regional summit on options to safely sustain the Emergency Department in Daisy Hill Hospital. It was confirmed at today’s Trust Board (27th April) that Trust Interim Chief Executive Stephen McNally has asked the Department to host the […]
Apr 27 2017 | Posted in
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It’s official – Emily and James were the most popular first names given to baby girls and boys in Northern Ireland for births registered in 2016. This is one of the findings of the Baby Names 2016 statistics published today by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency. Emily has been the most popular girls’ […]
Apr 27 2017 | Posted in
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PSNI Organised Crime detectives, accompanied by local Neighbourhood officers, carried out two searches in the Newry area on the morning of Wednesday 19th April. A quantity of cannabis with an estimated value of around £1100 was recovered. Article continues below: Additionally, drugs paraphernalia and a number of mobile phones were recovered. A 29 […]
Apr 26 2017 | Posted in
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