
The local branch of the SDLP is in turmoil today after one of its newly elected Councillors resigned from the party. 28 year old Newry City Councillor Kevin McAteer today declared that he will resign from the SDLP, effective immediately, and stand as an Independent. Speaking exclusively to Newry Times, Councillor McAteer, who was elected […]

The Newry & Mourne ME Fibromyalgia Support Group are delighted to announce that the Countess of Mar has agreed to become patron to the group. Lady Mar is an Independent Cross-Bench Peer in the House of Lords, member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on ME, and chair of the Forward-ME group in the UK. […]
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Newry’s Newpoint Players have been unveiled as one of the six finalists competing in the 2015 Ulster Drama Festival. The Festival, which is now in its 63rd year, showcases the very best of amateur drama in Ireland. Following a series of highly competitive heats the winners were unveiled and the running order announced at the […]

April 2nd marks the 8th annual World Autism Awareness Day when Autism Speaks will celebrate its “Light It Up Blue” campaign across the globe. Autism is one of three health issues that has been recognised with its own day by the United Nations. Sinn Féin MLA Cathal Boylan, who has represented the party for the […]
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Police in Newry have recovered a stolen vehicle during a patrol. Officers were on patrol in the Rathview Park area of Crossmaglen on Thursday, 26th March at around 9.30pm when they observed a black Range Rover. This vehicle had been reported stolen in the Republic of Ireland. The vehicle was recovered and the owner notified.
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Sinn Fein councillor Barra Ó Muirí has written to Translink requesting a meeting with them as soon as possible to address what he described as ‘the shambolic service’ in south Armagh. “I’ve been inundated in the last few weeks with calls from parents whose children haven’t been collected for school in Tullydonnell,” he said. “As […]
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Detectives from Organised Crime Branch investigating an international drugs trafficking operation have seized a further £200,000 of cannabis plants in Newry. Two men have also been arrested in Newry and Belfast. Detective Inspector Andy Dunlop, from Organised Crime Branch, said, “The cannabis factory was uncovered last night in Mallaghbawn outside Newry. “Cash was seized and […]
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Sinn Féin’s Mickey Brady has said that attacks and verbal abuse on A&E Hospital Staff have a huge personal cost. He was speaking after a man was jailed this week for six monthes after punching a doctor twice in the head. Dundalk man Michael Hanrahan assaulted the doctor last year in Daisy Hill Hospital, Newry […]
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Police in Newry have arrested a man for handling goods stolen in the Republic of Ireland. Police received a report of a white Toyota Avensis parked close to a school on Chequer Hill around 1pm on Wednesday, 18th March. Two men travelling in the car urinated close to the school before driving off. Officers made […]
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Sinn Fein councillor Roisin Mulgrew is calling for the implementation of a safety assessment in Whitecross, which recommended that a footpath be installed in the village. Last year the residents of Whitecross expressed their concerns about the safety of children and pedestrians in the St. Killian’s area of the village. In response to this Councillor […]
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