
“Water makes the world go round.” This is just one interesting fact pupils of Rathore School in Newry learnt when NI Water’s education team came to visit to teach them all about the water cycle. NI Water’s educational programme, ‘H2O and the Wonderful World of Water’, taught the children all about the Water Cycle. Children […]
Oct 10 2016 | Posted in
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, so the Public Health Agency (PHA) is urging all women to ‘be breast aware’ and to think about attending for screening when invited. In 2014/15 a total of 76,661 women aged 50–70 were invited for screening, with 57,758 attending. This means that over three quarters of the women who […]
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Sinn Féin MLA Conor Murphy has said the British and Irish governments need to act to break a log jam, which is holding up €120m of European funding. “My party colleague and Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir told the Assembly that there is currently a log jam of letters of offer for EU funding worth […]
Oct 10 2016 | Posted in
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Sinn Féin MLA Megan Fearon has said a panel of redress should be set up to meet the needs of victims and survivors of child abuse. “Sinn Féin has consistently supported the call from victims and survivors, and from experts, to establish a panel to redress the needs of the groups and individual victims,” she […]
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Newry Sinn Féin MLA Conor Murphy has welcomed the Taoiseach’s commitment to establish an all Ireland body to consider the implications of Brexit. “As a representative of a border area I welcome the Taoiseach’s commitment to an island-wide process to discuss the implications of an EU exit,” he said. “It would be useful if he […]
Oct 7 2016 | Posted in
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Sinn Féin MLA Megan Fearon has welcomed support for a Sinn Féin amendment on the closure of rural banks. “This was an important issue calling for equivalence of services for rural dwellers. I welcome the support the Sinn Féin amendment received from members of the DUP, Alliance, the Green Party and PBP,” she stated. “We […]
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A proposal to accelerate the start of the statutory assessment process for pupils with Special Educational Needs (SEN) has come into operation. The first Commencement Order of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 allows the Education Authority (EA) to proceed with the statutory assessment process for pupils with SEN in 22 […]
Oct 7 2016 | Posted in
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SDLP MP for South Down has reiterated her call for an independent inquiry into safety risks at the Sellafield nuclear power plant following the publication of the seventeenth Report of the Department of Health’s expert committee, the Committee on the Aspects of Radiation in the Environment (COMARE). Speaking to Newry Times, Ritchie said, “With a […]
Oct 7 2016 | Posted in
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The Brain Injury Foundation has announced the purchase of the former INF social club which adjoins their current Centre of Excellence for Brain Injury in Camlough. Speaking to Newry Times, Frank Dolaghan, Chair of the Foundation, said, “Brain injury is often seen as a thief which steals away many aspects of the lives of survivors […]
Oct 6 2016 | Posted in
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In a month where pedestrians have taken some serious risks on the rail network including a near miss involving a youth near Jordanstown, Translink has revealed its top areas for trespass incidents. Since the beginning of summer this year there have been over 304 recorded incidents of pedestrian trespass. Eight of these took place at […]
Oct 6 2016 | Posted in
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