CLANRYE NEWS 
Newry, Mourne and Down District Council is investing £500,000 to help develop a new community centre featuring a multi-sports hall in Camlough. Working in partnership with Camlough Community Association, the new facility in the Slieve Gullion District Electoral Area (DEA) will cater for a number of sports and help meet the needs of a growing […]
Aontú Newry and Armagh representative Roisin Mulgrew has called on newly appointed Health Minister Robbie Butler to make a clear break from the approach of his predecessor and engage meaningfully with the Newry community over the future of Daisy Hill Hospital. “Mike Nesbitt’s resignation and the appointment of a new Health Minister provide an opportunity […]
Aontú representative Róisín Mulgrew has called for urgent action to address the shortage of social housing in Newry, Mourne and Down, after newly released figures showed that no social housing completions were recorded in the Council area during the first six months of 2026. Figures released by the Department of Finance show that Newry, Mourne […]
Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins has visited the recently refurbished Traffic Information and Control Centre (TICC) in Belfast. The Traffic Information and Control Centre has been refurbished to create a more collaborative working environment to deal with weather and other emergencies as well as traffic management across NI. The Centre runs 24 hours a day, seven […]
Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins has thanked Translink staff for their efforts in delivering vital public transport services during The Fleadh. She was speaking as she visited Laganside bus centre today with Translink’s new Chief Executive Gerard Carlin, where she met staff including bus and train drivers and those in the control centre, who are helping transport passengers to the city to experience the […]
By Donal McMahon A Co Armagh lake set for major leisure investment has been closed to the public over blue green algae blooms ahead of an annual water festival.Camlough lake has been earmarked for a £4.6million water sport facility with builders awarded a contract to develop site earlier this year. However, recent heatwave conditions have […]
Sinn Féin MP for Newry and Armagh, Dáire Hughes, has called for immediate action following an outbreak of blue-green algae at Camlough Lake. Dáire Hughes MP said; “The erection of signs at Camlough Lake warning of an outbreak of blue-green algae has frustrated the local community. This is not the first instance of an outbreak […]
Ms Grant speaking this morning after reading an article in a national newspaper about the heat wave afflicting Western Europe fuelled by the climate crisis and how low-income families are often the most disproportionately affected and women are always at the sharp end of the hardships.Ms Grant said this was not surprising because the working […]
Speaking in Stormont on Monday 29th June, SDLP Justin McNulty MLA asked Minister of Infrastructure Liz Kimmins whether she would commit full support to realising the enormous economic, tourism and environmental potential of the Newry Canal? Mr McNulty was questioning the Minister after her delivery of a statement on inland waterways. His question comes off the […]
Ms Grant has called on Translink to give a guarantee that in future every passenger who has a valid ticket is provided with the service they paid for. This call is being made following a serious incident on the 20th of June when 30 passengers who have bought tickets to travel on the last bus from Belfast to […]
Aontú’s Newry & Armagh Rep, Roisin Mulgrew, speaks out on the housing situation locally and the information obtained by Aontú that there has been a 50% rise in the waiting list for those waiting 5 years or more The 50% rise since 2021, in people waiting more than 5 years for housing in Newry, Mourne […]
Sinn Féin MP for Newry and Armagh, Dáire Hughes, has raised the issues surrounding maternity services at Daisy Hill Hospital. Speaking at Thursday’s Southern Trust Board meeting, Dáire Hughes said: “Last week’s suspension of services demonstrated the fragility of maternity at Daisy Hill Hospital. Whilst we understand the causes of this suspension and understand the […]