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By Donal McMahon The Department for Infrastructure (DfI) will not seek to engage with a Shared Island Unit over a proposed £50m Newry bridge design despite a council’s concerns. Plans for the Southern Relief Road bridge will look to link traffic from Warrenpoint harbour area to the A1 bypass for onward journeys to Belfast and Dublin. […]
The two week period of industrial action short of strike by union members at Newry, Mourne and Down District Council has concluded and Council are now working through the backlog of missed bin collections. WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 31 JULY If your Blue and Brown bin has not been collected on your normal collection day, please […]
Police can confirm that 35 year old Judith McMullan, from the Whitecross area, has died following a road traffic collision on the Mowhan Road, near Markethill, on Monday 31st July. Police received a report of a collision involving a black Seat Leon car and a Harley Davidson motorcycle shortly before 7.45pm on Monday evening. Officers […]
A classic 70s Celtic rock band, a rapper named after an ancient Irish hero, and a girl with a harp are part of the kaleidoscope of sights and sounds that will fill Newry during Iúr Cinn Fleadh over the August Bank Holiday weekend. Horslips band members Barry Devlin and Jim Lockhart will be in conversation while Oriel […]
The Board of Directors of Newry Chamber of Commerce has been informed of CEO, Tony McKeown’s intention to leave his role at the end of the summer to pursue other interests. Tony McKeown has been in the position of CEO for two years and in that time he has made a valuable contribution to the […]
POLARIS 1.3 6 Year Old – Malt/Pot Still Blend – Cask Strength – 58.3% We journey into the wonders of whiskey with the final release of the Polaris Red Ice Wine Collection from Newry based Two Stacks Whiskey. The third and final edition of the Red Ice Wine cask edition of Polaris is here. The […]
Police car rammed and two police officers injured in Crossmaglen on Sunday, 30th July. Neighbourhood Policing Inspector for South Armagh Adam Corner said: “At around 9.10pm local neighbourhood officers, who were conducting proactive patrols, attempted to stop a car acting suspiciously in the Cullaville Road area. The vehicle, a red Hyundai i20, failed to stop […]
Newry SDLP Councillor Michael Savage has condemned an arson attack in the city in the early hours of Sunday morning. A wheelie bin was pushed across the front door of the terraced home in Stream Street and set on fire and the couple inside were trapped upstairs and had to escape through a balcony at […]
Detectives in Newry are appealing for witnesses and information after a reported arson attack in the city. Detective Sergeant Dougherty said: “Just after 4.40am today, Sunday 30th July, we received a report from our colleagues in Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service of a fire at a residential property in the Stream Street area. “They […]
£204,577 to Community Restorative Justice Newry/Armagh Seventeen projects across Northern Ireland and the southern border counties have received £3,074,086/ €3,473,717 to deliver peace and reconciliation initiatives. The funding from the International Fund for Ireland (IFI) enables peacebuilding efforts within some of the most marginalised communities who continue to live with the long-term impact of The […]
Detectives from the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s Organised Crime Unit, in partnership with their UK counterparts, North West Regional Organised Crime Unit, conducted a number of searches in England and Northern Ireland today, Thursday 27th July. The searches are part of an ongoing investigation into criminality linked to drug importation and follows a search […]
By Kevin McAteer A new group is being established to work with the Southern Health Trust to implement the ongoing stabilisation plans for acute inpatient medical services at Daisy Hill Hospital, and to support the development of a longer term plan for the future of the Newry Hospital. The stabilisation plans, which were agreed at […]
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