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Incorporating the Down Democrat
Incorporating the Down Democrat
Wed, May 22, 2013
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
POLICE and the Fire and Rescue Service are investigating the cause of a fire that all but destroyed Mourne Park House in...
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
ALL the pupils and staff at a Warrenpoint primary school will travel to Stormont tomorrow (Wednesday) in a bid to have t...
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
A NEWRY woman has been convicted of two counts of blackmail which saw her use the deaths of a man's wife and child to tr...
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
A STRONG and joined-up strategy is needed now to tackle the district's giant hogweed problem, writes Claire Treanor.That...
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
NEWRY'S operatic superstar Carla Maney has said it may be the end of her time on The Voice but it's certainly not the la...
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
CARLINGFORD is hatching a plan that's sure to ruffle a few feathers as people flock to the town for its latest Gathering...
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
A DIRECT link between care home closures and a steep rise in deaths among residents has been found by a leading UK-based...
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
AS polling day in the Crossmaglen / Creggan Upper United Ireland mock referendum edges closer, a series of events have b...
Tuesday, 7 May 2013
A DOCTOR from Rostrevor has become the first person in the UK to receive a prestigious European award for developing a d...
Tuesday, 7 May 2013
AS calls for a border poll continue to fall on the British Secretary of State's deaf ears, one community group in the so...
Tuesday, 7 May 2013
FEELINGS were running high in Meigh last week at a public meeting convened to discuss the delay in setting up a new doct...
Tuesday, 7 May 2013
DEFIANT residents at Cloughreagh House have been given a stay of execution after the Health Minister scrapped Southern T...
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
I WOULD rather die than leave here.Those are the heartbreaking words of 100-year-old Biddy Kauffman following the news t...
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
THE father of a Newry tot who underwent major open-heart surgery earlier this year said he will continue to fight for th...
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
THE Southern Trust has been challenged to explain what care packages they intend to put in place for residents following...
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
THE hardship fund agreed by the Agriculture Minister must extend to include those farmers who weren't affected by the lo...
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
NEWRY singing sensation Carla Maney insists she and her stage partner Barbara Kelly can go all the way in The Voice afte...
Monday, 22 April 2013
A NUMBER of fundraising events will take place in Newry next month to raise money for Marie Curie Cancer following the d...
Monday, 22 April 2013
DAISY Hill's Stroke Unit may yet survive after the Department of Health insisted no decision on its future will be made ...
Monday, 22 April 2013
A WAR of words has broken out between two former party colleagues over an event commemorating the Easter Rising.Ulster U...
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
THE young son of tragic Villa Rovers star Michael McCaughey, who died after a fall at the weekend, has been told his dad...
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
IT may be far from glamorous, but this world would be a much messier place without the nifty nappy.And now it's set to t...
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
A NEWRY man convicted of sexual assaults against two teenage girls appeared in a child safety advertising campaign shown...
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
DAISY HILL Hospital is to lose its Stroke and Rehabilitation Unit in a move that's been branded "a return to the very wo...
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
COUNCIL has defeated its own policies and PR by handing over its Cycle 2 Work scheme from local businesses to a national...
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
A NEWRY man has taken the title of Mastermind 2013.Dr Aidan McQuade of Newtowncloughogue is the director of Anti-Slavery...
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
DAISY Hill's infant intensive care provision has been branded "unacceptable" after the Southern Health and Social Care T...
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
SHOPPERS in Newry are divided over the new carrier bag tax that came into effect yesterday.People are now being charged ...
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
THE former Northern Bank building in Warrenpoint should be transformed into a community museum showcasing the seaside to...
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
DUMPERS are destroying Ballintemple Viewpoint. That's according to Fews councillor John Feehan who said that visitors t...
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
AN explosion in Bessbrook at the weekend had such force that the blast was heard as far away as Meigh. Police would not...
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
MORE than 30 wild horses and ponies rescued from a bitterly cold mountainside face being put down. Despite having been ...
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
OBJECTIONS raised by Mayobridge residents to the development of a tyre depot in the village have been borne out by the f...
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
IF there is indeed a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, Carlingford's the best bet for finding it, with the area attra...
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
A PREGNANT woman had to be chair-lifted from her flooded home in Rostrevor at the weekend.St Jude's Park, where the woma...
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
A NEWRY man who reactivated guns for dissident republicans has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison.Bryan ...
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
A NEWRY actress and film producer has been convicted of taking part in a £2.8m fraud attempt centred around a fake movie...
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
HERE'S a conundrum for you puzzle fans out there.How do you turn a journey of less than 15 miles into one of almost 700 ...
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
MORE than 300 officers from the Gardai, PSNI, Revenue and Customs and the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) were involved in ...
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
THE trial of a former scout leader accused of 70 counts of historical sex abuse against four boys has lost its second ju...
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
NEWRY is gearing up for the biggest and best St Patrick's Day yet.A week of events celebrating Irish and international h...
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
NEWRY is set for a five-acre city centre park after the Christian Brothers donated the sprawling Abbey Park grounds to N...
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
A NEWRY man is suspected of carrying out a violent sexual assault against a stranger he snatched from the street.Daniel ...
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
THE trial of a former scout leader accused of 70 counts of historical sex abuse against four boys came to an abrupt halt...
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
THIS is the huge basking shark that was hauled into Kilkeel Harbour.The carcass, measuring between 15-20ft and believed ...
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
POLICE in Newry have seized another huge haul of suspected cannabis.Officers from E District Tactical Crime Unit recover...
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
THE trial against a former scout leader from Bessbrook has reopened after being aborted earlier in the year when the jur...
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
A FOREIGN national with barely any English was violently mugged when he mistakenly got off the bus at Newry instead of B...
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
THE close-knit community of Mayobridge is in shock and mourning after the tragic death of little Daniel Grant on Saturda...
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
THERE aren't too many people who could look at Newry and Armagh MLA Mickey Brady and see a baby but then again, Sarah Br...
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
A NEWRY man charged with possessing "thousands of photographs of police" which were likely to be of use to terrorists ha...
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
BUSINESS owners across the district reacted with dismay when the council announced that rates would increase by 1.3 per ...
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
DANSKE Bank's decision to close down its Warrenpoint branch has been blasted as a "sickeneing snub to the local communit...
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
IT was once every young boy's dream; heading off to unknown territory, pitching a tent, living off the land and explorin...
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
NEWRY and Mourne Council is discriminating against Protestants. That's the view of Councillor Henry Reilly who was speak...
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
FORMER Ulster Unionist MLA John McCallister will remain in politics and intends to contest the next Assembly elections i...
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
A NEWRY company that found itself at the centre of the horse meat scandal has been backed by local organisations and ind...
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
IT'S the most romantic day of the year on Thursday - and one Newry couple who this month celebrate their golden annivers...
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
A NEWRY man who admitted causing the death of a child with his speedboat at Cranfield beach in 2010 looks unlikely to fa...
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
A LEADING Newry businessman has described Newry and Mourne Council as "arrogant" after it was confirmed that the cost of...
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
A NEW community project is to take people on a trip through the storied history of the Drumalane and Albert Basin areas ...
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
A FORMER All Ireland winning captain of Crossmaglen Rangers has blamed the team's loss to Maghery for the fact that he w...
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
A NEWRY priest convicted of indecently assaulting a teenager had been in a seven-year relationship with her.The revelati...
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
THE Jobs and Benefits Office in Crossmaglen is likely to be closed down as part of a review of Community Benefits Office...
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
A DAMNING inspection report into a Newry care home found it to be failing across four categories of legislative standard...
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
THE PSNI is working with An Garda Síochána to investigate a possible link between a burnt out car that was discovered ne...
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
POLITICAL representatives from south Down have urged the Finance Minister Sammy Wilson to approve funding for the Narrow...
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
SDLP councillors stormed out of a rates meeting last week when they discovered a Sinn Fein councillor had been posting d...
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
BURGLARS that broke into two primary schools in the district and ransacked offices have been accused of attacking the co...
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
NEWRY was braced for blizzards over the weekend as forecasts warned that snow was about to engulf it.Somehow the city es...
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
MOTORISTS have cause to celebrate this week as one of the most frustrating aspects of driving in Newry is to be eased.Pa...
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
INVESTMENT in Daisy Hill Hospital flies in the face of fears that it faces "terminal decline".That's the message from So...
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
THE parents of a little girl who passed away after she was stricken by a brain tumour have shared their heartbreaking st...
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
WOMEN will know that good underwear is the foundation for feeling confident underneath your clothes.But for those who've...
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
DAISY Hill Hospital faces "terminal decline" and a "one-way death care pathway".That's the stark warning from the SDLP's...
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
AROUND 150 people participated in a white line picket in Newry on Saturday in support of Stephen Murney.The Newry man an...
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
REGENERATION plans for Merchants Quay in Newry could be the final nail in the coffin for small independent businesses in...
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
A NEWRY man has said it was "a miracle" that nobody was killed when a car smashed through his gates and slammed into his...
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
STORMONT Minister Danny Kennedy has pledged to continue to seek an apology from the Irish government for what he describ...
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
A RESIDENTS group opposed to plans for a car ferry service from Greencastle to Greenore have claimed that the £6m projec...
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
A REVIEW team has been set up to investigate the circumstances of the tragic death of a 12-year-old at Daisy Hill Hospit...
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
CHRISTMAS came late to Newry this year, with shoppers waiting until the last minute to snap up their festive buys.Both o...
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
THE man behind new proposals for a cross-border car ferry service from Greencastle to Greenore believes the project woul...
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
Whether you want to kick start the new year's resolution to lose weight, stop smoking or simply want to relax in a hot s...
Tuesday, 25 December 2012
WHILE most of us will laze about the house on Christmas Day, unable to move after overindulging on turkey, ham and Quali...
Tuesday, 25 December 2012
A NEWRY university student has helped Northern Ireland mental health charity MindWise win a prestigious volunteering awa...
Tuesday, 25 December 2012
TWO men who ran a sandwich bar in a Newry shopping centre have been disqualified from directing a company for five years...
Tuesday, 25 December 2012
NEWRY and Mourne has the third highest level of crime in the north outside of Belfast. New figures released by the N...
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
If you think you're busy in the run up to the festive season, spare a thought for Santa! This week the Newry Democrat p...
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
A MAYOBRIDGE photographer whose home was targeted in a bomb attack has challenged those who left the device at his house...
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
SDLP councillor Connaire McGreevy has said the party was not wrong to support the naming of Raymond McCreesh Park.Howeve...
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
A NEWRY priest will be sentenced in January on four counts of indecent assault on a female after his case was adjourned ...
Tuesday, 11 December 2012
THE emergency services have received widespread praise after reacting swiftly to the outbreak of a toxic substance in Wa...
Tuesday, 11 December 2012
For many the existence or non-existence of ghosts is a matter of faith but one group of intrepid explorers is out for pr...
Tuesday, 11 December 2012
THE Carnbane League is set to investigate an allegation of racism.The League has confirmed to the Democrat that it is aw...
Tuesday, 11 December 2012
HALF of all pensioners living in Newry and Mourne cannot afford to heat their homes adequately this winter, a new report...
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Warehouse industrial chic, exposed brick and block, caged lights and clean coolness of brushed metallic surfaces are the...
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
A CAMPAIGN by relatives of those murdered at Kingmills to see a Newry park renamed may have been the motivation behind a...
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
A POLITICAL activist from Newry has been arrested on charges related to dissident republican activity. Stephen Murne...
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
A SPECIAL team is to be set up tonight (Tuesday) to investigate allegations that a Crossmaglen footballer was called a '...
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
AN armed robbery at a Credit Union in Forkhill has been described as a "vicious criminal act," by one of the area's MLAs...
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
HALF of all the fuel laundering plants dismantled in the north this year were discovered in Newry and Mourne.Revenue and...
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
THERE was a time when stargazing in Newry and Mourne meant having to adjust your head upwards but these days you can har...
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
A TEENAGE boy and a 20-year-old man have been bailed by police on suspicion of arson after the Albert Basin in Newry was...
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
A YEAR of centenary celebrations has drawn to a close for one of Newry's first scouting groups.But the memories will liv...
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
THE dumping of toxic waste beside a river in south Armagh has been branded as "despicable."Councillor Terry Hearty conde...
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
A SECRET witness has put the two men suspected of killing Marion Graham and Cathy Dinsmore near the scene of the brutal ...
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
A NEWRY woman whose home was targeted in a horrendous attack has blasted Newry Courthouse over the sentences handed down...
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
BISHOP of Dromore, John McAreavey is taking a break from the diocese to travel to the Holy Land, writes Claire Treanor.T...
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
A CROSSMAGLEN man fears his life is under threat after his car was rammed into a wall he'd built around his home to prot...
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
A MAYOBRIDGE teenager with a heart of gold has been named runner-up in a UK-wide Macmillan Cancer Support and Silver Spo...
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
A SUSPECTED sex predator from Newry currently awaiting trial on accusations of multiple indecent assaults, false impriso...
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
NEWRY and Mourne is in the grip of a cancer "epidemic" - and co-chair of the INFLA (Irish Nuclear Free Local Authorities...
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
SINN Fein councillor Pat McGinn has said the "reckless actions" of those responsible for gorse fires are putting lives a...
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
A CO Down sports therapist was one of 5,000 lucky runners to be the first to cross the finishing line at the new Olympic...
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
A SHAKE-UP of council boundaries under the Review of Public Administration is set to see future council candidates in Wa...
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
FRIENDS of a former Bessbrook woman who is fighting a life-threatening illness in New York have urged people to get behi...
