British National Party (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The British National Party has appointed a new organiser in South East Antrim, Paul Stevens, it was announced at the party’s first public meeting in the historic town of Larne in Co Antrim.
ireland.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Catholic priest from Co Antrim has been arrested by detectives investigating the alleged sexual abuse of a boy in the 1970s, police revealed today.
Brian's Study Breaks (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Several years ago, I heard a senior historian of the modern Middle East express surprise that there were still topics left unstudied in the history of what, borrowing a European term but changing its meaning, we call the medieval period. Far from it - in fact, I'd say we're just getting started approaching the era at the level that other fields of history with similar issues take for granted. This...
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
A prominent republican accused of murdering two British soldiers outside an Antrim army base was refused High Court bail today.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Policing board member Alex Attwood says two attempts to murder police officers this weekend shows dissidents are 'broadening scale' Republican dissidents are widening their terror attacks across Northern Ireland, a member of the province's policing board warned today after two separate attempts to murder police officers at the weekend. Two men were arrested following a gun attack on officers in Co...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
BBC 21 Nov 09 Shots have been fired at police in a County Fermanagh village close to the border with the Irish Republic. Officers returned fire when they came under attack in the village of Garrison, 20 miles from Enniskillen, on Saturday evening. Police have sealed off the area and are searching nearby woodland but there have been no reports of any injuries. Security officials believe that dissident...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
While the SDLP have a very serious fight for the position of new leader, the psephologists' guru and Alliance Party Director, Gerry Lynch, has taken campaigning to be a party candidate to a new level in local politics with the launch of a dedicated website for his push to run in the East Antrim Westminster seat. As he is normally associated with North Belfast does this indicate Sean Neeson will be...
Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The media has already established its angle on the North Antrim general election contest. It’s all about Jim Allister and whichever Paisley is nominated to rebuff his challenge. To a degree the preoccupation with the DUP / TUV contest is understandable. After all, in 2005 Senior romped home with more than 25,000 votes and Ulster Unionist candidate, Rodney McCune, was beaten to second spot by...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A white-tailed sea eagle which was found dead in Lough Neagh, County Antrim, is suspected to have been shot.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A new drop-in centre has been opened in Antrim for the increasing numbers of people in NI suffering from allergies.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
About 140 jobs are expected to go at a poultry processing plant in Ballymena, County Antrim.
Belfast Media | Home (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A father whose wife and young son were killed the week before Christmas by a so-called joyrider has said he is “sickened” after a convicted West Belfast death driver was jailed for dangerous driving on the same stretch of road. Harry Marley, 27, was released from prison last year after serving six years for killing West Belfast teenager Debbie McComb on the Upper Springfield Road in March...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
DENVER, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DCP Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: DPM) (the "Partnership") today announced that it has entered into an agreement with MichCon Pipeline Company, a subsidiary of DTE Energy, to acquire certain natural gas gathering and treating assets for $45.1 million in cash. The assets are located in northern Michigan adjacent to the Partnership's existing assets....
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
BBC 17 Nov 09 The flight marks the end of the RAF using Northern Ireland as a base The last RAF squadron based in Northern Ireland has left Aldergrove, the Ministry of Defence has said. On Tuesday morning 230 "Tiger" Squadron took off in a helicopter diamond formation from Aldergrove for their new base at RAF Benson in Oxfordshire. The flight of the Pumas marked the end of the RAF's 91-year...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
BBC 17 Nov 09 A former IRA woman who was jailed for bombing the Old Bailey in London, has been arrested in connection with the shooting of two soldiers in Antrim. Marian Price, who is 55, was arrested in west Belfast on Tuesday. Marian Price is being questioned by police She is being held in connection with the Real IRA murders of two soldiers at Massereene Army base in March. A 39-year-old man was...
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