BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Correspondents used to compete in the letters page of the Times to register the first cuckoo of the spring. A colleague tells me he recently spotted an Alban Maginness SDLP European election poster on a post close to Junction One, the Antrim Ballymena turn off from the M2. Is this a record? Any nominations for other long lasting election posters?
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
About 140 jobs are expected to go at a poultry processing plant in Ballymena, County Antrim.
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
YOU might have thought that when we fork out £57,000 for the Paisleys’ Ballymena Advice Centre that it would be enough - seeing as it’s three times what any other MLA claims (ker-ching!), is well above what is regarded as the market rental value (ker-ching!), is paid to a company run by a DUP councillor (ker-ching!) and means you and I are effectively funding the creation a DUP asset...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Aaron Black's ninth-minute penalty is enough to earn Crusaders a place in the Paddy Power County Antrim Shield final.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Latest scores from the Co Antrim Shield semi-final between Crusaders and Ballymena plus the League of Ireland clash between Derry City and Sligo Rovers
BBC News (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
Linfield come from a goal down to beat Glentoran 2-1 while Cliftonville, Crusaders and Ballymena also make the semi-finals of the County Antrim Shield.
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
Three people were treated for shock after a gun attack on a house in Ballymena, Co Antrim today.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 01/09/2009
Drugs worth £500,000 are seized by the police in Ballymena, County Antrim.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 30/08/2009
A petrol bomb attack on a house in Ballymena, County Antrim, is being investigated.
The Reverend Garibaldi McFlurry (Free subscription) | 29/08/2009
It's the last major parade of the summer marching season today- Black Saturday or the Last Saturday in August. Sir Knights from Royal Black Preceptories from across Northern Ireland and the border counties of the Republic will gather to parade at six county demonstrations. County Antrim are parading in Lisburn, County Londonderry are in Castlerock, Armagh and East Tyrone will gather in Killylea, West...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 13/08/2009
BBC 12 Aug 09 The home of former police ombudsman Dame Nuala O'Loan and her SDLP assembly member husband Declan has been targeted in a sectarian attack. Paint was thrown on their house in the Oldpark Avenue area of Ballymena at about 0400 BST on Wednesday. Mr O'Loan said it "was a regrettable incident which the police were actively investigating." "No immediate motive is known, but...
The Pink Heart Society (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
Kate Walker writes about the Irish actor who was the inspiration for one of her earlier heroes Back in 1996 I wrote a book titled Flirting With Danger - you could have titles like that thirteen years ago. You could also have more heroes who weren’t the Mediterranean types or sheikhs that are so popular now. So my hero in this book was called Evan Lindsay and he was described like this: This Evan...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 02/08/2009
Two teenagers carry out an armed robbery at a grocery shop in Ballymena, County Antrim.
Crime Always Pays (Free subscription) | 30/07/2009
Garbhan Downey has been kind enough to offer an insight into the genesis of his latest screwball crime fiction, WAR OF THE BLUE ROSES, in which he offers ‘a novel solution to the Northern Ireland’s parades issue’. For those of you unfamiliar with the ‘parades issue’, it’s a phenomenon in Norn Iron in which the Loyalist Orangemen have loads of marches to celebrate...
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