ireland.com (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
A 19 year-old man is due to appear before Belfast Magistrates’ Court this morning charged with attempted murder after an incident at an Antrim checkpoint yesterday morning.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
SEVERE RAINFALL has caused havoc across several Ulster counties with Monaghan, Armagh, Down and Antrim - especially Belfast city - worst affected.
Irish Blogs (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
William Homes Smiles, who founded the Belfast Rope Works in the early 1870s,was the son of Dr Samual Smiles,the author of the Victorian classic,Self Help. William Smiles lived at Westbank House on the Palmerston Road Sydenham Belfast Co Antrim Northern Ireland. Mrs Lucy Smiles was half sister to Mrs Beeton the Victorian cookery expert. The Smiles family had eleven children. William Smiles and Gustav...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Republican Sinn Féin will be marking the anniversary of the reintroduction of internment in 1971 with pickets in Counties Antrim and Clare . On Saturday, 9th August, a white-line picket will commence on the Falls Road in Belfast at 1:30p.m. A picket will also take place on the Clare Road in Ennis from 2p.m. Until 5p.m. Both pickets are being held in solidarity with Republican prisoners currently incarcerated...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Mid Ulster Mail 06 August 2008 SPEAKING at the Counties Derry and Antrim Republican commemoratation in Gulladuff on Sunday, Sinn Féin Junior Minister and MLA for North Belfast, Gerry Kelly committed his party to the achievement of republican objectives - Irish Unity, Prosperity and Equality . In a wide ranging speech, the leading republican activist paid tribute to the area's republican dead and made...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
Firefighters dealt with 49 incidents at bonfires last night , coming under attack in counties Antrim and Londonderry with stones thrown at them in four incidents. Four derelict properties caght fire in east Belfast and a house and Woodstock Library were damaged by heat from bonfires and an orange lodge hall was attacked in county Antrim. Meanwhile two men were arrrested in Portadown when police were...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
News Letter Exiled UDA leader Johnny Adair is reportedly in the final stages of returning to Northern Ireland. The loyalist leader was exiled from the Shankill Road area of Belfast by rivals in 2005 and has since been living in Great Britain. Media reports claim that Adair has been seen in Antrim with his son, Jonathan. According to one report, he said: "I can confirm that I'm back in Northern Ireland...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
ALL-IRELAND QUALIFIER PHASE ONE Galway 6-20 Antrim 1-10: GALWAY TOOK to the air for their visit to Belfast on Saturday and then flew through a one-sided, no-contest All-Ireland qualifier against a deflated Antrim at Casement Park.
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
The Antrim management could find themselves lumbered with an important decision prior to their team lining up against Galway in the All Ireland Hurling Qualifiers at Casement Park, Belfast on Saturday (3.30).
BBC News (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
A County Antrim man who bit off part of another's man's lip in Belfast city centre has been jailed for two years.
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 14/06/2008
There's a new look but a familiar flavour to the Antrim side that will bid to make it seven Ulster title wins on the trot tomorrow when they face Down in the Casement Park, Belfast decider (3.45pm).
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
Antrim will be in seventh heaven if they can land the Ulster senior hurling championship title when they meet Down at Casement park, Belfast on Sunday.
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
THE Antrim management team of Dominic McKinley and Terence McNaughton have taken a bold step in a bid to see their side retain the Ulster senior hurling championship title when they meet Down on Sunday at Casement Park, Belfast.
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
Gorse fires on Black Mountain in west Belfast and outside Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, were today both believed to have been started deliberately.
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
After a Ferris wheel ride high above city center we decided to take a 112 hour Belfast city tour on a doubledecker bus. After an afternoon of doing laundry and drinking hot chocolate we decide to drive out of Belfast to see Lough Neagh the largest lake in Ireland. We then drove down the coast back into Belfast.
