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Graham Pointer's Blog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Next September, I plan to be in Armagh for an astronomy conference- not that I ever need much of an excuse to go to Northern Ireland. Now, these days we are encouraged to go green, and to use the train for short ( i.e. domestic travel) rather than flying. And it has to be said that the Channel Tunnel has improved rail links to the rest of Europe- apparently, by train, the nearest capital city to London...
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SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Irish News 30/10/09 1997: The Parades Commission was established following an RUC decision to allow the Orange Order to march down the predominantly nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown, Co Armagh 1999: The commission carried out a four-month review following complaints from nationalists and unionists 2000: Garvaghy Road resident Evelyn White took a legal challenge on the grounds the Parades Commission...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
PHARMACEUTICALS FIRM Warner Chilcott, formerly Galen, was established in Portadown, Co Armagh, in 1968. It was founded as a pharmaceutical product marketing business by former Glaxo executive Sir Allen McClay, who retired from the group in October 2001.
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ireland.com (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
A 17-year-old youth was shot in a leg after being bundled into a van in a paramilitary-style attack in Co Armagh last night.
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SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
Irish News 22 Sept 09 FORMER chief constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan claimed that Robert Hamill was “sitting up in bed talking to his friends and family” when in reality the sectarian murder victim never regained consciousness, an inquiry into his death was told yesterday . The 25-year-old Catholic died in hospital of brain damage 12 days after being kicked unconscious by a loyalist mob in...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/09/2009
Rioting flared last night in north Armagh, Northern Ireland, just hours after a three man republican dissident gang from the area were jailed for 15 years over a plot to kill police officers. A lorry and van were hijacked during disturbances in Lurgan which at one staged caused disruption to the Belfast-Dublin rail line. Trouble erupted on the republican Kilwilkie Estate where the van was hijacked...
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SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 25/08/2009
News Letter 25 August 2009 THE ex-wife of a man once suspected of Robert Hamill's murder has agreed to give evidence at the inquiry into the killing. Tracey Clarke, who retracted a witness statement naming her former partner Allister Hanvey among the attackers, faces the threat of jail for non-attendance at the tribunal. But judges at the High Court agreed to adjourn an application for contempt after...
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ireland.com (Free subscription) | 19/08/2009
A 55-year-old man has died in motorcycle crash near Portadown, police said today.
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Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 15/07/2009
[This is taken from A Note from the Next Door Neighbours , the monthly e-bulletin of Andy Pollak, Director of the Centre for Cross Border Studies in Armagh and Dublin] This is the Orange marching season. It is a traditionally a time of heightened inter-community tensions in Northern Ireland, when tens of thousands of Catholics and middle-class Protestants flee the province in order to avoid the ‘Twelfth'...
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ireland.com (Free subscription) | 05/07/2009
The annual Drumcee Orange parade in Portadown, Co Armagh has passed without incident today.
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The Reverend Garibaldi McFlurry (Free subscription) | 05/07/2009
The name of a parish church sitting on a hill outside Portadown has become famous across the world, and became one of the landmarks of the post-ceasefire Northern Ireland. Drumcree is famous because the Portadown District of the Orange Order attends Morning Prayer on the first Sunday in July, and that was as far as they were allowed for some years, being blocked and banned from their traditional route...
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SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 05/07/2009
DAN KEENAN Irish Times Saturday, July 4, 2009 THE ANNUAL Drumcree parade has again been prohibited from the nationalist Garvaghy Road area of Portadown, Co Armagh tomorrow. The decision maintains the policy of refusing permission for the Portadown lodge of the Orange Order to return to its lodge through the nationalist area in the absence of a locally agreed accommodation. The Parades Commission, which...
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SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
By Simon Doyle Irish News 03/07/2009 A woman whose son was denied a place in a popular Irish-language secondary school has spoken of her frustration and anger that there is no suitable alternative. Pupils leaving Irish-medium primary schools in both Lurgan and Portadown, Co Armagh, missed out on places in An Sruth Gaeilge at St Catherine’s College in Armagh city. There are only 25 places in the...
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SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 16/01/2009
Irish News 14/01/2009 THE family of a Catholic man murdered by a sectarian mob appealed yesterday for a public inquiry to uncover the truth after a litany of allegations were levelled against police over the case. Robert Hamill (25), was attacked in Portadown Co Armagh in 1997, during a night out with friends but police at the scene were accused of failing to protect him and frustrating the subsequent...
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SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 13/01/2009
BBC The inquiry into the murder of Portadown man Robert Hamill began on Tuesday. Mr Hamill, a Catholic, died after being attacked by a loyalist mob in the County Armagh town on 11 April 1997. It has been claimed that four RUC police officers watched as the attack on the 25-year-old took place and failed to intervene. The inquiry will investigate those allegations and whether the police were in any...
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