Coleraine

Leonard to join SF assembly team

BBC News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Coleraine councillor Billy Leonard is selected by Sinn Fein colleagues to become an assembly member in East Londonderry.

Ex RUC man becomes Sinn Fein MLA

BBC News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Coleraine councillor Billy Leonard is selected by Sinn Fein to become an assembly member in East Londonderry.

All change

BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

It looks like we are soon going to get a couple of new MLAs. The SDLP's Carmel Hanna (who is currently sitting in a Health Committee meeting) is planning to retire. A selection meeting has been arranged for next month in South Belfast with Belfast councillor Bernie Kelly and former SDLP spin doctor and well known blogger Conall McDevitt thought to be in the running. In East Londonderry, as was confirmed...

Loyalist killer to fight conviction

SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009

News Letter 24 October 2009 LOYALIST killer Torrens Knight is to appeal against his conviction for assaulting two sisters in a bar room attack. The terrorist assassin faces being returned to jail to resume 12 life sentences for murders carried out during the Troubles after he was found guilty in Coleraine Magistrates Court on Thursday of beating up the women. Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun Woodward...

• NI killer to appeal assault conviction - ireland.com

Greysteel killer guilty of attack

SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009

BBC 22 Oct 09 One of the men convicted of the 1993 Greysteel massacre has been convicted of assault and disorderly behaviour. Torrens Knight will be sentenced next month over the attack on two sisters at a bar in Coleraine on 30 May 2008. Notorious loyalist UFF 'Trick or Treat' killer Torrens Knight pictured at his first court appearance days after the infamous massacre at the Rising Sun Bar in Greysteel...

Text of Ulster Unionist leader's speech to Conservative conference

Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009

Ladies and Gentlemen, Politics is about belief: Belief in yourself; in your policies; and in the beliefs and motives of others. The simple truth of the forthcoming General Election is that David Cameron probably doesn’t need a single Ulster Unionist vote or seat to get him over the threshold of Number 10. He is on his way to victory because an increasing number of people across the United Kingdom...

McDaid accused’s bail revoked over DNA evidence

SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009

Belfast Telegraph Wednesday, 7 October 2009 DNA matching a former doorman accused of the mob murder of Catholic community worker Kevin McDaid was found on a pick-axe handle recovered by police, the High Court has heard . Prosecutors disclosed the forensic link as they successfully appealed a decision to grant bail to John Thompson, an alleged ringleader in the attack. Thompson (30) is among 11 suspects...

Town stone throwers attack police

BBC News (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009

One man is arrested after police are attacked by youths throwing stones in Coleraine, County Londonderry.

McDaid suspect released on bail

SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009

BBC 24 Sept 09 One of the men charged with the murder of Kevin McDaid in Coleraine has been released on bail but must not stay in the town. A High Court judge said Christopher McDowell, 33, of Glebe Avenue, must live at an address in Londonderry under curfew. Catholic community worker and father-of-four Kevin McDaid was killed near his home by a loyalist mob in May. Eleven people have been charged...

Cats' tale which leads to Germany

Cryptozoology Online: Daily News (Free subscription) | 31/08/2009

Saturday, 29 August 2009 14:25 UK The phrase Auf Wiedersehen Pet has taken on a new meaning after two cats were found to have travelled from Germany to Northern Ireland. The animals were found straying in Coleraine, County Londonderry, five weeks ago. They were brought to a vet in Limavady and so far attempts to contact their owners have been unsuccessful. But the cats, lent the names Stu and Chris...

UDA blamed for savage baseball bat attack in Coleraine

SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 19/08/2009

Coleraine Times 19 August 2009 A Coleraine man was the victim of mistaken identity when he was brutally beaten by a masked gang. Ian Hyndman suffered a broken leg and puncture wounds after he was attacked by eight men brandishing baseball bats with nails who forced their way into a house about 10pm last Tuesday. It is understood Mr Hyndman, who is in his 30s, was visiting a friend in Cuilrath Street...

UDA blamed for savage baseball bat assault

SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 13/08/2009

By Lesley-Anne Henry Belfast Telegraph Thursday, 13 August 2009 A man in his 30s is recovering in hospital after being brutally beaten by a masked gang. Ian Hyndman suffered a broken leg and puncture wounds after he was attacked by eight men brandishing baseball bats fortified with nails who forced their way into a house about 10pm on Tuesday. It is understood the man was visiting a friend in Cuilrath...

Funeral of NI swine flu soldier

BBC News (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009

The funeral has taken place in Coleraine, County Londonderry, of a soldier who died last week from swine flu.

Loyalist chief appears at west Belfast festival

SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009

By Brian Rowan Belfast Telegraph Thursday, 6 August 2009 Terrorist leader Jackie McDonald has told an audience in west Belfast that the murder of Coleraine community worker Kevin McDaid “did nothing for loyalism”. The UDA ‘brigadier’, speaking at a festival event, said he had “every sympathy” for the McDaid family. McDonald was part of the panel in an event billed...

Swine Flu claims 31st UK Victim

Swine Flu Info (Free subscription) | 04/08/2009

A soldier from Coleraine, County Londonderry, has died after contracting swine flu. 30-year-old Lee Porter, a bombardier in the Royal Artillery, died in a Surrey hospital last Friday, two weeks after falling sick. It is understood he had underlying health problems. In a statement, the Ministry of Defence said: "Our thoughts go out to his family, who were at his bedside." He is the 28th person...