Stories By Micheal McKenna
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Portadown
/ 3 years ago‘A true angel has returned home from this cruel world’: Tributes at passing of Portadown’s Phyllis Abraham
Tributes have been paid following the sudden and sad passing of Portadown woman Phyllis Abraham. The hard-working chairperson of the Edgarstown’...
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News
/ 3 years agoPolice hail child’s bravery as foster father begins four years behind bars for sex abuse
Police have welcomed the jail sentence handed down to a man who sexually abused his foster daughter. And they have commended...
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Lurgan
/ 3 years agoProperty boost for Lurgan with two applications for apartments proposed
A number of new apartment blocks are being planned for Lurgan. Two separate applications have been submitted for consideration to Armagh...
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Portadown
/ 3 years agoNew mixed-use retail development planned on Bleary Road
A new mixed-use retail development is being planned on the Bleary Road, Portadown. Proposals have been drawn up for three new...
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Markethill
/ 3 years agoRural Co Armagh primary school earmarked for closure in cost-saving exercise
A rural County Armagh primary school has been earmarked for closure, Armagh I can reveal. Kingsmills Primary is expected to be...
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Craigavon
/ 3 years agoCraigavon student’s delight after missing painting found and returned to family
A County Armagh student’s painting – which went missing after an exhibition in Belfast – has been located. As Armagh I...
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Craigavon
/ 3 years agoCraigavon student ‘absolutely devastated’ as painting goes missing from exhibition
A County Armagh student has been left devastated after one of her paintings – which took her three months of painstaking...
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Portadown
/ 3 years agoTender ‘goes live’ to find team to deliver new state-of-the-art Portadown College
Education bosses have gone out to tender to put in place the team which will oversee the delivery of a new...
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Markethill
/ 3 years agoDriver who caused Markethill man catastrophic ‘life-changing’ injuries spared jail
A Belfast man who inflicted life-changing injuries on a Co Armagh driver has been spared prison. Cathal Hughes, of Oakleigh Park...
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Markethill
/ 3 years agoMum-of-four’s despair with roads ‘literally crumbling away’ in Co Armagh housing estate
A Co Armagh mother has made a desperate plea for action as she says roads in and around her housing development...
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Portadown
/ 3 years agoTrailer load of lorry tyres dumped in The Birches for fourth time in space of a year
A trailer-load of lorry tyres, dumped in a rural part of Portadown, were pulled from a ditch in what is the...
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Portadown
/ 3 years agoThree people taken to hospital following four-vehicle collision on Markethill Road in Portadown
Three people were taken to hospital following a four-vehicle collision outside Portadown this afternoon (Sunday). Emergency services rushed to the scene...