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McWilliams was born in the Cregagh area of Belfast and moved to Ballymena at the age of three. [1] He began playing guitar and writing songs in his early teens. After leaving Ballymena Technical College in 1963, he started an apprenticeship at the Shorts missile factory in Antrim, and also started a local dance band, the Coral Showband.
Forsythe was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. In 1958 Forsythe and his family immigrated to Canada. He worked his way through University and graduated with a degree in Political Science from the University of Guelph in Ontario. He completed his formal education in 1974 at the age of 22.
Gaston's first electoral contest was at the 2011 local elections, where he was the running mate to Ballymena Councillor, Roy Gillespie, in the Bannside District. [1] He was later co-opted onto the council in February 2013, for the Ballymena South District, following the resignation of Davy Tweed. [2]
Image credits: Old-time Photos To learn more about the fascinating world of photography from the past, we got in touch with Ed Padmore, founder of Vintage Photo Lab.Ed was kind enough to have a ...
By 1704, the population of Ballymena had reached 800. In 1707, the first Protestant (Church of Ireland) parish church was built. In 1740, the original Ballymena Castle burned down. The Gracehill Moravian settlement was founded in 1765. During the 1798 rebellion, Ballymena was occupied from 7 to 9 June by a force of around 10,000 United Irishmen ...
A kilogram of heroin arrived in the Co Antrim town of Ballymena every month in 1997, police believed in 1998. A “subculture of heroin users” was also present in South Belfast in the late 1990s ...
One quote, "In Ballymena, known as the North's drugs capital, there are between 800-1,000 addicts, and six deaths in the past 12 months have been attributed to heroin abuse." Irish Examiner 'Drug secret lurks in Ulster's Bible belt' The Guardian; Drugscope commenting on a comment of UTV-reported loyalist drug trafficking
Ballymena B+ HB07/08/010: Upload Photo. 39 Cockhill Road, Hannahstown, Ballymena BT42 2JP House Ballymena B+ B1 HB07/10/017: Upload Photo. Shank Bridge, Kildrum, Ballymena Bridge Ballymena B+ HB07/10/011: Upload Photo. 4 Brocklamont Park, Ballymena House Ballymena B+ HB07/15/044: Upload Photo. St. Patrick's Church, 57 Castle St., Ballymena ...