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The Lurgan Mail was founded in 1889 by Lewis Robert Richardson. The Lurgan Mail is a tabloid weekly newspaper based in Lurgan, County Armagh in Northern Ireland.It is published on Wednesday evenings, though each edition always bears the Thursday date [2] and reports not only news in Lurgan, but also in nearby towns such as Waringstown and others in Craigavon Borough area.
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in March 2025 ) and then linked below. 2025
9 July 1996 - Michael McGoldrick (31), a Catholic civilian, found in his cab in a remote lane at Aghagallon, near Lurgan, a day after having picked up a fare in the town. He had been shot five times in the head. Both the UVF and the UDA released statements emphatically denying involvement in McGoldrick's killing.
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10 September: The IRA shot dead a man (David McVeigh) in Lurgan. The IRA claimed he had been a member of their organisation but had become an informer in 1982 after he was arrested in connection with the bombing of Lurgan Golf Club. [157] 11 September: the IRA launched a gun and rocket attack on RUC headquarters on the Strand Road in Derry. [159]
Owen Martin O'Hagan (23 June 1950 – 28 September 2001) [1] was an Irish investigative journalist from Lurgan, Northern Ireland.After leaving the Official Irish Republican Army (Official IRA) and serving time in prison, he began a 20-year journalism career, during which he reported on The Troubles in Northern Ireland before being murdered, allegedly by dissident Ulster Loyalist paramilitaries ...
Three RUC officers were killed in an PIRA land mine attack on their patrol car near Oxford Island, near Lurgan, County Armagh. [96] 11 November Three unarmed IRA members were shot dead by members of an undercover RUC unit. Three more unarmed Republican suspects were killed by the RUC in disputed circumstances before the year ended. [96] 6 December
1 March – SSE plc, Northern Ireland's largest supplier of gas, announces it will cut its prices by 22.8% from April. [49]4 March – Funding for Northern Ireland's only free specialist counselling service for victims of sexual violence is extended for a year as a replacement provider had not been lined up in time for the expiry of the contract with Nexus on 31 March.