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The Portadown News was a satirical web-based newspaper dealing with Northern Irish politics and culture. It was written (initially anonymously) by journalist and political commentator Newton Emerson , who had been raised in Portadown in County Armagh .
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In the 19th and 20th centuries Portadown was also a major centre for the production of textiles (mainly linen). Portadown is the site of the long-running Drumcree dispute, over yearly marches by the Protestant Orange Order through the Catholic part of the town, which often sparked violence and protests. In the 1990s, the dispute escalated and ...
Founded in the 1920s, the Portadown Times was a poor second to the longer-established Portadown News, and - until it was taken over in the 1950s by James Morton, remained that way. Under Morton's expertise, it passed the News circulation and he took over the News in the early 1970s and ran both as a bi-weekly operation until he closed the ...
Storm Darragh forces the postponement of Saturday's Irish Premiership games between Dungannon and Linfield, Cliftonville and Carrick Rangers, Glentoran and Ballymena United, Glenavon and Crusaders ...
Newton Emerson (born 1969) is a political commentator from Portadown in Northern Ireland, and now lives in Belfast.He described himself as a 'liberal unionist' in 2001. [1] He contributes to both the Sunday Times, and The Irish News as well as The Irish Times.
Portadown forms part of the Upper Bann constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament. It was created for the 1985 local elections , mainly replacing Craigavon Area B which had existed since 1973, where it originally contained seven wards (Annagh, Ballybay, Ballyoran, Brownstown, Corcrain, Tavanagh and The Birches).
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