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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 ...
Portadown's main local newspaper is the Portadown Times, which is published by Johnston Publishing (NI). Although the newspaper focuses on the Portadown area, it also serves towns and villages across north Armagh. It was founded in 1924 and is issued weekly. [105]
Portadown Times; Protestant Telegraph; S. South Belfast News; Strabane Chronicle; Strabane Weekly News and Tyrone & Donegal Reporter; Sunday Journal; Sunday Life ...
The Times and The Sunday Times have a paywall requiring payment on a per-day or per-month basis by non-subscribers. The Financial Times business daily also has limited access for non-subscribers. The Independent became available online only upon its last printed edition on 26 March 2016. [ 2 ]
Johnston Publishing (NI) is a large newspaper group in Northern Ireland consisting of Mortons Newspapers and the News Letter, and is a holding company of JPIMedia.The company was formed following Johnston Press's purchase of Century Newspapers (publishers of the daily newspaper, the News Letter) from Trinity Mirror, and Scottish Radio Holdings' 45 weekly newspapers (Score Press) following ...
The Belfast Telegraph is the main evening newspaper in Northern Ireland. In January 2005 Daily Ireland , which was somewhat supportive of Sinn Féin was launched. It contended (in line with its politics) to be an all-Ireland newspaper; however, its sales were far stronger in Northern Ireland and Dublin than the rest of the island, and it closed ...
Brodie spent his working life in Northern Ireland, after being evacuated to Portadown, County Armagh at the onset of World War II. [2] He began his career at the Portadown Times before moving to the Belfast Telegraph in 1943, where, in 1950, he set up the newspaper's first sports department, with himself as editor. [1]
10 October 1980: An off-duty UDR soldier, James Hewitt (48), was killed by an IRA booby-trap bomb attached to his car on Tandragee Road, Portadown. He was a member of the Ulster Unionist Party. [40] 1981. 26 January 1981: A car bomb exploded in Portadown town centre, injuring three UDR soldiers and seven civilians, and damaging 16 shops. 1983