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The group is partly owned, and chaired, by businessman and retired Ulster Unionist politician John Taylor, Baron Kilclooney.. Alpha Newspaper Group previously owned two newspapers in County Offaly (Tullamore and Midland Tribune) in the Republic of Ireland.
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 ...
The Northern Irish Troubles resulted in 11 deaths in or near the mainly Protestant County Antrim town of Ballymena. Eight people were killed by various loyalist groups, and three by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Two of the IRA victims were members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary; the other victim was a civilian.
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 ...
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]
Crawford was elected to Mid and East Antrim Borough Council in the 2023 local elections, representing the Ballymena District. [2]In July 2024, he was co-opted to the Northern Ireland Assembly as a member for North Antrim, following the election of Robin Swann, as MP for South Antrim.
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 is a former local government district with borough status in Northern Ireland. It was one of twenty-six districts created on 1 October 1973 and covered the town of Ballymena and the surrounding area which includes small towns including Broughshane , Cullybackey , Galgorm, Ahoghill and Portglenone .