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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. Its format and style were similar to The Onion.
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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 ...
A council policy over underwater swimming changed after a man's death at a leisure centre pool in Armagh, a court heard on Monday. Christopher Rogers, who was 20, died during a swim session at the ...
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 ...
Portadown massacre; Portadown News; Portadown Times; Portadown Town Hall; S. Seagoe parish; T. The Troubles in Portadown This page was last edited on 2 June 2023, at ...
Violence erupted across Northern Ireland that evening as news from Portadown reached nationalist areas. [2] Unionist politicians accused the IRA of starting the riots. [ 28 ] Irish republican sources admitted that the IRA was openly involved in the unrest, [ 29 ] unlike in 1996, when it had restrained itself from retaliation. [ 30 ]
Portadown has (or had) a large selection of academic institutions, past and present. Today, schools in Portadown operate under the Dickson Plan, a transfer system in north Armagh that allows pupils at age 11 the option of taking the 11-plus exam to enter grammar schools. Pupils in comprehensive junior high schools are sorted into grammar and ...