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Ballymena is described by some observers as being at the heart of Northern Ireland's equivalent of the Bible Belt. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] It has a Protestant majority. In the early 1990s the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)-dominated town council banned a performance by the ELO Part II in the township, saying they would attract "the four Ds Drink, Drugs ...
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 .
Ballymoney is located on the main road between Coleraine and Ballymena, with good road and rail connections to the main cities in Northern Ireland, Belfast and Derry. The Ballymoney area has the highest life expectancy of any area in Northern Ireland, with the average male life expectancy at birth being 79.9 years and 83.8 years for females in ...
Kells is a village near Ballymena in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The village of Connor lies close by, and the two are often spoken of collectively. Kells and Connor had a population of 2,053 people (808 households) in the 2011 Census. [1] The villages are in the civil parish of Connor. [2]
A UDA sign on the front of 2-storey flats in Ballykeel 1. The Ballykeel estate is divided into two separate estates, with the estate on the Western side known as "Ballykeel 1", built in 1962 to relieve overcrowding in Ballymena, and also to facilitate people coming into the town from the country to work in the factories in Ballymena.
Google also has updated its maps. Apple did not reply to a request for comment on whether it would honor the change and had not swapped in the new name by 5 p.m. Monday.
The site was given to the Northern Ireland Executive in 2012 [7] and housing refurbishment was carried out. [8] The site was the home of the Royal Irish Regiment Museum until it closed. [ 9 ] Plans for a road link to the east of the site appeared in the planning submissions to Mid and East Antrim Council in November 2017.
Clogh, also spelt as Clough (from Irish An Chloch 'the stone' ⓘ), is a small village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, 9 miles from Ballymena. It is situated within the Glenravel ward of the Braid electoral area of Mid and East Antrim District Council. It had a population of 220 people (90 households) in the 2011 Census.