Newry News and Irish Fun
John McCullagh 
Of a Friday and Saturday night you wouldn’t want to leave the ‘Pass. They were here in droves! Women from Ballyargan, Glenn, Tyrone’s Ditches, Tannyokey and Drumbanagher – ALL in the ‘Pass for their groceries – in ponys and traps or walking or on bicycles. Ah, a sight for sore eyes.
Eventually in the second half of the nineteenth century the ill-fated Goraghwood to
Jack McCulla walked slowly down
There were many local names still familiar today in the lists compiled by Father Ryan of the householders in the townlands in his parish during the Great Hunger.
One night I was standing at the corner when Jim Pat McSherry came down the street, whistling.
Also from the newspapers of 1865 we read of the generosity and charity of Mr Dempster who owned a large Mill in the centre of the town (the long building on
In view of recent ‘political and security developments’ we sent our roving reporter to the Ardmore Fortress on the Downshire Road, in search of an interview with a real, live, local PSNI man (or woman).
This is an anonymous letter to the Manager of the Newry and Warrenpoint Railway Company, published in the Newry Telegraph, 1st August 1864.
In your editor’s youth, there was only one soccer team always in contention for every trophy. That, of course was Rockview Rangers, which played its home games on the ‘Ropewalk’ behind High Street.