Another Newpoint Triumph!
When, in his assessment of Newpoint’s modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s Scottish play, adjudicator Scott Marshall opened with a brief comparative reference to the century’s great dictators, we in the audience hoped he had a comprehension of the masterstroke executed by Newpoint’s Director Sean Treanor in this production.
Not so. After that initial remark, Mr Marshall simply chose to ignore all the modern relevance!
Beauty Queen of Leenane
Ballymoney Literary and Debating Society gave us The Beauty Queen of Leenane on stage in the Town Hall last evening.
Edgars of Newry (ropemakers)
Records of the Edgar family in Newry start with two advertisements in the Belfast Newsletter the first August 1765 when Robert Edgar placed an advertisement for his services as a Physician …
He has it all!
Dear Agnes,
I am single, still in my mid-20s, dashingly handsome – though I say so myself – and I’m a highly successful professional man.
Windmill Road 40 years ago
On the left of our photograph is Yvonne Byrne of
Sneezing etiquette
Dear Agnes,
You are a lady who always knows the correct etiquette in any circumstances.
In the trenches
Now for the anecdotes about Addy McLoughlin …..
Some ninety years ago our subject Addy McLaughlin of Newry met another young Newry lad in the terrible trenches of
Addy McLoughlin
The distinguished man with the abundant facial fungus pictured below is about to feature in a number of anecdotes on site here, so I’d better introduce him.
Dick’s Emigrants
‘There was much talk around my table in Dick’s back in the late 1960s, of jobs – or rather, of the lack of them ….
Tent-sized knickers
Dear Agnes
Why is it that as a woman’s age increases chronologically, her girth swells geometrically and her knickers size exponentially?
Country People
O country people, you of the hill farms,
Huddled so in darkness I cannot tell
Whether the light across the glen is a star ..
Gallaghers remembered
In response to our tribute to the late Michael Gallagher, we have been inundated with people’s recollections of the shop in North Street. Our regular contributor Patrick J White, formerly of O’Neill Avenue sent us a few photos which we are happy to reproduce here.
Michael Gallagher RIP
It is with great regret that we announce the death today of Michael Gallagher (pictured) of