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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 .
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 ...
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 ...
The Portadown – Dungannon section of the Portadown, Dungannon and Omagh Junction Railway (PD&O) opened in 1858. [10] Its nearest station to Moy was optimistically called Trew and Moy, although it was at Trew Mount over 2 miles (3 kilometres) north of Moy. In 1876 the PD&O became part of the new Great Northern Railway. [11]
Newton Emerson (born 1969) is a political commentator from Portadown in Northern Ireland, and now lives in Belfast. He described himself as a 'liberal unionist' in 2001. [1] He contributes to both the Sunday Times, and The Irish News as well as The Irish Times. [2]
[2] [3] After walking along Market Street from the dance hall, they came to the intersection of Market and Thomas Streets in Portadown, where they were attacked. [2] [3] Hamill and his friend, Gregory Girvan, were attacked by the crowd while their attackers shouted abuse at them and Robert Hamill was knocked unconscious almost immediately. [3]
10 October 1980: An off-duty UDR soldier, James Hewitt (48), was killed by an IRA booby-trap bomb attached to his car on Tandragee Road, Portadown. He was a member of the Ulster Unionist Party. [40] 1981. 26 January 1981: A car bomb exploded in Portadown town centre, injuring three UDR soldiers and seven civilians, and damaging 16 shops. 1983
English: Colonel Saunderson's Statue, Market Street, Portadown. This granite pedestal and bronze standing figure, was erected in 1910 to the memory of Colonel the Right Honourable Edward James Saunderson, a Cavan man, who was elected MP for the North Armagh constituency 1885-1906 and was also a leader of the Irish Unionist Party 1886-1906.