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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.
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 ...
Dean Forbes was interviewed under caution, without his solicitor present, on 6 May 1997. He admitted being in Portadown town center with Stacey Bridgett on the night Robert Hamill was attacked, and described watching a fight between a large group of people (where Stacey suffered a suspected broken nose) but denied taking part in it himself. [7]
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 ...
Tandragee, County Armagh, where Andrew Robb and David McIlwaine had gone on Friday night 18 February 2000. At 1:30 a.m. on Saturday 19 February 2000, Protestant acquaintances, Andrew Robb, a 19-year-old unmarried father, and David McIlwaine (known to his friends as "Mackers"), an 18-year-old graphic design student at Lurgan Tech, both of Portadown, had left "The Spot" nightclub in Tandragee ...
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.
William James Fulton (born 25 November 1968 [1]), known as Jim Fulton, is a Northern Irish loyalist.He was a volunteer in the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF), the paramilitary organisation founded in 1996 by Billy Wright and later commanded by his brother Mark "Swinger" Fulton until the latter's death in 2002.