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Monday 25 May, 2020
Ulster boss Dan McFarland said the centre is ‘really disappointed’ after missing out.
The body of Michael Kerr was discovered inside his home in Bangor on Tuesday.
The ‘Best Kept’ awards pit the winners of Ireland’s TidyTowns against their counterparts across the border.
The PSNI received a report at around 5.10am this morning of a bus on fire at a bus and rail station in Bangor.
Ballyholme’s Liam Glynn is seeking to secure a place at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Footage of the assault was shared widely on social media, and police urged people not to discuss the case online.
A 16-year-old female and 17-year-old male have been arrested.
Co. Down native Rhys McClenaghan is gunning for medals in Australia this weekend.
The organisers have cancelled the event two days after it began.
Horner was shot dead in front of his three-year-old son last weekend.
Horner was murdered in the car park of a supermarket on the afternoon of 28 May.
He was shot at Sainsbury’s car park in Bangor yesterday afternoon.
A murder investigation has been launched.
Lisa Dorrian from Bangor disappeared after a party in 2005.
Two men aged 19 have been arrested on suspicion of murder.
Northern Ireland’s police service thanked the public for their help in looking for the missing woman.
Children were approached in Bangor over the past two months.
The children range in age from 7 to 9.
In a second incident, the men said they were from an electricity company and tried to distract an elderly couple while they searched their home.
The incident happened in Bangor on Saturday night.
63-year-old Ronald Reid’s body was found with unexplained injuries, according to investigators.
The men forced the homeowner into a room before making off with a sum of money.
A 57-year-old man was found with multiple stab wounds at a flat.
James Fenton was found dead 10 weeks after he went missing, 40 metres from where he had last been seen.
Davidson was found dead at his home in Bangor last weekend.
A man and a woman have been arrested as part of the investigation into the death of Davidson, who was found by a relative at his home yesterday.
Two men have been arrested and bailed in relation to the inquiry.
Last night the offices and homes of Alliance Party members were attacked and a number of police officers injured in protests.
They must be sprinkling pixie dust in the water.
PSNI detectives say that a man armed with a knife entered a shop on Bangor Road in Holywood and demanded money from staff.
A 31-year-old woman has been hospitalised after being stabbed in Bangor yesterday evening.
A DUP councillor told the popstar to put her clothes back on when he spotted her attire during the shoot on his land.
The victims, aged 17 and 20, were attacked in the Silverstream Avenue area at around 8.30 pm last night.
New laws bar anyone under 16 from staying out late – but the move has come under fire from children’s groups.
The video for We Found Love, some of it shot in a Co Down field, has been released and includes the scene which one DUP councillor found “inappropriate”.
Alderman Alan Graham had given the singer permission to use his land for a video shoot, changed his mind when he saw her attire.
A man is being questioned by police following a double shooting in Bangor yesterday, which resulted in the death of one man.
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The shooting occurred in the town of Bangor today around lunchtime. It’s believed there may be a drugs link to the incident.
A WOMAN IN HER 50′S has sustained serious head injuries in an assault in Bangor, Co Down, UTV reports. The attack took place in the woman’s home at Ashbury Crescent shortly after midnight last night. The PSNI says the woman may have a fractured skull, and is appealing for anyone with any information regarding the incident to contact them.
WHILE BOOKSHOPS AROUND the country have had to shut their doors in recent months as a result of the Covid-19 restrictions, many operators have turned their focus to online sales.
A huge demand for reading materials from stuck-at-home bookworms and stressed parents has given shops a lifeline.
Some independent bookstores in Ireland have been online for years, but others have had to develop websites in recent months as they closed up their stores.
TheJournal.ie spoke to some bookshop owners about how they have been managing and all noted that they were blown away by the demand for online orders during the shutdown.
So, today we want to know: Have you been reading more books that usual lately?
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