Tyrone Times (Dungannon, Northern Ireland) back issues from June 2007:
Residents call for action on concrete plant.
Jun 05, 2007 ... YOUNG families living in the shadow of a plant which dries sand before blending it with cement, have slammed the authorities for ignoring their pleas for help. Residents of the Inishmore Park and Annagher areas of Coalisland told the Tyrone Times that following the erection of ...
Eileen takes control on the field and in the classroom!
Jun 05, 2007 ... AT the end of a busy day taking charge of a classroom full of children, Dungannon woman Eileen Jones likes to switch off and immerse herself in the sport she loves. But, with whistle and rule book in hand, taking to the field as referee might not seem that far removed from her ...
Armed robbers pull victim from bed at knife-point.
Jun 05, 2007 ... A LOCAL politician has demanded that a so-called "knife culture" be addressed, following two armed robberies in Coalisland over the weekend. Robbers armed with a knife pulled a man out of bed during a frightening incident in the early hours of yesterday, Monday. ...
'World leader' energy system launched in Benburb village.
Jun 05, 2007 ... THE work of two scientists - which was showcased in Benburb - has the potential to be a 'world leader' in the reuse of waste materials. That is according to local Ulster Unionist politician Tom Elliott, who was speaking following the launch of a formula which turns waste sludge ...
Tourist boom town.
Jun 05, 2007 ... DUNGANNON'S tourism potential looks set for a welcome boost, with news that the town's first new hotel (pictured) in many years could open within weeks. The Tyrone Times understands that the ambitious project, at the former First Trust Bank building at the top of the town's ...
Sex victims suffering in silence.
Jun 05, 2007 ... ALMOST half of victims of some form of sexual abuse or rape had never spoken to anyone else about their experience before contacting The Nexus Institute - which has now introduced a counselling service to the Dungannon area. The shocking figure was revealed by Jacqui Swan, a ...
Women 'shaken' after incident.
Jun 05, 2007 ... PUBLICISED details of an unsolicited approach made by two men towards a couple of teenage girls near Ballygawley just over a week ago have led to a second similar incident being reported, this time from the Clontyclay area. On the evening of Wednesday 23 May, two middle-aged ...
Man arrested in connection with indecent exposure reports.
Jun 05, 2007 ... DUNGANNON Police have arrested a man in connection with an alleged indecent exposure incident at Donaghmore Primary School. The 33 year old was arrested last Wednesday. He was interviewed and bailed. There have been a number of similar incidents ...
Youthful new hand at the helm.
Jun 05, 2007 ... SINN Fein's Barry Monteith has been elected the new Mayor of Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council. The 31 year old Dungannon Town Councillor was nominated at the Council's Annual General Meeting, last night, Monday, and has the honour of being the youngest ever holder of ...
Jax' the lad.
Jun 05, 2007 ... From galloping freely in the bogs of Carrickmore to achieving immortality in the shape of a greyhound derby triumph; that's stuff of which dreams are made. But it's something that Justin and Conor McAleer hope will become a glorious reality in the next few weeks, writes Kevin Hughes. ...
Brian holds his nerve to book replay.
Jun 05, 2007 ... LEAGUE form suggested there would be very little between these teams and at Pearse Park, Galbally on Sunday night they couldn't be separated. Both sides had enjoyed periods on top of this entertaining tie but when Gortin took a two point lead going into three minutes of time ...
Brocagh dig deep for win.
Jun 05, 2007 ... Brocagh had to dig deep at Killeeshil on Friday night; but they pulled off an against-the-odds win over Aghaloo to secure a place in the intermediate championship quarter-finals, writes Kevin Hughes Jnr. Classy at times, the Emmets were cruising to victory four points ahead with ...
Hughes' Views.
Jun 05, 2007 ... Let's get it right. Kildress-Moy was not the dirtiest match ever played. Nobody said it was. Yet you'd be forgiven for thinking we had made such a claim, if you were to judge by the reaction of a small minority of people who have foolishly taken umbrage at our match report. One ...
Cummings gets gold.
Jun 05, 2007 ... TWO top drawer performances in the Round Robin Tournament at the National Boxing Stadium Dublin, earned Clonoe's 66kg boxer Conrad Cummings (pictured) the Gold Medal. Boxers from Germany, Lithuania, and Sweden provided stiff opposition for the Irish Boxing team. On Friday night ...
Highly trained staff encourage more use of unit.
Jun 12, 2007 ... THE Minor Injuries Unit (MIU) at South Tyrone Hospital is operated by one doctor, four specialist Emergency Practitioner Nurses (ENPs), general nursing staff and healthcare assistants. According to management at the unit, more and more patients are travelling there for "routine" ...
Nurses appeal to public to avail of Minor Injuries Unit.
Jun 12, 2007 ... MEDICAL staff at the Minor Injuries Unit (MIU) in Dungannon - which is currently being underused despite offering a wide range of facilities - are appealing to the local community to avail of the highly professional and efficient service available to them on their doorstep. ...
Minor Injuries Dungannon factfile.
Jun 12, 2007 ... Where is the Minor Injuries Unit (MIU)? The MIU is based in the former Accident and Emergency department at South Tyrone Hospital. When will the MIU be open? The MIU is open every day of the year from 9am to 9pm. Who is the service for? ...
Sad passing of former Clogher Valley councillor.
Jun 12, 2007 ... A FORMER long-standing DUP councillor, who represented the Clogher Valley for nearly 30 years, will be fondly missed, according to his party colleague. For many years, Lord Maurice Morrow served on Dungannon council along with his fellow party member, Johnston McIlwrath, who ...
'Boy racers' raking through town.
Jun 12, 2007 ... SO-CALLED 'boy racers' are using Dungannon town centre as a high-speed race circuit. According to local assembly member Maurice Morrow, speeding youths who carry out 'handbrake turns' and other dangerous manouevres, are putting lives at risk. The Dungannon Town DUP ...
PSNI chasing cars.
Jun 12, 2007 ... IMMEDIATE disqualification and a possible term of imprisonment: those are the options open to any Magistrate on the successful prosecution of a reckless or dangerous driver. And local police have stressed they'll bring all the force to bear that they can muster in order to ...
Ear bite victim released from hospital.
Jun 12, 2007 ... AN 18 year old man's had part of his ear bitten off after an assault in Coalisland. The attack happened when the victim and a friend were walking along Canal Quay in the early hours of Sunday morning. The pair were approached by a group of youths around half past two, and when ...
Families without water as temperatures soar.
Jun 12, 2007 ... FAMILIES living in the Cappagh area were left without water to drink or wash as temperatures soared over the weekend. According to a local councillor, homes in the Sessiadonaghy, Corlea, Cranlome and Altaglushan townlands have been suffering from regular and sustained water ...
Work on traffic problems to start in Milltown.
Jun 12, 2007 ... A LONG awaited Roads Service scheme to improve the junction of Mark Street and Brooke Street in Milltown is to commence by the end of June 2007. Ulster Unionist Assembly member for Fermanagh & South Tyrone, Tom Elliott MLA, has expressed his pleasure at the news. "I ...
East Tyrone College's new buildings officially opened.
Jun 12, 2007 ... EAST Tyrone College celebrated the official opening of its new buildings last week after six years of construction. The development, on the College's Circular Road campus in Dungannon, was officially opened by the Employment and Learning Minister, Sir Reg Empey. Also in ...
Principal takes the lead role.
Jun 12, 2007 ... THERE were over 170 guests present for the official opening of East Tyrone College's new facilities last Wednesday and Principal Jimmy Mullan greeted everyone with a firm handshake and a beaming smile. The smile was also there for the press, for every photograph request, for all ...
East Tyrone College officially opens new buildings.
Jun 12, 2007 ... EAST Tyrone College celebrated the official opening of its new buildings last week after six years of construction. The development, on the College's Circular Road campus in Dungannon, was officially opened by the Employment and Learning Minister, Sir Reg Empey. Also in ...
Pat on the back.
Jun 12, 2007 ... After a one year break, local snooker star Patrick Wallace is back on the main professional tour - and he's going in with a refreshing new outlook, writes Kevin Hughes! The Dungannon cueman believes he'll be much more relaxed now that he's no longer depending on the sport for ...
Photographic celebration, a treasure for local gaels.
Jun 12, 2007 ... As the blurb from the authors succinctly puts it, 'Sam Maguire and the historic places of old Tyrone' is quite simply a story about Tyrone in the way it was never told before. The new book, by Pomeroy husband and wife team Kathleen Burns and Frank Quinn, was launched in the An ...
McEniff tips Donegal win.
Jun 12, 2007 ... The name of Brian McEniff is never far away when Donegal football is discussed and it's no wonder when you consider the Bundoran hotelier has been associated with all five of his county's Anglo-Celt triumphs. McEniff delights in pointing out that his mother hails from ...
Young entrepreneur heads 'across the pond'.
Jun 12, 2007 ... A PUPIL at the Integrated College Dungannon has scooped the prize of a week's holiday in Canada after winning a competition run by a prestigous young entrepreneur's scheme. David Maye, 15, will travel across the Atlantic in August for being one of the most successful candidates ...
Hughes' Views.
Jun 12, 2007 ... I'm not sure what it is about Ardboe, but it seems that every time I go away they seem to become embroiled in some sort of controversy; last time it was a match against Dromore and on Sunday week there was seemingly a fair old dust-up in their league match with Galbally. As ...
McAliskey case 'politically motivated at highest level'.
Jun 12, 2007 ... THE case against a Coalisland woman, whom German authorities have requested be extradited, has been "politically motivated" at the highest level of the Northern Ireland Office (NIO), her solicitor has claimed. Thirty-five year-old Roisin McAliskey, daughter of former Mid-Ulster ...
All aboard the new Police bus!
Jun 19, 2007 ... MEMBERS of the public got an advance viewing this week of a new mobile police bus which will be introduced to the Dungannon and South Tyrone area towards the end of the summer. Yesterday, Monday, a bus of this type visited Fivemiletown to show the local community what they can ...
Cullenfad Pipe Band captures Scottish glory.
Jun 19, 2007 ... A LOCAL pipe band has returned home celebrating after clinching second place in the Scottish Championship. But members of Cullenfad Pipe Band, based in Castlecaulfield, hope to go one better in tournaments later this summer. Members travelled to Dumbarton recently and ...
Retail project aims to make Dungannon shopper happy capital.
Jun 19, 2007 ... AN EU funded project was kick-started in Armagh this week. It aims to rejuvenate and regenerate the retail centres of Armagh City, Monaghan Town and Dungannon Town as well as facilitate the growth of retail support organisations in each area through joint cross border collaboration. The ...
'I won't back down'.
Jun 19, 2007 ... A BALLYGAWLEY Councillor is calling for a meeting with the Chief Constable of the PSNI in order to review his personal security. Sammy Brush (pictured) says he wants a one-to-one meeting with the Province's top policeman, Sir Hugh Orde, to discuss the issue, after an attack on ...
Have courage to speak out.
Jun 19, 2007 ... A LOCAL priest has made a heartfelt plea to young people who may be considering suicide to share their worries with him, if not with their parents or friends. The call from Fr Seamus Rice, Parish Priest in Coalisland, comes following an alarming number of incidents in which ...
Special honours.
Jun 19, 2007 ... FIVE people with local connections have been given awards as part of the Queen's Birthday Honours List. Patricia Margaret Carville, former Principal of St Patrick's College, Dungannon is awarded an OBE for services to Education, alongside Captain Robert Hugh Lowry, Fivemiletown, ...
Beat 'bobbies' - Dungannon's new policing reality?
Jun 19, 2007 ... NORTHERN Ireland's brave new political era could herald the dawn of an unprecedented approach to policing here - the emergence of a 'bobby on the beat'. Once the stuff of Sunday night TV dramas - where the village Constable patrolled his patch astride a trusty bicycle, and ...
Water, water, everywhere...
Jun 19, 2007 ... DUNGANNON and its neighbouring towns in the South Tyrone Borough managed to escape relatively lightly as torrential rain engulfed parts of the Province on two separate days last week. On Tuesday, and then again on Friday, a deluge of rainfall saturated the previously parched ...
High and dry.
Jun 19, 2007 ... IT'S emerged households in Dungannon look set to lose out on a Departmental payout for flood victims, because damage caused wasn't deemed to be severe enough. The news comes after an announcement last Friday from the Environment Minister and Fermanagh South Tyrone MLA Arlene ...
'Residents are suffering'.
Jun 19, 2007 ... A RESIDENTS' spokesperson has thrown down the gauntlet to police, politicians and other relevant authorities, to spend one night experiencing the plight of Dungannon people who say they are terrorised by so-called 'boy racers'. As reported in last week's Tyrone Times, local ...
Charges withdrawn.
Jun 19, 2007 ... A COOKSTOWN man, charged with making a threat to kill, has had the charge withdrawn. Acquin Heagney, 59, Dunamore Road, was accused of threatening a female on May 28. At East Tyrone ...
End of road for Brian?
Jun 19, 2007 ... AS his Tyrone team-mates coasted impressively through to the Ulster Final on Sunday, Brian McGuigan watched from his bed, the luckless Ardboe ace forced to lie still for almost a week after the latest in a series of operations as top surgeons bid to save the sight in his left eye, writes ...
Tyrone are back!
Jun 19, 2007 ... It was a result that nobody could have predicted as the impressively revitalised Tyrone sent out a stern warning to the rest of the country via a really stunning power-packed display at St.Tiernachs Park, Clones to leave national league champions Donegal holding a badly beaten docket long ...
Rampant reds.
Jun 19, 2007 ... Tyrone minors were rampant ten points winners over Armagh - and they were full value for that margin as they installed themselves firm favourites to win the Ulster title at the expense of Derry or Monaghan, writes Kevin Kelly. A dreadful mistake by Armagh defender Gary McCoey ...
Who are they and why do they do this.
Jun 19, 2007 ... AMERICAN visitors to Coalisland have seen for themselves the ongoing destruction of the Cornmill Centre in the town. More damage was caused in the latest attack at the weeknd. Jim Canning, Chairman of Coalisland and District Development Association, says it is ...
Hughes' Views.
Jun 19, 2007 ... Was Mickey Harte really accusing club players of deliberately inflicting injury on their fellow Tyrone men? I'm not sure. But I will tell you this much, if he did intend to do that, he wouldn't be on his own. I've had plenty of calls fairly recently from people who feel county men are ...
Student gears up for charity cycle.
Jun 19, 2007 ... A KILLEESHIL student will be challenging the lazy student stereotype this October when she undertakes a gruelling charity bike ride across a mountainous region of South Africa. Aideen O'Reilly will cycle 600km in six days over African dirt roads and tribal territories as well as ...
Darts night success for Sammy Jo and supporters.
Jun 19, 2007 ... DONAGHY'S Bar in Dungannon was the venue on Friday night last for the Go Go Sammy Jo Fund darts tournament. The night raised somewhere in the region of [pounds sterling]400. The competition, organised by Martin McDonagh in association with the Dungannon darts league, was held to ...
Gross indecency charges.
Jun 19, 2007 ... A 33 year old Ballygawley man's been bailed on charges of gross indecency with children and indecent exposure. Roland McFarland from Ballynahaye Road appeared at Dungannon Magistrates Court charged with a total five offences. He's accused of one count of committing an ...
Green fingered pupils net a bounty.
Jun 19, 2007 ... ECO-CONSCIOUS pupils at Sperrin View Special School have scooped over [pounds sterling]1,000 for their school by growing an organic range of vegetables and bedding plants. As part of the Greenfingers project, which was launched this year, ten pupils at the SELB-approved school ...
Tackling violence in the home.
Jun 19, 2007 ... THIS year Cookstown and Dungannon Women's Aid celebrates the tenth anniversary of the opening of their refuge for women and children who are fleeing domestic violence. The refuge, which is situated in Cookstown, is purpose built accommodation suitable for housing up to nine ...
When home is where the hurt is.
Jun 19, 2007 ... HAVE you ever been? 1. Told you are useless, ugly or stupid? 2. Slapped, punched, kicked, shoved or head butted? 3. Told that you are a bad mother? 4. Deprived of money? 5. Deprived of affection? 6. Not allowed to leave ...
A survivor's story.
Jun 19, 2007 ... DESPITE suffering from violence at home since her early childhood, it was not until she found herself curled up in a heap on the floor at the age of 45 and calling for her mum, that Catherine (not her real name) managed to find the inner strength to take control of her own and her young ...
Enjoy a great day out at the Ulster American Folk Park.
Jun 26, 2007 ... The Ulster American Folk Park is an award-winning museum of emigration and folk life telling the story of the floods of emigrants who left these shores over three centuries. Exhibits include "Emigrants" indoor museum. The outdoor museum has over 30 exhibits, mostly original ...
Dungannon Heritage Trail is launched.
Jun 26, 2007 ... GET on your walking shoes and learn the tales and trails of Dungannon town! Bookings are now taking place for the latest series of Dungannon Town Summer Heritage Trails, which will be commencing on Saturdays from the 30th of June to 18th of August at 11am. Departing ...
Assault charge denied.
Jun 26, 2007 ... A DONAGHMORE man denied a charge of assault when he appeared before East Tyrone Magistrates Court. Laurence McGuigan, 40, of Garvagh Road, is alleged to have ...
[pounds sterling]6Million to be spent on road improvements.
Jun 26, 2007 ... MAJOR resurfacing work is to be carried out on roads in the Borough as part of a [pounds sterling]6million investment announced by Roads Service in the next 12 months. Speaking ahead of a meeting between Roads Service and Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council, the Minister ...
Community champion's hard work earns an MBE.
Jun 26, 2007 ... DUNGANNON woman, Mary O'Neill, who received an MBE this week for her services to the community, is not a woman who likes to stand on the edges of life looking in. Her decision, twenty years ago to become a volunteer with the local Citizen's Advice Bureau after the death of her ...
Pre-sentence reports for disqualified motorist.
Jun 26, 2007 ... A MONEYMORE driver charged with driving whilst disqualifed had her case adjourned until July 20 for pre-sentence reports. Lesley Ann Johnston, 19, from Springvale, appeared at East Tyrone Magistrates Court on Friday. The court heard ...
In custody on drug charges.
Jun 26, 2007 ... A COOKSTOWN man, facing charges of possessing Class A drugs, has had his case adjourned until September 7. Raymond Martin McKenna appeared at East Tyrone Magistrates Court on Friday flanked by two security ...
Sports body makes award to Donaghmore project.
Jun 26, 2007 ... AN award of almost [pounds sterling]600,000 from Sport Northern Ireland will go towards the construction of an exciting new indoor sports facility for the Donaghmore area. The organisation (previously the Sports Council for Northern Ireland) approved awards of [pounds ...
Drug arrest made.
Jun 26, 2007 ... POLICE arrested a male after the planned search of a house in the Mullaghmore Park area of Dungannon on Friday evening. A small quantity of drugs ...
Sweet smell of success.
Jun 26, 2007 ... A MAGHERY couple, who turned their farm into a giant waste dump, have been ordered to cease operating their composting business after complaints that it was fouling the Lough-shore. Mr and Mrs Breslan, from Derrylee Road, were slammed by the Planning Appeals Commission for ...