Armagh, Northern Ireland News

HCL has announced a 90-day consultation period on proposals to close its contact centre in Armagh and to reduce employment in its Belfast contact centre.

TEACHERS and parents of pupils at Drumcree College face an anxious wait this weekend ahead of Monday's announcement on the future of the school.

A 25-year-old man has been critically injured after the car he was in was attacked in south Armagh.

REVENUE and Customs officials have attended the scene of a fire in the Benburb area which completely destroyed a shed which is believed to have contained a suspected fuel laundering plant.

A FORMER leader of the UUP has said it is unfair of Stormont to have publicly accused victims group FAIR of financial irregularities - and then "bottle up" the outcome of an investigation.

David George Ulster Bank Ken Gracey and William McCracken pictured at the launch of the Mullahead Ploughing Match in the Bannville Hotel on Wednesday evening.

A STORMONT minister has slammed the Irish Government for issuing eight months of "holding replies" to requests for a meeting with IRA victims - while giving "almost immediate access" to other Troubles victims.

SHOCKED English MPs have rejected a Stormont minister's testimony that the IRA carried out "genocide" against unionists in south Armagh.

LAST Saturday, Tyrone defeated Derry in the final of the McKenna Cup at the Athletic Grounds in Armagh.

A DEBUT appearance by the North's First Minister Peter Robinson at a GAA match has been hailed as "a little piece of history" by his deputy Martin McGuinness .

RICHHILL Library is to have its opening hours reduced by just over a third, it was revealed this week with the publication of the long-awaited decision by Libraries NI.

Dr James Reilly, Minister for Health and Minister of State RA3isA n Shortall today attended the first all-island conference on the issue of alcohol abuse held in Armagh.

A briefing on the alleged smuggling operations of Thomas 'Slab' Murphy, given to then secretary of state for Northern Ireland Tom King by a colonel in the British army, was significantly exaggerated the Smithwick Tribunal has heard.

Parents have told of their high respect for both Aghavilly and Keady Primary Schools - and the deep sense of sadness surrounding the closures.

A GP who comes from Cookstown originally has been awarded 'General Practitioner of the Year for his work with diabetic patients.

PETER Hain said that on July 27, 2005, the day before the IRA declared that it was ending violence for good and agreeing to decommission, Gerry Adams had phoned him to request a private meeting.

The talk was entitled, "Moving forward from a divided past", and Lord Eames covered many of his experiences of the past 20 years.