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Northern Ireland · Northern IrelandRHYS McClenaghan is out to become European pommel horse champion for the third time this weekend. The Newtownards gymnast will aim to defend the crown he won in Antalya last year and make it a career hat-trick of European titles at Friday night’s Championship final in Rimini, Italy. McClenaghan warmed up for his latest title shot by claiming bronze at last week’s Apparatus World Cup in Doha. The double world champion has been working on a new ro…See the Story
RHYS EYES TREBLE AS BARRY BAGS BRONZE IN MADEIRA
Northern Ireland · Northern IrelandTHIS coming Saturday (April 27) will see the second race meeting of the 2024 season at Kirkistown Race Circuit. All of the domestic championships are featured, including the amazing Superkarts. There is a good entry in Formula Ford 1600: Ballymena driver David McCullough will be trying to get the better of Jason Smith (Celbridge), who won both races in March. Ronan Doherty, from Dunloy, will also be at the very sharp end, as will Jordan Kelly, …See the Story
PACKED PROGRAMME FOR KIRKISTOWN MEETING
Northern Ireland · Northern IrelandBy Sarah Curran A COMBER mother has issued a heartfelt warning to other home owners after a fire in her tumble dryer caused major damage to her home. Lyn Gillespie’s kitchen was destroyed in the Friday afternoon blaze, and although no-one was injured in the fire, she says the situation could have been much worse had the fire occurred at night when they were asleep. The mother of three young daughters, who has been forced to move home until repai…See the Story
COMBER MUM’S WARNING AFTER TUMBLE DRYER BLAZE
Northern Ireland · Northern IrelandBy Gabrielle Swan THE pupils of Ballywalter Primary School were the stars of a ‘seal shanty’ last week, lending their voices to the educational ballad for the Portaferry based, Exploris Aquarium. The children have been keen to spread their love of the big-eyed flipper-footed sea creatures which are cared for at the complex, Northern Ireland’s only seal rescue centre. This was done via an informative seal shanty, sung by the school’s performance …See the Story
SEAL SHANTY STUDENTS BID FAREWELL TO DAFFODIL AND CONKER
Hospitals · Northern IrelandBy Ruth Dowds NEWTOWNARDS electrician Chris Johnston has given the spark of life back to a stranger who would have almost certainly died without his act of great kindness. Last month Chris spent five hours on a hospital bed in London, undergoing a remarkable procedure in which four million stem cells were removed from his blood. He and his wife Lauren casually watched films as Chris’s blood was removed through one arm, circulated around a machi…See the Story
ARDS MAN GIVES GIFT OF LIFE TO STRANGER
Northern Ireland · Northern IrelandA NEWTOWNARDS nurse who has devoted 40 years to caring for patients is to retire this week. Deborah Auld, better known to her patients and colleagues as ‘Nurse Debbie’, is set to retire this Friday, April 26, after four decades of continuous devotion to all her patients. Deborah started her training in March 1984 at Ards Hospital and for the next 36 years she continued her career in Newtownards and Dundonald–based hospitals and as a district nur…See the Story
ARDS NURSE RETIRES AFTER 40 YEARS
Northern Ireland · Northern IrelandBy Annie Stewart THE hugely popular Comber Soapbox TT has been cancelled due to insurance problems. Comber Regeneration Community Partnership (CRCP), which ran the Soapbox TT, has announced that because it cannot secure insurance cover for the event it has been forced to abandon plans to stage it in August. The TT was last staged pre-Covid in 2019 when a crowd of around 7,000 lined the streets to watch home-made soapbox karts career down High St…See the Story