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Kirsty King

Reporter · GB

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Sep 26, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · By Kirsty King

    Train services in Lurgan suspended due to security alert (opens the original)

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    Train services in Lurgan have been suspended until further notice due to an ongoing security alert. Buses are currently operating between Lisburn and Portadown for local services and between Belfast and Newry for Enterprise passengers. The disruption comes after police received a report of suspicious circumstances in the Lake Street area of the town on Friday night. A spokesperson for Translink said: “Due to a security alert at Lurgan the train line is closed in both directions.” The spokesp

  2. Article · Sep 12, 2026 · By Kirsty King

    Review: The Co Down restaurant I keep returning to – and why it’s worth the drive from Belfast (opens the original)

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    While I now reside in the big smoke with many a terrific restaurant on my doorstep, The Barn Bar and Country Kitchen in Saul always calls me home. Around a 50-minute drive south-east from Belfast and just outside Downpatrick, one draw is the restaurant’s tranquil surroundings. Nestled in the heart of St Patrick’s country, the site of the Saint’s earliest place of Christian worship in Ireland is only a stone’s throw away. Also close by is Slieve Patrick, or St Patrick’s Mountain, which

  3. Article · Sep 7, 2026 · By Kirsty King

    Former Galgorm MD swapped corporate career for a paintbrush – now her art sells around the world (opens the original)

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    “I think oftentimes whenever you pivot into something creative, people can see that as being kind of frivolous or self-indulgent, particularly if you have responsibilities like kids and a mortgage and all of those things,” says artist Yvonne Moore, who recently held her first solo pop-up exhibition in Belfast. After working in various corporate roles throughout her career, including a stint as managing director at Galgorm Resort, the mother-of-two from Ballymena first picked up a paintbrush

  4. Article · Aug 18, 2026 · By Kirsty King

    ‘I want artists to feel like they are the centre of attention’: Shadé Mawo on creating Belfast’s intimate Listening Room (opens the original)

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    “Growing up black and Irish, you kind of have two different worlds that merge, so this is tapping a lot more into my Irish side of things”, says musician Shadé Mawo of The Listening Room, a project she launched in Belfast at the end of last year. Hailing from Navan in Co Meath, Shadé has been living in the city for the past six years, and now curates the regular event in various pubs and café venues to showcase local musicians, poets and spoken word artists. After running art and wellbein

  5. Article · Aug 16, 2026 · By Kirsty King

    Roger Casement relative backs campaign for rebel’s remains to be reinterred in Co Antrim (opens the original)

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    A group advocating for the remains of Roger Casement to be moved to Co Antrim has said a bloodline relative of the Easter Rising organiser has thrown his “full weight” behind the campaign. Casement was executed on August 3, 1916 in London’s Pentonville Prison, after being found guilty of treason for his role in planning the rising. One of the Co Dublin-born rebel’s last wishes, outlined in a letter to his cousin Elizabeth Bannister days before he was hanged, was to be buried at Murlough

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