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Tragedy brings home changes to Portadown's Mourneview Street

Police are conducting house-to-house inquiries in the Mourneview Street area of Portadown after arresting five people in connection with the discovery of a man's body in a stream at the rear of a builder's yard 
I lived in Mourneview Street, Portadown, for two years in the mid-1990s. The body found in a stream there this weekend is of a Lithuanian man, Eimantas Gerdvilas, from another part of town - but the street and its surrounding Annagh neighbourhood are the epicentre of Portadown’s migrant worker population. The Catholic primary school, seemingly doomed 20 years ago, has five times the enrolment today due to the highest proportion of ‘newcomer’ children in Northern Ireland. Thinking of someone meeting their end so far from home, I can only marvel at the circumsta[...]
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