Slemish
Parades Commission to review with PSNI Orange parade near Slemish on St Patrick's Day
The Parades Commission will review with the PSNI an Orange parade through the village of Broughshane as St Patrick's Day pilgrims were making their way to Slemish Mountain.
Orange Order parade in Broughshane causes 'upset and delay' for trekkers heading for annual St Patrick's Day Slemish pilgrimage
An Orange march around a Co Antrim village on St Patrick’s Day led to "delay and upset" for people making the annual Slemish Mountain pilgrimage, it has been claimed.
Nuala McCann: Never mind climbing Slemish – I'm ready to rock the Casbah
You may think Slemish is a hill but with a reluctant child to get up and down, it’s Everest and where you can never find a decent Sherpa about Broughshane when you need one?
Co Antrim engineering firm announces plans to create 40 jobs in Ballymena
A NEW welding and fabrication business in Co Antrim has announced plans to create 40 jobs in the coming months.
Nuala McCann: My hippocampus is shrinking but that moustachio-ed woman on Slemish haunts me still
HEY presto, I’ve found it – the secret to why I’m standing at the top of the stairs, eyeing the layer of soft dust on the windowsill, and wondering why I went up.
Nuala McCann: Yes, I got lost in France but, more and more, there's no place like home
TIME moves at a slower rhythm in the place where I was born.
Nuala McCann: Still my holy mountain, Slemish, rests easy on the gaze
FROM my bedroom window, Slemish rose up, perfectly framed – a watercolour painting from a childhood long ago.
Anne Hailes: A drama summer holiday can give children so much
IF MEMBERS of your family have been doyens of the Ulster stage since 1896, you’d certainly know a thing or two about theatre.
A pilgrimage up the holy mountain of Slemish was how we celebrated St Patrick's Day
THE St Patrick’s Day when the central heating boiler broke down is many moons ago – at least four decades in ordinary time.
Father and his son (6) saved from Slemish mountain by rescue team
A MAN and his six-year-old son were at the centre of a rescue operation on Slemish mountain.