Tomm Moore 26 April, 2021 01:00
Wolfwalkers tells the story of English girl Robyn (voiced by Honor Kneafsey) and Irish girl Mebh (Eva Whittaker), one of the last two wolfwalkers
A FILM made by a Newry-born man was up against some of the industry s finest at the Oscars last night.
Wolfwalkers, produced by Cartoon Saloon, was vying for the gold statuette in the Best Animated Feature Film category.
The Kilkenny-based studio was founded by Co Down man Tomm Moore along with two other friends he met at art college in Dublin in the late 1990s.
This is the fifth time Cartoon Saloon has been nominated for an Oscar.
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By Nuala McCann
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image captionA firefighter pauses for a moment as she gets on with the battle to put out the blaze
It began with puffs of white smoke, but by Friday teatime the people who call the foothills of the Mourne Mountains home began to feel nervous.
As darkness fell, like thousands of others, Laura Devlin and her family stood at a bedroom window watching orange flames devour the night sky. My son who s five said: Mummy, it looks like a volcano.
Ms Devlin is a Mournes woman, born and bred. For people like her, the mountains are more than a pretty watercolour in a tourist shop.
26 April 2021 Abortion services at the Western Trust have been suspended. Alliance MLA Paula Bradshaw said the decision to suspend their early medical abortion service justifies the intervention of the Secretary of State to ensure the law is upheld and services are provided. 26 April 2021 Large gorse fires on the Mourne Mountains in Co Down have been brought under control, according to the Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service (NIFRS). It is believed spaces of ground stretching to around 100 football pitches were affected by the blaze on Slieve Donard. 26 April 2021 Police have arrested a woman on suspicion of murder after a 61-year-old female was found dead at her home in L Derry. The body Ludmila Poletelova was discovered at her house off Main Street in Limavady on Friday, 23 April. A 45-year-old woman was arrested on Sunday and
Almost £21m Announced For Over 850 NI Manufacturers Almost £21 million in further Covid grants are being issued to over 850 manufacturing businesses later this week.
The one-off £25,000 grant is an automatic payment being made to manufacturing businesses operating from commercial premises with a Net Annual Value (NAV) between £15,001 and £51,000.
During a visit to FAST Technologies in Derry, one of the businesses which will receive the grant, Finance Minister Conor Murphy said: Manufacturing businesses are an essential part of our economy employing over 85,000 people across the North. Like many other sectors they ve been adversely impacted throughout the pandemic. This one-off £25,000 grant will provide almost £21 million to over 850 manufacturing businesses, most of which were unable to access grant support in the initial lockdown.
Man who knocked down and killed pensioner (89) while reversing avoids jail part time firefighter John Kinsella who caused the death of a pensioner by dangerous driving. 26 April, 2021 14:34
A PART-TIME fireman who knocked down and killed an 89-year-old grandmother when he reversed his vehicle too quickly around a corner, has avoided jail.
John Kinsella, from Keady in Co Armagh, walked free from Newry Crown Court, sitting in Antrim, after Judge Neil Rafferty QC suspended the six month sentence for three years.
He told the married father-of-three “I have come to the conclusion that no sentence of imprisonment measured in months could equate to the value of the life of Mrs Coyle nor the loss that her family suffered.”