The Food Standards Agency send Inspectors regularly to assess the hygiene standards in public establishments where food is stored, processed and served to the public.
Recreation
Midsummer Music
Thursday week is midsummer’s day and, as usual Newry Chamber Music is hosting a classical concert in celebration!
Schumann at Courtyard
Sunday week (22 May) is the next Quigley Concert, when Newry Chamber Music presents The Schumann Quartet in the beautiful surroundings of Slieve Gullion Courtyard, Dromintee.
Summer Sessions
From this time of year on, our overseas visitors – and returned emigrants – will be here on holiday. You might need reminding of the venues of the traditional music sessions : that is, where to find good traditional music, sing-songs and excellent company.
Newry Film Club: Secret in their Eyes
We have just returned from Newry Film Club’s April offering, the Academy Award winning ‘The Secret in their Eyes’.
Mountain Year : Farm Woman
Michael J Murphy writes [Mountain Year, Blackstaff ’64 ] of the woman on the farm of time ago.
Rebels and Loyalists in Carlingford
The next in the Young Ireland: Rebels and Loyalists series of political addresses is on Thursday evening (8.00 pm) of this week in the Heritage Centre Carlingford, where the speakers will include Tim Pat Coogan, James Quinn, Brendan O Cathaoir and John Dunlop, each of whom in his own way is an authority on the life and times of the leading figures from that most influential period of Irish history.
Sunshine & Oranges
‘Sunshine and oranges’ … what was promised to the ‘orphan’ children who were seized and exported to the antipodes to become victims of abuse. There is an excellent film of the name just released and there follows a review: then a tribute to the Newry children who suffered this fate.
Drama Festival: the results
The really good news from Newry Drama Festival is that local group Newpoint (who presented the excellent ‘Dancing at Lughnasa’) is through to the Ulster Finals at the Theatre at the Mill in Newtownabbey in a month’s time.