CASTLEWELLAN’S Hillyard House has named award-winning chef Will Brown to head its new restaurant The Yard, unveiled as part of a £3 million investment. The former Co Down guesthouse has created 37 ...

A very strong demand for store lambs - 15kg £111. Fat lambs sold to £160. Cull ewes sold to £240.

Blue-green algae could disrupt an annual triathlon for the second consecutive year, the director of the race has said. Chris Campbell said entries for the 2025 Mourne Sprint Triathlon in Castlewellan ...

The only controlled primary school in a County Down town is set to close, under plans drawn up by the Education Authority (EA). Castlewellan Primary School will shut its doors in September 2020 if the ...

Ellen Finnegan (19) was killed on Saturday morning when the fire broke out in the building in Lower Square, adjoined to Finnegan's butchers. The blaze started at about 4am in the bedroom. Paramedics ...

BURT hurling manager Enda McDermott is hoping that his side can prevail when they meet Castlewellan in the Ulster Junior Club Championship this Sunday. The Hibernian Park residents were Donegal Senior ...

HOW much Burren will have learned from their dismissal of Division Two side Castlewellan remains to be seen, but there was no doubting the quality on show in St Patrick’s Park, Mayobridge, and they ...

A good entry of sheep to Hilltown Mart on Thursday 16th October saw fat ewes sell to £208 and fat lambs to £155.

A stone in a Castlewellan forest park honouring former Co Down IRA man Paul Magorrian has been branded an “affront to public decency” and should be removed, according to a unionist councillor. South ...

Eric Cullen, Cyril Cullen, and George Kirkpatrick were convicted for the murder of 17-year-old Francis Rice in 1981 The convictions of three men, who were jailed for a Troubles murder that they have ...

The case of three men, jailed for a 1970s murder they have always denied, is to be re-opened. George Kirkpatrick and brothers Eric and Cyril Cullen, known as the Castlewellan Three, were jailed for ...