Antrim news

• Ben Lowry: McGuinness travelled a long way but his past was so ruthless it cannot be ignored

  25-03-2017 23:14
  The coffin of Northern Ireland's former deputy first minister and ex-IRA commander Martin McGuinness is carried down Westland Street into the Bogside ahead of his funeral at St Columba's Church Long Tower, in Londonderry. Photo: Chris Radburn/PA Wire On Thursday I reported on the funeral of Martin McGuinness, walking like thousands of other people behind his coffin as it was carried from his house in Westland Terrace in the Bogside to St Columba's church.
  
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• Ed Moloney: He was savagely cruel, but only McGuinness could end the terror

  25-03-2017 19:07
  The sudden if not unexpected death of Martin McGuinness is one of those occasions which calls for journalists, and citizens, to don the philosopher's hat to ask the following question: is it right or proper to overlook the sins of an individual if, thanks to those sins, that person's life concluded by making others' lives better? In McGuinness' case, he was the IRA leader who had conducted an orchestra of death and destruction for most of his republican career but became the man of peace who hel
  
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• Swann to take over as Ulster Unionist leader without a contest

  25-03-2017 14:46
  The Ulster Unionist Party's new leader is set to be Robin Swann after he submitted his name yesterday on the deadline for nominations - and not a single other candidate came forward. Mr Swann, the party's chief whip at Stormont, will formally be ratified as the 16th Ulster Unionist leader in its 112-year history at the party's annual general meeting in a fortnight's time.
  
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• Police have interviewed 15 people suspected of drugs offences, court hears

  25-03-2017 10:26
  A total of 15 suspects accused of drugs offences have now been interviewed by police, it emerged at Coleraine Magistrates Court on Monday, March 20. Defence solicitor Garrett Greene said the case involves "an assisting offender" and he wanted the prosecution's timeline to be "realistic". The developments emerged as father and son, both called Peter Neill, from Coleraine, appeared side by side in the dock.
  
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• Man charged over barroom attack on former leading loyalist granted bail

  25-03-2017 06:19
  A man accused of attempting to murder a former leading loyalist in a barroom attack has been granted High Court bail. Aaron Cahoon, 27, allegedly drove some members of a ten-strong gang to the pub in Doagh, Co Antrim where Darren Moore was beaten with an assortment of weapons last week.
  
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• Prospect of a united Ireland is inevitable

  25-03-2017 02:15
  Growing up in Belfast at the tail end of the Troubles, the so called "Irish question" always seemed a hypothetical one. The Good Friday Agreement was seen as answering the question of whether the island of Ireland could be reunited once and for all, establishing as it did that Northern Ireland would only rejoin the South if a majority of citizens voted in a referendum or plebiscite for the option.
  
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