Ballymoney

Mark is 50.

He was last seen at around six in the evening on Saturday the 24th of October after a collision at Ballybogey in Ballymoney.

He was driving a grey Audi A4.

The other vehicle was a grey Nissan Juke.

Now Joe was my lecturer at the TEC and he said come up.

So I went up to Ballymoney and was there for two and a

half years.

So it's even over your transitioning from that where you're playing in the morning and playing in the afternoon.

There had once been a strong liberal tradition among Ulster Protestants, especially among the Presbyterians, but Gladstone's home rule bills had virtually killed it.

One of those left, the Reverend James Armour, a Presbyterian clergyman from Ballymoney, had been one of those who facilitated the extending of the invitation to Winston Churchill, who, as a member of Asquith's liberal government, being the first Lord of the Admiralty, had come to speak.

Another of the men who was to be a prominent speaker at the Home Rule Rally was Joseph Devlin.

Belfast politics was up close and personal and if Ulster Protestants had to put a name to this threat it was the Irish Parliamentary MP Joseph Devlin who represented predominantly Catholic and Nationalist West Belfast.

To speak to the police, you can call 101 and quote reference 664 of the 23rd of February 2025.

Finally, police in Ballymoney are appealing for information after a man was beaten and shot at a house in Stratton View.

The attack happened at about half past midnight on Tuesday the 27th of October.

Four masked men entered the property armed with a handgun and armbars.

It was a very bad year.

My father got a job teaching in Dalriada School in Ballymoney, so I was raised up in the country.

When I arrived there, I got teased in school.

I arrived into P4, and I can still remember the children laughing at my Belfast vowels, because I would say, I'm going over there, and I'm going to brush my hair, and I'll play with Claire.

And they would laugh.

And I vividly remember sitting in my new bedroom in Ballymoney, teaching myself how to say, I'm going to brush my hair, and I'm going over there, and I'll play with Claire.

A child alone, practicing the sounds of fitting in, I discovered that ordinary things, your vowels, could be heard by other people as signals of identity and belonging.

My father had grown up on the Lisburn Road, within the sound of the orange men marching and fluting and singing.

But that's about to change with two newly announced gigs.

First up, they get suited and booted to play the Boosh Tavern in Ballymoney alongside Deadly Sons on Halloween night.

Then on November 7th, catch them at the Dears Head Belfast sharing the stage with Job Seekers, PXBX and Buck Egypt.

They're presently in the studio recording a new EP for release at the end of the year.

No, you've got some.

People come from Ballymoney.

There are pensioners.

If anybody spread the word, do you think anybody even shop-

Yeah.

Also, I have to give a mention to the Causeway Coast Piping Society, who this past week there on October 9th, or just before that, actually, sorry, they had their night in Ballymoney Town.

And they had such an amazing night, if anything.

Yeah, they've been publishing little videos and stuff up from that evening.

And it went on year after year after year.

And I really didn't expect, I really thought in 1998, which was the year the March died of shame, after the three little Quinn boys were killed in Ballymoney, I just thought that was it, you know, that it was gone and gone and wouldn't come back.

But the monster has raised its head again.

What did you say, Anne?

Where would each of you be tonight? So I want us to be challenged by three As.

I'm a member of a Baptist church in Ballymoney, so three points, alliteration, it's always good to have.

But I- I'm leaving us here this evening with the three As, and they're all found immediately in this passage.

Firstly, we can see is His authority.