Lurgan
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Sep 15, 2026
Phyllis VincelliNARRATOR
This was chiefly due, he said, to his having been brought up to the work in the linen mills, and to the difficulty that he found in adapting himself to any other.
Phyllis VincelliNARRATOR
And now his narrative suddenly glowed with active personal interest, for with each succeeding sentence about his apprenticeship in Lurgan there rose into clearer memory visions of a charming fortnight once spent at the home of the owners of the mill.
Phyllis VincelliNARRATOR
I have set for myself today the task of describing the past week of actual service in the ranks of the industrial army.
Phyllis VincelliNARRATOR
My pen runs wide of the subject, and I have to force it to the retrospect.
Micky BartlettHOST
Yeah.
Micky BartlettHOST
Which is mad because yesterday I was at a, there's a petrol station in Lurgan, right? And it's the forecourt is very, very badly designed, I would say.
Micky BartlettHOST
Right.
Micky BartlettHOST
So there's one section of the petrol stations there.
13 MINS LATER
Micky BartlettHOST
I know, I know, couldn't get me into a fucking movie, the dick.
Micky BartlettHOST
Him writing it too.
Micky BartlettHOST
Do you know what, he could write a bit, there's a guy called Mickey, second name, oh, what about a comedian walks in from Lurgan? Done.
Micky BartlettHOST
Do you know what I mean? I have an idea.
Lynette FayHOST
yeah, yeah, from Larkin.
Fra FeeGUEST
From Lurgan, taught me the flute.
Fra FeeGUEST
She was in it.
Fra FeeGUEST
Laura Henderson from Dungannon.
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
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William MaxwellHOST
What's needed now is some garage punk blues from Lurgan.
William MaxwellHOST
Here is the Bonvilles and Awaken from Slumber, taken from their excellent Age of Monsters album.
William MaxwellHOST
They play the marine bar whitehead on the 20th September.
Dave ElliottHOST
likes, yeah, just John.
Dave ElliottHOST
John and Lurgan, like that.
Dave ElliottHOST
Now, that's got a bad effect because that'll have the, what I call the jar rule effect, which is where 50 Cent bought all jar rules from 10 rows of his concert.
Dave ElliottHOST
Brilliant.
16 MINS LATER
Sean HegartyGUEST
Depends, did he die after 99? Do you know what I mean? It'd be going nowhere near, but yeah, it's going well.
Sean HegartyGUEST
It's literally just an idea I had I was originally going to open a video shop, like a video rental shop.
Sean HegartyGUEST
And then I thought, one, it's Lurgan, which probably most people still have VCRs, if anywhere in this country.
Sean HegartyGUEST
But I just, I was like, it's not substantial.
JoeAUDIENCE
Hi, Stephen.
JoeAUDIENCE
I was just driving out of Lurgan yesterday, and just at the lights, just opposite Charlie Lockhart's office, was like a post, like an election banner, you know, they put up an election campaign poster, and there was an orange man and a drum, and below the head of that there, it said, we will beat them.
JoeAUDIENCE
Now, what does that mean? Is that up at the
Stephen NolanHOST
moment, is it?
FredAUDIENCE
Yeah, but they work for everybody, or are supposed to work for everybody.
FredAUDIENCE
And regardless of taking the flags down, earlier in the year it was said that the police would be responsible for taking the flags down.
FredAUDIENCE
But if you happen to be in Lurgan, and for this last number of months, it's been at the very police station door.
FredAUDIENCE
There's a flagpole and there's a flag of a foreign country on it and the nationalists bumping from that to the next pole at the police station
Shane ToddHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Micky BartlettGUEST
And I drank two of them on the train from Lurgan to Belfast, and then I got three pre-mixed gin and tonics because of the flowers on, so I was walking through Belfast like, "This is class.
Micky BartlettGUEST
You can just drink."
Shane ToddHOST
Sorry, I love that you're acting like, "'Cause the flower was on."
Micky BartlettGUEST
Yeah, exactly.
Shane ToddHOST
But that was the first time I was like, I feel like people looked around and went, "Oh, we could've been doing this for the last 30 years."
Micky BartlettGUEST
Well, there was a thing, I remember talking to a barman in Lurgan.
Micky BartlettGUEST
Y- there used to be a festival in Lurgan, and I had said-
speaker_4NARRATOR
The Profiler with Kerry Daines.
Kerry DaynesHOST
Lurgan in Northern Ireland, the birthplace of my mother.
Kerry DaynesHOST
When I was growing up, it was rarely out of the news.
Kerry DaynesHOST
The troubles were still raging and the people of this town, 18 miles southwest of Belfast, saw some of the worst sectarian violence.
14 MINS LATER
Kerry DaynesHOST
But six weeks after Natalie's death, detectives were no closer to catching the killer.
Catherine KieransSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Towards the end of January 2023, the investigation was reaching a bit of a stalling point and they decided to do a complete review of all of the evidence gathered to date.
Catherine KieransSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And this included trawling back through all of the CCTV from the night and an officer was going through the CCTV from public transport coming into Lurgan from all corners of Northern Ireland.
Catherine KieransSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And one investigator found the footage of a male on a bus from Dunmarie into Lurgan and thought the person in this footage was suspicious.
Micky BartlettHOST
It was like a reading of Hamlet that day.
Micky BartlettHOST
Have you ever heard Hamlet in a Lurgan accent? Fucking shite Please can I hear it I can't even remember which one Is Hamlet to be or not to be It was that one Aye Or is that Macbeth
William ThompsonHOST
No it's Hamlet
Micky BartlettHOST
Aye When you're hearing like Till be or not till be Like you're going That's a fucking question It was a modern twist I was trying to go all Baz Luhrmann Didn't work Didn't work at all Yeah
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