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There was standing room only at a residential property auction at the Europa Hotel in Belfast recently

Survey confirms near 50pc house price drop

HOUSE prices in Northern Ireland have almost halved from peak levels, the province’s most comprehensive residential property survey revealed yesterday.

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David Trimble

Trimble questions Robinson’s bid to woo Catholic voters

PETER Robinson’s appeals for a shared future in Northern Ireland are aimed at wooing liberal Protestants rather than Catholics, Lord Trimble has claimed.

Ian Paisley

Prayers and messages of support for Paisley

FORMER First Minister Ian Paisley remained in intensive care for a fourth night at the Ulster Hospital last night surrounded by his wife and family.

PACEMAKER, BELFAST, 8/9/2011: Agriculture Minister Michelle O'Neill watches the eels being sorted at Lough Neagh Eel Fishermen's Co-operative Society with Father Oliver Kennedy, Chairman of the Co-op, during her visit to Toomebridge today.  The visit marks the award of Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) to Lough Neagh Eels.
PICTURE BY STEPHEN DAVISON

Minister under fire for ‘snub’ on fishing talks

THE Conservative Party has attacked the Sinn Fein Agriculture Minister for failing to show up at a meeting with Portavogie fishermen and the UK fisheries minister.

�Press Eye Ltd Northern Ireland - 8th February 2012 Mandatory Credit - Photo-Jonathan Porter/Presseye. Rev Roy Patton elected the new Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in ireland. Rev Paton pictured at Presbyterian Church Headquarters at Assembly Buildings in Belfast City Centre.

Moderator to be ‘good neighbour’

INCOMING Presbyterian moderator the Rev Roy Patton has pledged to be a good neighbourly church leader reaching out in reconciliation, love and understanding in a way that reflects his Christian calling.

Sport rss

John Burrows with the Moira MCC Honda

Burrows secures ex-Amor Honda

Evergreen road racer John Burrows will ride a Honda CBR600-RR for the Moira Motorcycle Club on the roads this season.

Crusaders' Chris Morrow

Morrow is top player for month of January

Chris Morrow’s silverware collection is steadily growing this season – and he hopes the success continues in 2012.

4/1/12 PACEMAKER BELFAST. The new Northern Ireland international football manager Michael O'Neill at his first press conference at IFA head quarters, Windsor Avenue, Belfast. Picture CHARLES MCQUILLAN/PACEMAKER

NI boss confirms backroom panel

NORTHERN Ireland Manager Michael O’Neill has confirmed his backroom staff.

Stephen Ferris

IRELAND RECEIVE FERRIS BOOST

IRELAND and Ulster backrow, Stephen Ferris, was exonerated yesterday by a Six Nations disciplinary panel for any alleged misdemeanor from his tackle on Welsh lock, Ian Evans, during Sunday’s match in Dublin.

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Ulster's Robbie Diack

ROBBIE READY TO GRAB HIS CHANCE

ULSTER loose forward Robbie Diack insists the distraction of the off field coaching situation will not affect the players when they run out at Ravenhill to face the Dragons in the Pro12 League tomorrow night (7.05pm).

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Ireland put Wales defeat behind them and get back to work video

With just a six day turnaround between their late defeat to Wales and their next game against France, Ireland are back down to business as they look to get their Six Nations campaign back on track.

Lifestyle rss

Health Minister Edwin Poots with Dr William Dickey, Colonoscopy Quality Assurance Lead for Northern Ireland,

‘Bowel cancer test may save your life’

BOWEL cancer is the second most common cancer in Northern Ireland and claims the lives of 400 local people each year, but when detected at a very early stage there is a 90 per cent successful treatment rate.

Bowel cancer patient Margaret Fenton, from Omagh, shows off the life-saving bowel cancer test along with Dr Janet Little, Assistant Director of Service Development and Screening at the Public Health Agency and Larne bowel cancer patient Alaster Smyth at the PHA launch of its bowel cancer screening programme awareness campaign.

‘I feel lucky cancer was detected’

Alaster Smyth, 68, from Glynn, near Larne in Co Antrim praises the bowel cancer screening programme, led by the Public Health Agency, for saving his life.

George VI

George VI: remembering the monarch 60 years on

King George VI died peacefully in his sleep at Sandringham on February 6, 1952 and his death was the occasion of a great outpouring of national grief. Local historian GORDON LUCY reflects on monarch’s life

Pacemaker Press Belfast 21-01-2012: Hilary Glenn pictured at her home in Dromore on facebook . Silver Facebookers feature. Picture By: Arthur Allison.

Silver surfers face up to social networking

If we’re complaining that our children are too busy to talk to us, there is one medium through which we can be sure of keeping up with their adventures - Facebook. And more older people then ever before are logging on to this popular website, as LAURA MURPHY finds out when she meets two ‘silver Facebookers’

‘I’m back in touch with people’

ABOUT two years ago Co Down woman Hilary Glenn set up a Facebook profile and received her first friend request.

Community rss

BEN LOWRY: The epidemic of bad grammar

HOWEVER you feel about Gerry Adams, we can recognise one thing.

Maze plan shows victims no respect

IN response to your excellent Morning View about the proposed Conflict Transformation Centre at the Maze (February 4), which finished with the question of ‘why perpetuate a living nightmare and cause further anguish for the multitude of victims?’ I would submit the following:

NR GREER: NI needs to explore its potential

I have not been skiing for 25 years or so, but last weekend I got talked into a weekend in Andorra.

Praise for courage of Irish ‘deserters’

I must respond to the letter ‘A case for pardoning deserters’ from Tom Cooper, Dublin (News Letter, January 31).

Maze centre is ‘totally disgusting’

WITH hospitals and industry struggling for funding and financial solvency we are informed that the mandarins in Stormont, having pursued European money, are to allocate £18m to a conflict resolution centre at the Maze.

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