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BBC News
22-07-2025
- BBC News
Rathfriland: Three people charged following serious assaults
Three people have been charged after two serious assaults in County Down on received a report just after 21:10 BST on Sunday that a woman was found with facial injuries by a member of the public in the Newry Street area of woman said she had been held her against her will and assaulted in a property in the Dromore Street, officers attended the address and found a man, who also had facial injuries.A 25-year-old woman, a 23-year-old man and another man aged 29 will appear before Newry Magistrates Court on Tuesday. The woman has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, false imprisonment, robbery, theft and theft of a vehicle.A 23-year-old man is charged with two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, false imprisonment, theft, theft of a vehicle and robbery, While the older male faces charges, including two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, false imprisonment, non-fatal strangulation, theft, theft of a vehicle and robbery.
BreakingNews.ie
22-07-2025
- BreakingNews.ie
Three people arrested after man and woman seriously assaulted at house in Co Down
Three people have been arrested by police investigating a serious assault against two people at a property in Rathfriland in Co Down. A woman, who is aged in her 30s, said she had been held against her will by three people at the property on Dromore Street area, before she was repeatedly assaulted. Advertisement Detective Sergeant Stewart said that police received a report just after 9.10pm that a woman with facial injuries had been found by a member of the public in the Newry Street area. Police spoke to the woman, who said she had been assaulted throughout the evening. Response officers, with the assistance of colleagues from the Armed Response Unit, went to the property on Dromore Street. Inside, they found a man, aged in his 30s, who had also sustained serious facial injuries. Advertisement The injured man and woman were taken to hospital for treatment. Detective Sergeant Stewart said: 'We have arrested a 25-year-old woman on suspicion of a number of offences, including assault occasioning actual bodily harm, false imprisonment and robbery. 'A man, aged 29, has been arrested on suspicion of a number of offences, including assault occasioning actual bodily harm, false imprisonment and non-fatal strangulation. 'A second man, aged 23, has also been arrested on suspicion of a number of offences, including assault occasioning actual bodily harm, false imprisonment and robbery. Advertisement 'They remain in custody at this time. 'We would appeal to anyone who may have noticed any suspicious behaviour in the Dromore Street area throughout Sunday to make contact us. 'We would also be keen to hear from anyone who may have dashcam, CCTV or other footage.'
BBC News
21-07-2025
- BBC News
Rathfriland: Three arrested after woman said she was held against her will
Three people have been arrested after a woman said she was held against her will and assaulted in County Down. Police received a report just after 21:10 BST on Sunday that a woman was found with facial injuries by a member of the public in the Newry Street area of Rathfriland. The woman, aged in her 30s, told police that three people had held her against her will in a property in the Dromore Street area and had been repeatedly assaulted throughout the attended the property in the Dromore Street area and found a man, aged in his 30s, who had also sustained serious facial injuries. The injured man and woman were taken to hospital for Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said they have arrested a 25-year-old woman on suspicion of a number of offences including assault occasioning actual bodily harm, false imprisonment and robbery. A man, aged 29, was arrested on suspicion of a number of offences including assault occasioning actual bodily harm, false imprisonment and non-fatal strangulation.A second man, aged 23, has also been arrested on suspicion of a number of offences including assault occasioning actual bodily harm, false imprisonment, and remain in custody at this are appealing to anyone who may have noticed any suspicious behaviour in the Dromore Street area on Sunday to contact them.
BBC News
07-06-2025
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Rathfriland literary festival celebrates Brontës' County Down link
The first literary festival to take place in Rathfriland will this weekend celebrate the Brontë family's connection to the Literary Festival will feature authors, poets and music in celebration of the area's contributions to the arts, both past and famous sisters' father was a clergyman in nearby Drumballyroney before moving to Ada Elliot told BBC News NI he had been "perhaps been overlooked" in the telling of the Brontë family story. 'Rathfriland is a spectacular area' Patrick Brontë was born Patrick Brunty in County Down in March 1777 - St Patrick's Day - explaining his first name - and changed his surname when he moved to England. Three of his children - Charlotte, Emily and Anne - became authors, with Charlotte writing Jane Eyre and Emily writing Wuthering Heights - both gothic romances set in the north of England, with strong psychological components. Anne Brontë wrote The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which explores themes of social duty and the place of women in the Victorian world."Although the girls are not part of Rathfriland he (Patrick) has a long history here," festival organiser Ada Elliott told BBC Radio Ulster's Your Place and Mine programme."Rathfriland is a spectacular area. We're very proud of it and that's why we want to celebrate it." Historians through the years have speculated on whether Patrick Brontë's Irish roots might have influenced his daughter's writing, and even whether they might have had Irish Down celebrates those links. A signposted Brontë interpretive trail runs for 10 miles from an interpretive centre around Rathfriland and its surrounds, allowing visitors to drive through the area and imagine how the windswept Mournes might have influenced the father of girls whose writing was mystical, passionate and local historian Uel Wright believes more could be done."If you come here you cannot fail to see Brontë signs everywhere," he told BBC News NI. "Roads, homeland, library, nursery, steakhouse - all Brontë." Despite the wave of enthusiasm that led to those celebrations in the 1990s, the stone cottage where Patrick Brontë was born lies in ruins. Mr Wright hopes public money can be used to restore it and celebrate the link."My theory is that unless there's another generation of interest and enthusiasm to keep the Irish Brontë heritage alive, we're going to lose something very important." Mr Wright's great-great-uncle William Wright wrote a book on the Brontës in Wright believes those stories were based in oral history, in which his ancestor had a great interest, and he will examine them at a talk on Sunday in the schoolhouse where Patrick Brontë taught. "The whole Irish part of the story has gone out of fashion but with the upsurge of interest in oral history let's say - this is what we have in Ireland," he says."Let's celebrate it."Later on Sunday author Martina Devlin, who has written a novel based on Charlotte Brontë's honeymoon in County Offaly, will speak in the original church where he preached before leaving Ireland in 1802. The Rath Literary Festival started on Friday and runs until Sunday. It has been organised by the Rathfriland Women's Institute, Rathfriland Regeneration and Hilltown Community Association and will feature music and a one-woman show imagining the sisters in the modern day, by Pauline will read poems inspired by 19th Century women caught up in the criminal justice and mental health systems, and a walking tour will tell the stories of famous Rathfriland residents down the years. The festival was the brainchild of Margot Groves, who said: "We are delighted to be bringing such a wealth of talent to Rathfriland. There is something for everyone to enjoy no matter which genre they prefer." And did the Brontë sisters have Irish accents?"It wouldn't be surprising," says Uel Wright."Patrick never made great pretensions with his accent."I don't suppose we'll ever really know but it wouldn't be beyond the realms of possibility."
