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unusual facts about South Down


Newry and Mourne District Council

district MLAs = Newry and Armagh & South Down
Sinn Féin: 5
SDLP: 3
DUP: 2
UUP


Eddie McGrady

In Westminster elections he contested South Down unsuccessfully in 1979, 1983 and at the by-election of January 1986, losing on each occasion to Enoch Powell, the sitting MP.

Peter Murnoy

Murnoy was elected to the Parliament of Northern Ireland as the Nationalist Party MP for South Down at the 1945 general election.


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Carthage Street Circuit

The most northern point of the course is located in La Soukra, from where it follows the N10 south down to Sidi Daoud, where a hairpin and a slow chicane leads back to the main straight.

Ebertstraße

As one heads south down Ebertstraße, the Tiergarten, a large forested park, is to one's right, and the new United States Embassy is being built to the left.

Eleonora's Falcon

Traditionally it has been suggested to be coastal, with birds from the western end of the Mediterranean flying to Suez before flying south down the Red Sea, and across the Horn of Africa.

Geology of the Auckland Region

The Waitemata sandstones and mudstones form the cliffs around the Waitemata Harbour and East Coast Bays, and land further north up to Cape Rodney, with outcrops further south down to Mercer and Miranda.

Hoddle Street massacre

Rita received minor wounds and her husband drove on before stopping at a Mobil service station about 150 metres further south down Hoddle Street.

John Small

John Francis Small (1853–1923), Member of the United Kingdom Parliament for County Wexford, 1883–1885 and South Down, 1885–1886

King Expedition of 1817

From Port Jackson, Mermaid sailed south down the east coast, then west through Bass Strait and along the south coast.

Mandatory Iraq

By July 1920, Mosul was in rebellion against British rule, and the insurrection moved south down the Euphrates River valley.

Official Irish Republican Army

However it retained a strong presence in certain localities, notably the Lower Falls, Andersonstown, Turf Lodge and the Markets areas of Belfast, along with a big presence in Derry but particularly Free Derry in the Bogside area as well as Newry and South Down.

People of the Wolf

Spurred by a vision he had while on a hunt, a young tribesman named Runs in Light, later called Wolf Dreamer, leads a handful of tribespeople, in rebellion against the tribal shaman, south down the Yukon River valley into what is now Canada and the Pacific Northwest.

Peter Murnoy

Murnoy was defeated at the South Down Nationalist selection convention before the Northern Ireland general election, 1949, and stood down.

Royal Route, Warsaw

The Royal Route begins at Warsaw's Castle Square and runs south down Krakowskie Przedmieście (Kraków Suburb Street), ulica Nowy Świat (New World Street), Aleje Ujazdowskie (Ujazdów Avenue), ulica Belwederska (Belweder Street) and ulica Sobieskiego (Sobieski Street), finally to arrive at Wilanów (King Jan III Sobieski's personal residence).

South Opuha River

It flows south down a valley between the Two Thumbs Range and the Sherwood Range from its origins northwest of Mount Misery before turning southeast around the southern end of the Sherwood Range to reach the western shore of Opuha Lake, of which it is a major inflow.