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Town of Portrush

Sunset in Portrush townPortrush (Port Rois in Irish) is a town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, beside the border with County Londonderry. Rois is the Irish word for headland and the main part of the old town, including the railway station, most hotels, restaurants and bars, is built on a peninsula pointing north-northwest. It had a population of 6,372 people in the 2001 Census. In the off-season, Portrush is a dormitory town for the nearby campus of the University of Ulster at Coleraine.

It is the base for the Katie Hannon, a Severn class lifeboat and Ken and Mary, a D class inshore lifeboat of the RNLI. Lifeboats have operated out of Portrush Harbour since 1860.

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Posted on March 13th, 2008 under Towns. Tags: , , , , , , . Comments: 1

Town of Belfast

Belfast(B�l Feirste in Irish) is a city in the United Kingdom. It is the largest city in Northern Ireland (of which it is the capital) and the province of Ulster, and is the second largest city in the island of Ireland. In the 2001 Census the population within the city limits (Belfast Urban Area) was 276,459, while c.800,000 people live in the Greater Belfast area or Belfast Metropolitan Urban Area. The city is situated at the south-western end of Belfast Lough, a long natural inlet ideal for the shipping trade that made the city famous, and near the mouth of the River Lagan. It is flanked by long stretches of hills, the Holywood Hills on the south and the Antrim Hills on the north. The city straddles the County Antrim and County Down boundary. The city recently gained the status of being the 2nd most popular city in the UK, above London and Glasgow, for short breaks.

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Posted on March 13th, 2008 under Towns. Tags: , , , , , , . Comments: 5