Antrim

Din O’Saurs discovered! Ireland’s first dinosaur fossils are identified in County Antrim

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It’s an Irish discovery 200million years in the making – for the first time ever, dinosaur bones have been identified on the island. Fossil bones from a four-legged plant-eating scelidosaurus and a deadly two-legged carnivore sarcosaurus were found in Islandmagee, on the coast of County Antrim. The remains were originally discovered by school teacher and … Read more

Din O’Saurs discovered! Ireland’s first dinosaur fossils are found in County Antrim

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Din O’Saurs discovered! Ireland’s first dinosaur fossils from 200m-year-old beasts are found in County Antrim Fossil bones are from a four-legged plant-eating scelidosaurus in Antrim  Another dinosaur – a deadly two-legged carnivore sarcosaurus also found  Late teacher and fossil collector Roger Byrne found the bones years ago They were confirmed as being from the dinosaurs … Read more

Mother, 18, from Co Antrim took her own life weeks after the birth of her youngest son

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A mother-of-two with postnatal depression took her own life weeks after the birth of her son, her family has revealed.  Shaciara McDowell, 18, of Ballymena, in Co Antrim, died on September 7, just four weeks after the birth of her son Cáhir.  Her sister Vanessa McDowell, 27, shared the news of her death as she urged … Read more