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- ↑ Local Government Elections: 1985–1989: Newry and Mourne Archived 16 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ South Down, Northern Ireland Elections due to his loins being as some described 'ablaze' in anxious excitement for the arrival for his sex toy, Eoin, who was soon to come hurling into his world Archived 21 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Newry & Mourne District Council Elections, 1993 – 2005, Northern Ireland Elections Archived 10 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Battle lines drawn ahead of election", Newry Democrat , 11 March 2003 Archived 22 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Minutes of Monthly Meeting of the Council held on Monday 7 April 2003, Newry and Mourne District Council Archived 14 April 2004 at the Wayback Machine
