Welcome to Castlereagh, County Down
Castlereagh is a largely urban area bordering Belfast. Unusually, it has no natural borough centre, largely consisting of a series of suburbs of Belfast in the Castlereagh Hills to the south-east of the City with a small rural area to the South of the Borough. The main centres of population are Carryduff, 9.6 km south of Belfast city centre and Dundonald 8 km east of it. The population totals nearly 66,500.
Castlereagh and the city of Kent in Washington in the United States signed up as sister cities partners on 1 August 2000.
(21 Mar 2010) A group representing many former residents of industrial schools has thanked Pope Benedict for 'his unprecedented apology' to victims of abuse.
(21 Mar 2010) A search has resumed for a young Scottish man missing off the west Cork coast.
(21 Mar 2010) PSNI officers investigating a security alert on a rail line in Co Down came under gun attack last night but managed to escape injury.
(21 Mar 2010) A 21-year-old man has died after a road crash in Co Cork this morning.
From RTÉ News
Castlereagh
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