Mid and East Antrim mayoral team's invite to US ‘Friendship City’

By Michelle Weir, Local Democracy Reporter
Published 7th Apr 2023, 19:00 BST
Updated 7th Apr 2023, 19:00 BST
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Mid and East Antrim Borough Council has received an invitation from ‘Friendship City’ in the United States.

The Mayor, Alderman Noel Williams and the Deputy Mayor, Councillor Beth Adger MBE, have been invited to the borough’s ‘Sister City’ in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to attend an outdoor community dinner to mark Portsmouth’s 400th anniversary in August.

A letter to the borough council says: “We will be remembering all of those who made a new life and new opportunities in what came to be called New England. These include dozens of ships filled with emigrants from Ireland and their descendants.

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“We share an official Friendship City bond because of those threads of ancestry and because of our mutual determination to remember those who paved the path we follow.”