The end of Portadownnews.com After four and a half years of its (sometimes) weekly web edition, the always hilarious Portadown News has been decommissioned (the editor has got a better job). Always taking an impartially scathing view of the goings-on in Northern Ireland, the News' editor Newton Emerson left behind his cracking satires of Ian Paisley, St Patricks Day, Gerry Adams and his "distant" links to terrorism, police inaction, and factional infighting. You might not get all the jokes, but it helped us have a good laugh at how ridiculous this place is.