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Ciara Mageean death
Ciara Mageean has died at 34 at 6.30am surrounded by her loved ones, after winning the 1,500 metres title at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome.
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Portaferry is a village in County Down, Northern Ireland, at the southern end of the Ards Peninsula, near the Narrows at the entrance to Strangford Lough. It is home to the Exploris aquarium and is well known for the annual Gala Week Float Parade. It hosts its own small Marina, the Portaferry Marina. The Portaferry–Strangford ferry service operates daily at 30-minute intervals between the villages of Portaferry and Strangford, less than 1.5 km apart, conveying about 500,000 passengers per annum. Portaferry had a population of 2,372 people in the 2021 census. The village is in the Barony of Ards Upper.
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