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Newry, Mourne and Down
Who to call and where to check in Newry, Mourne and Down when the power goes off, rivers rise or a storm is coming: official links and figures, each with its source.
If someone’s life is in danger, call 999. For a power cut, call NIE Networks on 03457 643 643. This page lists official sources and figures. It does not say how safe or risky anywhere is.
At a glance
- Type
- Northern Ireland district council
- ONS code
- N09000010
- Area
- 1,682 km²
- Fire and rescue
- Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service
- Police
- Police Service of Northern Ireland
- Emergency planning partnership
- Northern Ireland civil contingencies (The Executive Office)
- Largest settlements
- Newry, Downpatrick, Warrenpoint and Newcastle
Council emergency pages
- Council website newrymournedown.org
- Current emergencies and severe weather Emergencies
Councils announce rest centres, road closures and emergency help on these pages and their social media. Find your council by postcode (GOV.UK).
Power cuts
Report a power cut to NIE Networks on 03457 643 643 or on its website. The free 105 number covers Great Britain only.
Network operator (not your supplier):
- NIE Networks (Northern Ireland)
Flooding
In Northern Ireland the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) leads on flooding. nidirect gives a single number to report flooding: 0300 2000 100.
Flooding: advice and reporting (nidirect) · Rivers and flooding (DfI)
Flood Maps NI is DfI’s interactive map of the latest government flood hazard information. Open the Flood Maps NI viewer and search for a place (pop-ups must be allowed). We have not counted flood areas for Northern Ireland, so no counts are shown.
Weather warnings
The Met Office issues yellow, amber and red warnings for rain, wind, snow, ice, fog, thunderstorms and extreme heat. Current Met Office warnings (choose Northern Ireland on the map) · What the colours mean
Health: NHS help and the nearest A&E
When your GP surgery is closed and you need urgent medical help that cannot wait, nidirect explains how to contact the GP out of hours service for your area. For a life-threatening emergency, call 999.
The nearest emergency departments to the centre of each of the largest built-up areas, by straight-line distance (as the crow flies, not by road):
- Newry: Daisy Hill Hospital (1.1 km); Craigavon Area Hospital (29.0 km); Royal Victoria Hospital (52.6 km). Nearest minor injuries unit or urgent care centre: Lagan Valley Hospital (41.2 km).
- Downpatrick: Ulster Hospital (30.5 km); Royal Victoria Hospital (33.4 km). Nearest minor injuries unit or urgent care centre: Downe Hospital (1.6 km).
- Warrenpoint: Daisy Hill Hospital (11.2 km); Craigavon Area Hospital (38.6 km). Nearest minor injuries unit or urgent care centre: Downe Hospital (44.1 km).
- Newcastle: Daisy Hill Hospital (30.3 km); Craigavon Area Hospital (41.8 km). Nearest minor injuries unit or urgent care centre: Downe Hospital (17.9 km).
For an emergency that is not immediately life-threatening, nidirect says to use the Phone First service in the Northern, Southern and Western Health and Social Care Trusts; see emergency department waiting times (nidirect), which also shows current waits. The Royal Children’s Hospital emergency department, for children, is not counted above.
Never Caught Out is not affiliated with the NHS.
Water supply
Water company for this area:
- NI Water · Current service updates
NI Water’s Waterline: 03457 440088.
To report no water, low pressure or a burst main, use the company’s page above. Your water bill names your supplier.
Local risks and emergency planning
- Coast: about 200 km of the council boundary is shoreline at mean high water, by our measurement (this includes tidal estuaries). Coastal flooding and storm surges are possible; the flood areas above include any coastal ones.
- Northern Ireland does not have local resilience forums or community risk registers like Great Britain’s. The equivalent bodies are Emergency Preparedness Groups; details are available from the Civil Contingencies Policy Branch (The Executive Office). Be ready for emergencies (nidirect)
- Sandbags and flood help: Flooding (the council’s own page; councils differ on whether they supply sandbags, so check what it says).
We list only what official sources say. We do not rate how safe or risky anywhere is.
Map
Phone and broadband coverage
Ofcom’s predictions of normal coverage in Newry, Mourne and Down, January 2026. They are not live outages and not a guarantee for any address.
- Homes and businesses with 4G indoors from all four networks: 67%; from none: 4.5%.
- Outside homes and businesses, 4G from all four networks: 92%; from none: 0.8%.
- Land area with outdoor 4G from all four networks: 81%; from none: 3.3%.
- Premises that can get gigabit-capable broadband: 95%.
- Premises that cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s down, 1 Mbit/s up) from a fixed line or fixed wireless: 132 (0.2%).
Check an address on Ofcom’s coverage checker · Phones when the network is down: how to reach 999 · About this dataset
Local radio
This is the BBC station for the county or area, from the BBC Sounds station list. Coverage overlaps council boundaries, so tune to whichever station you receive.
Census 2021: planning prompts
- Households with no car or van: 14.5%
- Residents aged 65 or over: 16.7%
- Households of one person aged 66 or over: 11.6%
Who would fetch food or medicines for you or a neighbour on icy or flooded roads, and who would you check on in a power cut? Ask your pharmacist about repeat prescriptions before bad weather.
Largest settlements
- Newry
- Downpatrick
- Warrenpoint
- Newcastle
Other built-up areas include Kilkeel and Ballynahinch.
Neighbouring councils
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Lisburn and Castlereagh, Ards and North Down
Guides for any emergency
- Power cut: NIE Networks 03457 643 643. Priority Services Register · Compensation calculator
- Power cuts
- First hour of a power cut
- Flooding
- Flood alerts and warnings
- Storms
- Cold weather
- Grab bag and evacuation
- Emergency Alerts
- A battery or wind-up radio keeps working in a power cut.
- All council pages in Northern Ireland · All UK council pages
How these figures were gathered
- Council links come from GOV.UK Local Links Manager, the list councils keep for GOV.UK. We opened each one on 2 November 2026; links that no longer worked are left out, and a few council sites blocked our automated check, which is noted beside the link.
- Area is our measurement of the ONS generalised (clipped to the coastline) boundary, so it can differ slightly from official area figures.
- Emergency department distances are straight lines from each settlement’s location on OpenStreetMap (found with Nominatim) to the centre of the hospital’s postcode. The list of emergency departments, minor injuries units and urgent care centres is nidirect’s; hospital postcodes are from each health and social care trust’s website, located with postcodes.io. Travel distances and times will be longer.
- Phone and broadband figures are Ofcom’s council-level predictions for January 2026. Mobile coverage uses Ofcom’s signal thresholds; an operator’s network counts if its predicted signal meets them.
- Coastline is our measurement of the ONS boundary clipped to mean high water, where it is not shared with another council. It includes estuary shores, so it is longer than the open coast; we only mention it above 20 km.
- Census figures are planning prompts, not risk scores. The household figure uses 66 and over, as the census tables do.
- Northern Ireland’s Census 2021 figures are from NISRA’s main statistics tables MS-E10, MS-A02 and MS-A26. NISRA adjusts its tables slightly to protect confidentiality, so totals may differ a little between tables.
- Settlements are the largest by usual resident population in NISRA’s 2015 settlement classification (Census 2011 figures).
Official sources we used
- Find your local council (GOV.UK; council links from GOV.UK Local Links Manager) (GOV.UK)
- Map data and tiles (Open Database Licence) (OpenStreetMap contributors)
- Local authority district boundaries and codes (ONS Open Geography Portal)
- Power cuts (NIE Networks)
- Flood Maps NI (Department for Infrastructure)
- Flooding (flooding incident line 0300 2000 100) (nidirect)
- Rivers and flooding (Department for Infrastructure)
- UK weather warnings (Met Office)
- Emergency department waiting times (list of emergency departments, minor injuries units and urgent care centres) (nidirect)
- Hospital address and postcode (Health and social care trust (belfasttrust.hscni.net))
- Hospital address and postcode (Health and social care trust (belfasttrust.hscni.net))
- Hospital address and postcode (Health and social care trust (setrust.hscni.net))
- Hospital address and postcode (Health and social care trust (setrust.hscni.net))
- Hospital address and postcode (Health and social care trust (setrust.hscni.net))
- Hospital address and postcode (Health and social care trust (southerntrust.hscni.net))
- Postcode locations (contains Ordnance Survey, Royal Mail and National Statistics data; Northern Ireland postcodes © Land & Property Services) (postcodes.io)
- Settlement locations (OpenStreetMap data, Open Database Licence) (OpenStreetMap Nominatim)
- GP out of hours service (nidirect)
- NI Water: Current service updates (NI Water)
- Connected Nations update: Spring 2026, mobile and fixed coverage data (Open Government Licence) (Ofcom)
- Stations (local and nations radio) (BBC Sounds)
- BBC Radio Ulster: listen live (BBC Sounds)
- Check the risks where you are (Northern Ireland: Emergency Preparedness Groups) (UK Government (Prepare))
- Be ready for emergencies (nidirect)
- Flooding (Newry, Mourne and Down council)
- Civil contingencies (The Executive Office (Northern Ireland))
- Census 2021 MS-E10: Car or van availability (NISRA)
- Census 2021 MS-A02: Age, five-year age bands (NISRA)
- Census 2021 MS-A26: Household composition (NISRA)
- Settlement 2015 lookup table (NISRA)