Top award for Dalriada festival

GLENARM’S Dalriada Festival has been crowned the friendliest event of the year in a UK-wide outdoor events competition.

The 2011 festival - a celebration of sport, music and fine food - was the only Northern Ireland-based event to scoop an accolade at the prestigious National Outdoor Events Association (NOEA) Awards in Birmingham.

Coast Road Councillor Maureen Morrow congratulated the organisers on the “great achievement”, and her colleague Alderman Roy Beggs said: “We should be proud to be associated with this event. It is good news for the borough and a boost for Northern Ireland as a whole.”