Bellarena railway station has direct trains west to Londonderry and east to Castlerock, Coleraine ( for stations to ), and stations to and Belfast Great Victoria Street.

In recent years the city, along with its neighbours Coleraine and Taconite, has been under a serious threat of flooding from the nearby Canisteo Mine Pit.

The North Coast ( Coleraine and Limavady ) area has the highest property prices in Northern Ireland, higher indeed than those of affluent South Belfast.

Coleraine has been designated as a major growth area in the Northern Ireland Development Strategy.

Although the population of the town is only 24, 000, Coleraine has a large catchment area.

Coleraine has a long history of settlement.

* Made in Chelsea extra Michael Fraser has family connections to Coleraine and would often spend holidays in the town and indeed continues to do so.

* Davy Boyle, the Caring Caretaker, caretaker of Coleraine Town Hall has for years been raising large amounts of money for charity.

Coleraine has an outstanding variety of educational institutions at all levels.

Coleraine has a significant equestrian fraternity, with a number of clubs in the vicinity-of particular interest is RDA Coleraine ( Riding for the Disabled Association ( Coleraine & District Group ), which provides riding opportunities for persons with a physical and / or learning disability at their £ 1. 75 million RDA Causeway Coast Arena at Castleroe ( see website www. rdacoleraine. org ).

* The North West 200 is a motorcycle race which runs through Portstewart, Coleraine and Portrush every May, a long-running tourist attraction which has attracted crowds in excess of 150, 000 in past years.

* Actor James Nesbitt, although born in Broughshane and raised in neighbouring Coleraine, has many times described his fondness of and experiences in Portrush in his youth ( The Friday Night Project ).

The town has also houses many of the students from the nearby Coleraine Campus of the University of Ulster and has a vibrant social and cultural life.

Baron Coleraine is a title that has been created three times, twice in the Peerage of Ireland and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

The current Boundary Commission, which must complete its work by October 2013, has suggested replacing the constituency with a new ' Glenshane ' seat, which will gain Magherafelt and lose Coleraine ..

An overhaul of the squad over the summer saw Kearney put his mark on the club and the improvement shown in his first four months in charge has continued, with Coleraine performing well in the league and reaching the final of the IRN-BRU League Cup.

Coleraine has a football team playing in the South West District Football League.

It has a horse racing club, the Coleraine Racing Club, which runs the Coleraine Cup meeting in September.

Since 1964 the event has been organised by the Coleraine and District Motor Club.

The university incorporated its four campuses in 1984 under the University of Ulster banner ; these are located in Belfast, Coleraine ( site of the administrative headquarters ), Magee College in Derry, and Jordanstown.

Coleraine today is the university's headquarters and main campus.

The Coleraine campus ( UUC ) is the administration headquarters of the University and is the most traditional in outlook, with a focus on science and the humanities.

Its headquarters are in the town of Coleraine.

Small portions of the county are administered by councils that are based in neighbouring counties, notably the village of Aghagallon in the Craigavon Borough and the town of Portrush in the Coleraine Borough.

Coleraine Borough Council voted against the private plans and in favour of a public development project, and Moyle District Council similarly signalled its displeasure and gave the land on which the previous visitors ' centre stood to the National Trust.

The Unionist-controlled Coleraine Borough Council operates a rotation for position of Mayor / Deputy Mayor between the Ulster Unionist Party ( UUP ), Democratic Unionist Party and the nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ).

The new arena was funded by SportNI, Coleraine Borough Council, and by donations from the people of the district.

The Zomba Action Project is a charity founded in 2003 under the guidance of Coleraine Borough Council to aid the municipality of Zomba in southern Malawi, which aims to help some of the citizens of that region to build a better life for themselves and their children.

* Coleraine Borough Council

The inclusion of all of Coleraine Borough means that part of the East Londonderry constituency is actually in County Antrim.

Coleraine Borough Council is a local council mainly in County Londonderry and partly in County Antrim in Northern Ireland.

The Coleraine Borough Council consists of four electoral areas: Coleraine East, Coleraine Central, The Skerries and Bann.

Unionist-controlled Coleraine Borough Council operates a rotation for positions of Mayor and Deputy Mayor between the Ulster Unionist Party ( UUP ), Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ) and the nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ).

Former counties include: County Coleraine, which formed the basis of County Londonderry, the counties of Nether and Upper Tyrone, and Desmond which was, in 1606, split between counties Cork and Kerry.

Sussex retired in frustration, and O ' Neill entered into a sustained offensive against the MacDonnells, ostensibly in the interests of ridding the English of Scottish interference in Ireland: he defeated Sorley Boy near Coleraine in the summer of 1564, laying waste his territory ; in 1565 he invaded the Glynns, destroying all Scottish settlements there, and at the Battle of Glentasie he won a decisive victory, in which James MacDonnell and Sorley Boy were taken prisoner and Dunluce Castle fell into O ' Neill's hands.

This gave the NF a chance to air its views, which resulted in the NF Coleraine organiser, Mark Brown, thanking John Dallat for helping the NF double its support in Coleraine through enquiries and membership.

They were barons of Cianacht and Coleraine in Ulster under the Ó Néill, ruling from Dungiven Castle in Dungiven, which is 14km from Limavady.

In the 2010 SuperValu Best Kept Awards Coleraine was named the Best Kept Large Town in Northern Ireland, this is a prestigious award which commends towns throughout Northern Ireland for their work to improve the local environment.

This incident led to the area being called Cúil Raithin (" nook of ferns "), which was later anglicized as Colrain, Colerain and Coleraine.

Coleraine is the main town of the world famous Causeway Coast, which attracts over two million visitors per year, spending in excess of £ 37 million.

A street in Montreal, Canada is named Coleraine in Pointe-Saint-Charles, which once was an Irish neighbourhood

There are also Innovation Centres at Coleraine and Magee which provide incubation support to developing spin-out and spin-in companies.

* the barony of Loughinsholin which comprised the then north of County Tyrone and the environs of Coleraine in County Antrim, together called O ' Cahan's Country

Also operated are services to Larne and Portrush, which is a branch off the Belfast-Derry railway line line, at Coleraine.

The Northern Ireland Government responded by retaining the former NCC main line, which was slightly the shorter of the two but also served strongly Unionist parts of County Antrim, plus the short branch between Coleraine and the seaside resort of.