Lurgan Mail Newspaper Northern Ireland is a tabloid weekly newspaper based in Lurgan, County Armagh in Northern Ireland. It is published on Wednesday evenings, though each edition always bears the Thursday date.and reports not only news in Lurgan, but also in nearby towns such as Waringstown and others in the Craigavon Borough area. It is operated by Johnston Publishing (NI), a holding company of Johnston Press, who own a large number of titles across Ireland and the United Kingdom.