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DAIRY FARM SHOPPING CENTRE IN LINE FOR MAJOR REFURBISHMENT Local development company JP Properties, which owns and operates the Dairy Farm Shopping Centre in west Belfast has unveiled plans for a multi million redevelopment of the site, which will lead to an additional 300 jobs on completion. It is expected that the redevelopment will take [...]
Northern Ireland has received a unique visit by a member of the Saudi royal family. HRH Prince Faisal bin Turki Al-Faisal, grandson of the former Saudi King, visited Belfast to help develop business and academic links between Northern Ireland and Saudi Arabia. During the one-day visit, which was facilitated by Tom Kelly CEO of Stakeholder Communications the Prince met [...]
Following an extensive review of operations to provide enhanced security at the airport and in line with Department for Transport regulations, new arrangements concerning vehicle access to the front of the airport terminal will take effect on Thursday 30 April 2009. The objective for these capital works is to prevent a reoccurrance of a terrorist [...]
Irish companies battling through the current economic doom and gloom will hear how they could be doing business in the heart of the Mediterranean as the island of Malta hold two high-level business breakfasts in Dublin and Belfast on 14 & 15 May. Hosted by Malta’s inward investment agency Malta Enterprise, the events are [...]
Being threatened is not a pleasant experience. I should know. Thanks to my political involvement and a five year stint on the Policing Board I received both verbal and written threats. Sometimes it went further with personal physical assaults and attacks on my home or car. In the main these threats came from members and [...]
The Budget this week may be have been one which delivered harsh news for the majority of the population while to a degree letting Northern Ireland off the hook – for now. But there can be little doubt that while Alastair Darling has taken away with one hand and given with another (robbing Peter to [...]
After a fortnight’s break to recuperate and regroup, it wouldn’t have been unreasonable to hope that the Assembly might return with a zing in its tail. Well you can forget that – Hansard reads more like Eeyore’s ‘Little Book of Gloom’ than the script for ‘Tigger the Movie; a point which an increasing number of MLAs [...]
There has never been a more important time to reinforce the message that people are by far Northern Ireland’s most important resource. That was a message delivered both by Department of Employment and Learning minister Sir Reg Empey and Irish News editor Noel Doran at the launch of the third annual Irish News Workplace & [...]
When the Northern Ireland Policing Board was set up in 2001 there was a palpable sense of change in the air. A new era of policing was about to begin. Being the grandson of an IRA veteran of the War of Independence, I wondered how my grandfather would have reacted to me serving as an [...]
THERE is a farcical element to the furore over the emails sent by former British prime ministerial advisor Damien McBride to another former ministerial advisor, Derek Draper, and it has little to do with the content of the emails. Both men are first-class eejits playing at politics and getting swept away by their inflated sense [...]
NOW that my heart has settled back into my chest from my throat the feel-good factor after Ireland’s historic Grand Slam win will carry me through the Monday morning blues of newspaper columns filled with bleak news about economic downturns, republican dissidents and liberals in search of a new cause. The Saturday match was a [...]
The centenary of work beginning on RMS Titanic has been marked by a symbolic keel laying ceremony hosted by Belfast Titanic Society at Titanic Quarter. John M Andrews, great nephew of Titanic’s Thomas Andrews and president of Belfast Titanic Society, unveiled a memorial plaque on a replica keel plate which has been erected on the [...]
The Quays Shopping Centre in Newry is celebrating after becoming the first Shopping Centre in Northern Ireland to be awarded the prestigious Investors in People (IiP) Accreditation. IiP has long been acknowledged as an important international marque of good business practice. It is a business improvement tool that helps organisations of every size, type and [...]
A number of local suppliers have recently signed a deal with Sainsbury’s that will see their products stocked in all Sainsbury’s stores in Scotland as well as in Northern Ireland. Benefiting from this new deal will be Mash Direct, Tayto, Whites, Largo Foods (Velvet Crunch), Morrow Foods and Punjana. Mash Direct will see their current [...]
The Chairman of the Parades Commission has written to the Secretary of State indicating his intention to step down from his position in the coming months. Roger Poole said today, “My term of office as Chairman of the Parades Commission was originally due to expire in December 2008. At that time I agreed, along with [...]
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