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Discussions in the chamber will be dominated today by children and young people with debates on issues including safeguarding and protection tabled by the DUP, and motions on juvenile justice and special needs both laid by SF.
In the committees we have Agriculture tackling the departments review of training and skills, EU CAP consultation and the DARD Direct service. [...]
LAs from all five main political parties in the Assembly recently attended a high-level briefing on the potential for the Natural Gas industry to deliver an ‘economic shot in the arm’ for Northern Ireland.
Industry experts from Phoenix Natural Gas who make gas available to over 265,000 homes and businesses in Greater Belfast, were invited to Stormont [...]
Dr. George Abela will take the oath of Office as President of Malta today at noon in a special sitting of Parliament in the Grand council chamber of the President’s Palace. George Abela will be the eighth President of the Republic of Malta.
At first glance things look quiet at the Assembly today, but we can probably expect a few political fireworks in the UUP-sponsored debate on the review of government departments and MLAs designed to save running costs.
Question time will feature OFMDFM, Agriculture and Culture, Arts & Leisure and the house will also establish a committee to [...]
“For I know all by rote that I tell. My theme is always one, and ever was: Radix malorum est cupiditas”. So says Chaucer’s Pardoner in The Canterbury Tales.
I had a love-hate relationship with Chaucer. The temptation to translate the Latin as “greed/money is the root of all evil” was not enough for my English [...]
The stars of the Hollywood blockbuster ‘Titanic’, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, along with director, James Cameron, are backing a campaign launched in Belfast today to help secure the future of the last living survivor of the Titanic, 97-year-old Millvina Dean.
Launched in the former Harland & Wolff drawing offices in Titanic Quarter where the Titanic [...]
Belfast’s Deep Sea Dockers have launched a series of events to tell the forgotten story of how the city’s Dockers helped build Belfast. The launch at Belfast Harbour Office, which was attended by DRD Minister, Conor Murphy and supported by Belfast Harbour Commissioners, marks the start of celebrations to mark the centenary of the founding [...]
At the weekend Michael Connelly came to town. You may never have heard of him, which means you are not a fan of crime fiction, and US based crime novels in particular. Michael Connelly is the master of the genre, his series of novels depicting the life and times of Harry Bosch set the bar very [...]
THE WEEK THAT WAS….
The editorial team at the Daily Telegraph must be laughing all the way to bank after having the wit to buy the disc of MPs’ expenses for just £70,000. For the price of some maintenance work on one’s moat, a couple of home cinema systems and a nice portico, the Telegraph has [...]
“BT is treating local businesses with contempt,” said Eric Carson, Director of Rainbow Telecom, Northern Ireland’s largest independent telecoms provider.
In response to a BT press statement which claimed that BT Retail can provide a 20 per cent saving to all companies of all sizes in Northern Ireland, Mr Carson said:
“Let’s be extremely clear BT can [...]
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