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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
As Sainsbury’s enjoy a busy Balmoral Show this week it has been revealed that since the supermarket announced last year that all fresh beef and lamb sold in Northern Ireland stores would be sourced locally, sales of those products have risen by 20%. Sainsbury’s Head of Sustainability, Agriculture and Health Annie Graham said the decision [...]
Hospice Services are the latest group of organisations to be affected by the current recession. With the local Southern Area Hospice Service relying on over 70% of the annual running costs coming from charitable donations they have been looking at ways of surviving without impacting on services. A recent survey conducted by UK wide organisation [...]
A reasonably quiet day at Stormont today with the domination of private members debates highlighting the lack of legislation passing before the house. The SDLP have a motion calling for the establishing of an Ad hoc committee to tackle the economic downturn and are likely to use the debate to give their shadow economic policy [...]
NO doubt this morning members of parliament and the legislative assemblies are quaking in their boots at the prospect of their lavish and quirky expense claims being revealed to a hard-pressed recession-suffering public. The recent revelations by The Daily Telegraph have the unfortunate outcome of making all politicians, no matter how squeaky-clean, look like [...]
THE WEEK THAT WAS…. If television programme commissioners can’t find enough reality shows to pad out the schedule, the next best thing is buy in a US import, preferable something formulaic like ‘CSI’ which seems to have a series franchised out to every major US metropolis from New York to Las Vegas, clocking up [...]
Sainsbury’s, which opens the doors of its west Belfast store this summer, has today announced that the 250 people currently working in Curley’s will be offered employment with at least an extra 100 people recruited in weeks and months ahead. The retailer has advertised the posts locally and through its own website, and manager [...]
As a participant of the Spencer Tunick Installation I can’t help but feel a little ripped of by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority . The event took place at the South Wall in the Dublin Docklands in the early hours of Saturday, June 21 2008. The follow-up thank you email arrived 6 weeks later, but participants still [...]
JUDGES can find themselves in compromising positions – sometimes the kind of positions that would make an exponent of the Karma Sutra blush. Others find that a stint on the ‘Bench’ morphs them into a character more like Judge Judy than a crusading Justice John Deed. Most rather boringly are left to interpret the law with [...]
Today will probably attract much of the media attention with oral questions to OFMDFM and Environment Minister Sammy Wilson. This afternoon’s debate on the plight of the now largely compensated Visteon workers is a demonstration of how the clunking machinery on the hill can struggle to keep pace with a rapidly shifting political context. Tuesday [...]
Last night the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival kicked off in fine style, in truth Belfast revellers were spoilt for choice. Lloyd Cole brought his solo acoustic tour to the Black theatre; as a fan called out at the end of the seminal Are You Ready to be Heartbroken?, Lloyd Cole is indeed a legend. [...]
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