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Legislation is like London buses, you hang around on Monday with no sign of it and two turn up on a Tuesday looking at Rates and Water Charges. Enterprise questions will see Minister Arlene Foster look at renewable energy targets and unemployment levels among others. The Public Accounts Committee presents its homework to be signed [...]
Nineteen-eighty-one was a seminal year. It didn’t just radicalise northern nationalism – it radicalised much more.
I was in lower sixth preparing for summer exams and my family, like many others, were worried about keeping teenagers out of trouble and ‘The Troubles’.
Most succeeded.
It’s funny the things we remember from that year but Newpoint Players had a [...]
In the absence of Executive business Education questions will form the first of this week’s action in the chamber. On the face of it the questions belay a mature exchange with little opportunity for ill-tempered spats although the folks on the hill rarely disappoint when Minister Ruane takes the floor.
She will be followed at [...]
Almac, one of Northern Ireland’s leading businesses, has secured planning permission for major expansion plans that could potentially see the company create over 500 jobs during the next five years.
The global company which provides integrated research, development and manufacturing services to pharmaceutical and biotech companies internationally, has experienced a substantial rate of growth at its [...]
Belfast Harbour has completed a £3.2m upgrade to two of the port’s busiest roads, thus improving access for almost two million hauliers and ferry passengers who use the routes annually. The works on a two-kilometre stretch of Dargan Road and Westbank Road mean that the Harbour’s main ferry and container facilities, including the new Stena [...]
Water charges are the only legislative focus in the chamber today with a piece of temporary enabling legislation getting a brief first reading. Oral questions will be fielded by OFMDFM and Agriculture. There will be a predictably fiery debate on the funding of sports clubs tabled by the UUP. Clearly aimed at the Gaelic Athletic [...]
What’s the world coming to? DUP member gives approval for PSNI to train Libyan police; DUP minister says “whoever made the decision is living on another planet”.
Catholic Church leaders say laity needs increased role in the Church; Catholic bishop says volunteer school governors can serve only if they agree with infallibility of the hierarchy.
The SDLP [...]
Almac and Lilly UK have entered into a partnership to develop a companion diagnostic for ALIMTA, with cisplatin, as a combination therapy for non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer.
The study focuses on evaluating Thymidylate Synthase (TS) as a predictive marker of response to Alimta in combination with cisplatin. A number of parallel exploratory analyses will be [...]
Titanic Quarter Chief Executive Mike Smith hosts United States Ambassador to the UK, Ambassador Louis B. Susman, and the US Government’s new Economic Envoy to Northern Ireland, Declan Kelly, on a tour of Belfast’s Titanic Quarter. The tour was the first stop of a two-day visit to Northern Ireland for Ambassador Susman and Mr Kelly [...]
In their first week proper of the new term MLAs are still enjoying a relatively light legislative agenda, with only a Forestry Bill to mull over. The Minister for Social Development is in demand with two appearances, firstly for oral questions and then a debate tabled by Sinn Féin on the payment of home improvement grants. Events of the day are concluded with an adjournment debate [...]
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