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THE WEEK THAT WAS Poor Gordon Brown. That’s not a phrase you hear too often, but compared to ‘Teflon Tone’ he really is the ‘Velcro PM’. When you’re down, you’re down, and everything which can go wrong, does go wrong; sticking to him with a suffocating voracity which is snuffing out the life of his [...]
Direct ocean freight services between the island of Ireland and North America are expected to start next month. The service, which will operate between Belfast Harbour, Montreal and Baltimore, is being planned by US-based firm, Trans Atlantic Liner Services (TALS). At present all ship-bound exports to North America are first trans-shipped to larger GB and northern [...]
A major new public artwork by artist Tony Stallard has been launched at Titanic Quarter, as part of Belfast Festival at Queen’s. The high profile contemporary and innovative artwork which is called ‘Kit’ is situated in the public realm area facing the Abercorn Basin and beside the Abercorn Residential Complex (ARC), the first phase of [...]
THE bright new face of the Ulster Conservatives and Unionists – New Force appears unsurprisingly somewhat familiar judging from the greying faces of the Ulster Unionist Party. The tortuous selection process adopted means that both Northern Ireland Tories and the Ulster Unionists will respectively choose candidates in each constituency – and then, by a process [...]
Shoppers at Junction One International Outlet Shopping Centre can enjoy Northern Ireland’s freshest food offering with the opening of the first ever ‘We Make’ restaurant, the new venture from Mount Charles, Northern Ireland’s leading local catering company. The ‘We Make’ brand opened recently in the Antrim shopping complex and will create up to 25 full [...]
The Galbraith Lecture which is the keynote event in the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s annual Marketing Week provided guests with many thought-provoking words of wisdom. Renowned Marketer Charles Nixon MBA FCIM FCAM FRSA was the keynote speaker at the event which took place in the Ulster Hall on Wednesday 21st October 2009. Charles Nixon is [...]
Chamber President Highlights Importance of Upskilling at Symposium Launch Bro McFerran CBE, President of the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce, today launched the ‘The Improvement Agenda-International Symposium for Learning and Skills’. Organised by the Learning and Skills Development Agency the 2010 event will focus on examining ways to improve learning and skills in Northern Ireland. [...]
THE WEEK THAT WAS Graucho Marx once quipped: “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others” while Alfred Adler, a student of Sigmund Freud, summed up much of the human condition with “It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them”. The ongoing debacle [...]
You can nearly imagine it. Julie Andrews on the front steps of Parliament Buildings belting out that old favourite: ‘Swags for my curtains and art for the walls Bright coloured coffee pots and chaise long for my halls Expensive brown envelopes tied up with string These are a few of my favourite things. Cowboys and [...]
With all the excitement of the US visit dying down matters in the chamber return to their normal routine with another absence of executive business flowing through. OFMDFM and Regional Development form the basis of question time before the assembly rubber stamps the work of the Committee on Procedures and debates a Employment and Learning [...]
I was at the Conservative Party conference last week – the first I have attended in 10 years – but don’t worry, I did not sign up. Though my political enemies would probably regard me as a ‘green Tory’. Party conferences of the opposition are not terribly interesting. Frankly, where there is no power, there [...]
A light agenda in the chamber for Stormont watchers today. The Rates (Amendment) Bill reaches its final stage and the restructuring in the Education sector will received detailed attention. It is Social Development’s turn for oral questions where Minister Ritchie will face questions on the Royal Exchange Development, social housing and a shared future among [...]
The Assembly gets a star-spangled sprinkling of international quality when US Secretary of State Senator Hilary Clinton addresses the chamber. Whilst on her visit to Belfast the former First Lady will hold meetings with the First and Deputy First Minister in the hope it accelerates the devolution of policing and justice. For anyone interested there [...]
Stakeholder Communications, the Northern Ireland-headquartered public relations company, has announced details of an expansion into Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The company, which already has offices in Belfast, London, Dublin and Newry, is joining forces with Saudi PR firm ‘F&F Public Relations’ which is co-founded by a member of the Saudi Royal [...]
Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Chairman of the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, today highlighted how poor health and health inequalities are primarily the result of social inequalities. The internationally acclaimed academic was speaking at a lecture entitled ‘Closing the Gap in a Generation: A new global and local agenda for health equity’ [...]
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