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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 is [...]
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 others. In [...]
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 will [...]
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 Family, [...]
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’ [...]
THE WEEK THAT WAS….
After two weeks of soaking up the sun in the Med it’s nice to come home and find that the Northern Ireland Assembly is reassuringly consistent. The debates are still as tedious as they were last session, Question Time has as much punch as a Punch & Judy show which has undergone [...]
Northern Ireland Shadow Secretary of State, Owen Paterson MP, with Northern Ireland Independent Retail Trade Association (NIIRTA) Chief Executive, Glyn Roberts, and Stakeholder Communications Chief Executive, Tom Kelly, at the Northern Ireland Reception at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester
After a rerun, the Republic – like the ‘man from Del Monte’ – has said a resounding Yes to the Lisbon Treaty. It’s one of those rare moments when one’s faith in human nature is justified.
The rag-tag bunch of ultra-right-wing misfits, Catholic reactionaries, loony left malcontents and foreign-inspired business interests – who grossly misled the [...]
A delegation of European health experts received an official welcome to Belfast this week. Delegates from Sweden, the UK, Italy and Romania joined officials from Belfast Healthy Cities and the City Council on a two-day study visit examining healthy urban planning and the impact public policy has on the health of a region.
Belfast is one [...]
The Learning and Skills Development Agency NI (LSDA NI) has launched a new booklet advising further education colleges throughout the UK on how to manage communications effectively during a college merger process.
‘Meeting the Communication Challenge During College Merger’ has been written by LSDA NI associate Robert Conlon, who used the Northern Ireland experience of the [...]
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