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Whilst our leaders are stateside preparing to drown their shamrock in green beer the Finance & Personnel Minister gets Tuesday under way at the dispatch box with oral questions.
Sinn Féin open private members business with a motion calling for greater community involvement in the spending of European funding. The UUP then turns up the heat [...]
‘When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us’ so said Oscar Wilde. Recently, listening to the Prime Minister apologising for the transportation of orphaned children to Australia in the 1940’s and 1950’s one could not help but think what’s the point? Why accept blame for something that [...]
It’s straight into the thick of the action this week with Education oral questions which can often get the political pulses racing. Minister Ruane is always a tough act to follow but this week it falls to her party colleague Michelle Gildernew to bring up the rear with Agriculture questions.
Stormont Watchers can finally stop holding [...]
THE WEEK THAT WAS….
“The warden threw a party in the county jail. The prison band was there and they began to wail. The band was jumpin’ and the joint began to swing. You should’ve heard those knocked out jailbirds sing. Let’s rock, everybody, let’s rock…..”
Despite having more than its fair share of real jaibirds, it’s [...]
Sainsbury’s stores across Northern Ireland have a host of activities planned to try to raise their regional target of £50,000 for Sport Relief.
A number of Sainsbury’s store managers and senior colleagues are getting on their bikes in a similar type of feat to David Willaims and his celebrity friends. They will be cycling almost 300 [...]
The countdown is on for runners of all capabilities to sign up for the new-look 2010 Titanic Quarter 10K – the official warm-up race for the Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon.
Dubbed the ‘City Run with a View’, the event will live up to this title more than ever this year with a new starting point [...]
The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) would like to remind businesses across Northern Ireland that the extended deadline for entry for this year’s awards closes on Friday 19th March 2010. The awards recognise the best in the marketing profession and they are free to enter.
The Awards were launched during Marketing Week back in October 2009. [...]
And so it comes to pass…. our MLAs will at last get their hands on devolved Policing & Justice powers with the OFMDFM motion proposing that ‘certain matters should cease to be reserved’. However Stormont Watchers will have to display a degree of patience as this won’t happen until the Housing Bill reaches its final stage.
To the [...]
So we go again. On Tuesday Northern Ireland will stand at yet another political crossroads. The choices are as clear now as they were to Terence O’ Neill some forty two years ago. Then O’ Neill was facing down what he described as a form of ‘Protestant Sinn Fein’ led by Paisley. Now Paisley’s ‘Protestant [...]
A busy agenda gets underway this week with a clearing of decks motion to neuter some pesky standing orders that may have impacted on Tuesday’s big debate on the devolution of Policing & Justice.
Health Questions are always relatively lively and expect robust exchanges over recent increases of waiting times and budgetary pressures. Fresh from his [...]