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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
THE WEEK THAT WAS…. Given the comparisons between Northern Ireland and South Africa (take your pick as to which tribe here best represents the Afrikaners or ANC) it was surprising no-one thought to shoe-horn in a Belfast trip for President Jacob Zuma as part of his UK state visit. Leaving aside the commonality of trying [...]
Northern Ireland’s Further Education colleges, providing higher education, are participating in a masterclass on how to develop effective and sustainable partnerships with employers during a week-long series of seminars launched in Belfast today by fdf (Foundation Degree Forward). Vice Principals, Deans, Heads of School and Business Development Managers will be amongst the regional college staff [...]
The Minister for Finance & Personnel’s day gets off to busy start with as he shepherds three separate pieces of legislation through the house. In all likelihood the Budget Bill will complete its journey before the Rates (Exemption for Automatic Telling Machines in Rural Areas) Order (Northern Ireland) 2010 is affirmed and the Draft Rates [...]
So the last of the SDLP lions, Eddie Mc Grady has decided to call it a day. The announcement is not as surprising as some commentators make out. Mr Mc Grady has been an elected representative since 1961 and to put that in context; President Kennedy was still alive; man had not reached the moon; [...]
Legislation tries to banish the Monday morning blues at the Assembly with the Housing (Amendment) Bill and Budget Bills both reaching further consideration stage before the likely affirmation of the Land Registry (Fees) Order (Northern Ireland) 2010. OFMDFM questions will attract their usual attention before Environment Minister Edwin Poots provides the encore at the dispatch [...]
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