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THE WEEK THAT WAS…. The saying goes that you ‘can’t see the wood for the trees’. This week’s Forestry Bill set a new adage – ‘you can’t see the Bill for the Amendments’. Granted it’s been several decades since Northern Ireland legislated for its paltry tree cover (we’re one of the least forested regions [...]
Environment Minister Edwin Poots gets a relatively light agenda underway today with the second reading of the Local Government (Finance) Bill, before his counterpart in Agriculture Michelle Gildernew begins the consideration stage for the Forestry Bill and for her encore answers oral questions. Private members business sees a SF motion firing a warning shot across [...]
Until recently the PSNI and the myopic numpties at the Northern Ireland Office have been content to trivialise the daring and growing capacity of Dissident Republicans. Of course, the NIO has form in such matters as it regularly turned a blind eye to UDA and UVF transgressions; treating their thugs and criminals as groups of [...]
OFMDFM oral questions gets things underway at the Assembly but are likely to be overshadowed somewhat by our brand new Justice Minister’s first foray at the dispatch box. Both the Environment & Enterprise Committees will apply for extensions for their homework on the Local Government (Disqualification) (Amendment) Bill and the Debt Relief Bill’s respectively. Delays [...]
THE WEEK THAT WAS…. Such has been the fallout from the Credit Crunch that even a well established name such as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is finding it tough going. This week it emerged that the iconic film studio has accumulated eye watering debts totaling $4bn and that the latest Bond film has been put on the ice. [...]
BDO Managing Partner, Francis Martin, this morning launched a wide-ranging profile of the tourism and hospitality sector in Northern Ireland entitled ‘The Future of Tourism and Hospitality looks like this’. He was joined, for this second publication in the ‘The Future of Business’ series, by Tourism Minister, Arlene Foster, Tourism Ireland CEO, Niall Gibbons, and [...]
Sitting stranded in London with azure skies and a dazzling spring sun overhead, I am somewhat disappointed not to see any of this volcanic ash which has brought the airline industry to its knees. It just goes to prove that try as we may, man will never tame nature. However, the same cannot be said [...]
Commuters arriving at their desks having survived motorway hell will be delighted that traffic kicks off the agenda on Monday morning with a public petition on Camlough Road and Millvale Road Junction, Newry. Health Minister Michael McGimpsey is next at the dispatch box with Oral Questions before Regional Development Minister Conor Murphy takes time out [...]
THE WEEK THAT WAS…. “He shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.” Matthew 25:32 The pall of volcanic ash causing merry havoc with European airspace wasn’t the only biblical portent of doom playing on people’s minds this week. The good folk at DARD were also getting in [...]
Students at Northern Ireland’s newest post-primary school got behind their desks today at the school’s two sites on the Antrim Coast and in Larne. St Killian’s, an all ability school, will cater for 830 pupils, with an admissions number for Year 8 of 140, will operate from the former St MacNissi’s College site at Garron [...]
Little Wing Pizzeria is giving local charities and community groups the opportunity to organise fundraising events during its pre-launch week from Monday 26th April until Friday 30th April. Little Wing, which opened on Ann Street earlier this year, will open its newest Lisburn Road restaurant to the public on Monday 3rd May. The pizzeria will [...]
After all the excitement yesterday Tuesday’s agenda seems somewhat pale by comparison. Executive business kicks off with the Environment Minister bringing the Waste and Contaminated Land (Amendment) Bill before the house for its second stage. Next the Agriculture Minister Michelle Gildernew takes time out from a close Westminster race in Fermanagh & South Tyrone to [...]
Whatever one thinks about elections; this one is going to be different. The seeds for a different election were sown quite a while back. The public’s tolerance for ‘on the make’ politicians finally broke when the extent of political avarice and greed oozed from their greasy palms and spilled onto the headlines. It took many [...]
It’s Justice Day at Stormont! Substantive events kick off with the First & Deputy First Minister proposing a motion establishing the office before the Assembly attempts to fill it with Alliance Leader David Ford expected to step up to the plate. Oral questions for OFMDFM & Environment will be a mere distraction before the business [...]
Belfast Healthy Cities has launched a publication entitled “Healthy Places: Strong Foundations” to mark World Health Day which takes place today. (7th April). Belfast Healthy Cities wants to highlight that Belfast, as a leading WHO European Healthy City, should be asking questions like ‘How does the way we build our environment affect our wellbeing?’ and [...]
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