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After months of useless debates the Labour Leadership campaign is over. Despite the protestations of brotherly love one suspects that David Miliband is a shattered man this morning. The long suspected successor of ‘Project Blair’, he tripped up in the final moments of the leadership race as Ed scraped home by the narrowest of margins. [...]
OFMDFM oral questions gets matters underway on the hill today, followed at the Dispatch box by Regional Development. Next up extensions to Committee Stages for Tourism (Amendment) Bill and the Transport Bill will go through on the nod before new MLA Paul Givan is added to the Assembly & Executive Review Committee. A joint DUP [...]
The Quays Shopping Centre in Newry is preparing for the fashion event of the year from Friday 1st October to Sunday 3rd. For the very first time the popular style show will take place over three days and will offer a fashion and beauty fix for the whole family. As part of the event The [...]
Local company Linwoods and National Museums NI are today the toast of the marketing world, picking up two awards each as well as two highly commended for Linwoods at the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) BRAND New 2010 Conference and Awards. The highly coveted awards celebrate the best marketing companies, campaigns and individuals across the [...]
Fifty years ago this week, my grandfather and namesake was in his third year as Chairman of Newry Urban District Council. A quiet, dignified and unassuming man he was heading to Croke Park to watch the 1960 All- Ireland Final between Kerry and Down. Not bothered about the limelight or status he struck a deal [...]
Michael McGimpsey gets matters underway at the Assembly with Health oral questions before being followed by David Ford at Justice. The same two Ministers may well be back in the house to respond to debates with a SF motion on outstanding medical negligence cases and a UUP call to raise awareness of human trafficking. The [...]
Environment & Finance Oral Questions get things underway on the hill this week. Despite the summer break it looks like a blanket extension on project work with committees asking the speaker for extensions on their homework including the Student Loans (Amendment) Bill, Employment (No.2) Bill, Welfare of Animals Bill, Housing (Amendment) (No.2), Energy Bill, and [...]
With just over a month to go before entries close, primary school pupils from across Northern Ireland are being urged to nominate their teacher for the Belfast Harbour Green Teacher of the Year 2010 Award. Organised by Belfast Harbour and Action Renewables, the unique competition aims to reward primary school teachers for showing leadership and [...]
THE WEEK THAT WAS…. The upcoming UUP leadership election has been even less exciting than the Labour Party’s long running navel gazing exercise. If only Basil McCrea or Tom Elliott had had a politically motivated sibling it could have been on so different, well, alright, slightly different. The party which once could reliably run Northern [...]
The recession may be continuing to bite but you wouldn’t have thought so on Wednesday morning in Newry as over 700 Down GAA fans and a couple of pretenders packed into the Canal Court Hotel to catch a glimpse of their all Ireland hopefuls. When I say pretenders I effectively mean me. Coming from a [...]
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BRAND New 2010 is fast approaching and the Chartered Institute of Marketing is putting the final plans in place for this highly anticipated conference. Invest Northern Ireland’s, Dr. Vicky Kell, Director of Trade is one of the dynamic range of speakers at the event. She will be focussing on the importance of getting your marketing [...]
The first All Ireland final I was ever at was in 1976, aged 8. About the match I remember barely a thing, about the day I recall a lot of details. For the record Dublin beat Kerry and it marked the start of the greatest period of football rivalry ever witnessed. Tom Humphries captured the period beatifully [...]
In the week which saw the anniversary of 9/11 the world was reminded once again of man’s capacity for evil. This capacity for evil never ceases to shock; whether it was the conquistadors treatment of the Aztecs, the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot; the Catholic Inquisition, the French Terror; Nazi concentration camps or Siberian Stalags- [...]
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