Stakeholder

Every Saturday morning as I convert the family car into a taxi and begin a marathon round of kids drops offs and pick ups, I tune into Radio 5 Live and I have the hilarious Danny Baker for company. This Saturday as post office party eh, dehydration, was also on the cards, Danny let us [...]

Deborah King, a Client Manager in Stakeholder Communications was recognised last week at the annual Northern Ireland Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) awards when she received the “Outstanding Young Communicator” award.  Deborah has been working with Stakeholder for 6 years, between the company’s Belfast headquarters and the local Newry office. Recently appointed as Vice [...]

Sainsbury’s Chief Executive Justin King visits Northern Ireland to make jobs announcement   250 jobs to be created through the opening of Bangor store First Minister Peter Robinson taken on a tour of the Holywood Exchange store Sainsbury’s Chief Executive Justin King arrived in Northern Ireland today as the retailer announced the creation of 250 [...]

Published, Irish News 16 August It seems that like the weather, the news just keeps getting worse. There is certainly no sign of an Indian summer and no immediate let up in the economic climate and as for the thugs who went on the rampage in England last week, the only good thing was that [...]

Until last summer meetings between our two counties were something of a rarity. Opening round championship defeats to Louth and Tyrone meant that Kildare and Antrim respectively were in the qualifier hat for the first round and we were paired together on Saturday 26th June. That match was played in the shadow of the funeral [...]

There has been a lot of commentary during the last few weeks about if and when the Northern Ireland Executive will agree a budget to present to the Assembly before Christmas. Apparently some of our politicians and commentators are vexed that this region is the last in the UK to agree a draft budget.  We [...]

The Irish News, 11 October2010 The Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce launched its policy document, Enabling Economic Excellence on Friday with Jim Fitzpatrick, normally a political correspondent, acting as the host. In a remark probably designed as a throwaway Jim told the packed Long Gallery in Stormont that every question he asks these days, every [...]

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 [...]

Tomorrow, in Camlough, Stakeholder will be well represented in the Crooked Lake Triathlon, with one employee (this author) attempting the whole shebang, another (Deborah) doing the glory leg of the relay (the 5k run), one former employee (Pat McP) with his swimming hat in the ring (and fancy dan wet suit, new bike and running [...]

Last Thursday I went along to vote in south Belfast, Harberton school polling station. My name was marked as already having voted, a simple mistake I assumed. After a lengthy period of confusion (during which I imagine the staff were quietly wishing I would go away) I was given a pink ballot to mark my [...]

The first hung parliament in the UK in 36 years opened up the possibility of Northern Ireland MPs having a major say in the formation of the next Government. At the time of writing that scenario is receding as the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats seem to be on the cusp of agreeing either a formal [...]