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Staff from First Trust Bank, accompanied by their trade union representatives from the Irish Bank Officials Association (IBOA), today met the First Minister and Deputy First Minister in Belfast to outline their serious concerns about the potential implications of the proposed sale of the bank by AIB plc. Today’s meeting follows earlier engagements with Finance [...]

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 [...]

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern visited the Bookshop at Queen’s yesterday to sign copies of his long-awaited autobiography. Mr Ahern was in Belfast speaking at a Cooperation Ireland dinner and also received honorary membership of the Queen’s University Fianna Fáil Cumann.
Mr Ahern, who was the first Irish politician to win three elections in a row and helped [...]

So often we are told to look elsewhere to see business success and to understand how things should be done. As these profiles and interviews show, success flourishes right here in Northern Ireland’. That was the message delivered today by BDO Managing Partner Francis Martin at the launch of a document featuring six major Northern [...]

Evolve – Northern Ireland’s new public policy forum got off to a flying start with its first event in the Ulster Hall yesterday. The sell-out event, which including public, private, not-for profit and education sector, heard keynote speaker Jack McConnell deliver an engaging presentation on the experience of devolution in Scotland and how the administration [...]

Speaking today Sir Allen McClay, Chairman of the Almac Group, formally announced the establishment of the McClay Foundation, a charitable trust, one of the first of its kind in Northern Ireland. The Foundation aims to advance the use of diagnostic tools and drugs in the prevention, control and cure of disease; support and encourage research [...]

Almac Diagnostics have partnered with breast cancer researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller (UM) to win a prestigious Department of Defense Synergistic Idea Award, one of just twelve such grants awarded in the United States.
The $725,000 research grant over two years will allow Lisa Baumbach, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics at [...]

 
Sainsbury’s, which opens the doors of its west Belfast store this summer, has today announced that the 250 people currently working in Curley’s will be offered employment with at least an extra 100 people recruited in weeks and months ahead. 
The retailer  has advertised the posts locally and through its own website, and manager Sean Largey [...]