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Sainsbury’s is set to invest in excess of £50M in two new stores in Carrickfergus and Derry. The announcement will see the purchase of an existing Co-operative store in Carrickfergus and subject to planning permission, a second Sainsbury’s store in Derry at Crescent Link in the Waterside area of the City.
While exact numbers are not [...]

Almost 40 years since Neil Armstrong took “one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” one-fifth of people in Northern Ireland still rate the moon landing as the most iconic TV moment of all time.*
 
In an online survey commissioned by TV Licensing, 20 per cent of people questioned in Northern Ireland picked the [...]

Sainsbury’s supermarket due to open at the Kennedy Centre in late summer has come on board as one of the lead sponsors and community partner for Feile an Phobail 2009.
 
Sainsbury’s will be involved with a number of key events throughout the Festival which runs from 31st July to 9th August 2009. Sainsbury’s will open the [...]

The Quays Shopping Centre in Newry is going ‘Potter’ mad this weekend to celebrate the launch of the new film ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’.
On Saturday 18th July young Potter fans will get the chance to have a wizard makeover with magic wands, Harry Potter glasses and face painting. Shoppers will also have a [...]

Carrick Student Peter Donoghue impressed judges including Celebrity Chef Jamie Oliver at the UK Finals of Sainsbury’s Active Kids Get Cooking Special Challenge. The 17 year old pupil at Jordanstown Schools for Hearing and Visually Impaired was the only Northern Ireland Winner at the Sainsbury’s event in London. Peter who is visually impaired was tasked [...]

The Chartered Institute of Marketing (Ireland) today launched the first in a series of position papers looking at ways for businesses to use marketing principles to achieve revenue generation in difficult times.
The current business climate has witnessed many companies and organisations cutting back on marketing spend or making redundancies in their sales and marketing department. [...]

The Quays Shopping Centre has a special treat in store for dads on Father’s Day weekend 20th and 21st June with the return of the Dad Zone.
The Dad Zone first appeared at The Quays during the 2006 World Cup and this year it is back bigger and better than ever.
The Dad Zone is dedicated to [...]

Southern Area Hospice Services based in Newry today launched their inaugural conference on palliative care. The Conference ‘Palliative Care- a vision for the future’ will take place on Wednesday 30th September 2009 and is part of the Hospice’s celebration of 20 years of hospice care. The one day event will address the challenges and issues [...]

On Saturday 6th June, Newry born soccer legend, Pat Jennings, will be back on home turf at Newry City football grounds to ‘kick off’’ Parker Green International’s annual cross border soccer tournament. The day event, which is free to attend, will include junior and senior footballers from Newry and Carlow, who live adjacent to Parker [...]

Newry based construction firm O Hare & McGovern has this week announced it is to start work on two ‘Public Private Partnership’ projects with its Facility’s Management Partner Interserve. The contract consists of two projects, the first one consisting of three schools, Our Lady’s and St. Patrick’s Grammar, Knock, St. Joseph’s Primary School, Carryduff and [...]