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One of the world’s longest established and most influential travel publications has labeled the Titanic centenary commemorations in Belfast as the “world’s biggest tourism story in 2012”. Fodor’s Ireland 2012 has dedicated an unprecedented eight pages of its guidebook to the Titanic, two of which focus on Titanic Belfast, the world’s largest Titanic exhibition which [...]

Titanic Belfast is asking potential employees if they have the ‘Titanic T-Factor’ necessary to impress visitors when the attraction opens in March.  As part of the recruitment drive for 250 overall positions, a unique ‘T-Factor’ Audition Day is being organised to help track down 70 front line staff who can promote Titanic and Northern Ireland [...]

It is now just 100 days until the official opening of Titanic Belfast, the world’s largest Titanic visitor attraction. Work on the internal fit-out of the iconic six-floor building in Titanic Quarter, Northern Ireland’s largest ever tourism project, is ahead of schedule and will be completed ahead of the official opening on 31st March, 2012. [...]

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 [...]

Titanic Belfast tickets go on sale to the public for the first time today (December 12th) as part of the visitor attraction’s ‘Twelve Titanic Days of Christmas’ campaign. For ‘Twelve Titanic Days’ between now and Christmas Eve, anyone buying Titanic Belfast tickets online will not only receive a 5% discount, but will also be entered into [...]

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 [...]

A globally-renowned travel publication has named Belfast among the world’s top 20 travel destinations for 2012. National Geographic’s ‘Traveler’ magazine included the city in the Top 20 ‘Best of the World’ list in its November edition, describing Belfast as ‘a capital city of Titanic ambition that is redefining itself in the eyes of the world’. [...]

A £50m investment by Belfast Harbour to develop a new terminal for the assembly of offshore wind turbines is providing a major boost for the Northern Ireland construction and aggregate sectors.  The project, the largest ever in the Harbour’s 400-year history, will create 150 construction jobs and generate demand for one million tonnes of stone [...]

A primary school teacher from Ballyclare has been named Belfast Harbour Green Teacher of the Year 2011 at an exciting Challenge Day at W5 attended by The Mayor of Belfast, Councillor Niall Ó Donnghaile. Mr McAllister, from Fairview Primary School, Ballyclare, scooped the top prize in the Northern Ireland-wide search for the primary school teacher who [...]

In advance of a year of commemoration and thanksgiving in Malta, the Hon. Consul for Malta, Tom Kelly, lay a wreath at the Cenotaph in Newry on Remembrance Sunday. Speaking ahead of the event, Mr. Kelly said: “2012 will be an important milestone in the illustrious history of the island as it commemorates the 70th [...]

Hot on the heels of Gok Wan’s clothing debut for Sainsbury’s, the retailer has confirmed the TV personality’s second ‘Gok for TU’ womenswear collection will hit Northern Ireland stores on Thursday 17th November 2011. Launching just six weeks after the first collection, Gok’s second foray looks set to match the success of the first, which saw [...]

Remembrance Sunday always seems to bring into sharp focus the futility of war. When one scans the grainy photographs of the lost generation who fought in the First World War or of those teenagers who don uniforms to fight in places like Afghanistan or Iraq and whose faces are flashed across our screens in full [...]

The Chartered Institute of Marketing last night celebrated the highlight of its centenary year- the 2011 Marketing Excellence Awards Ireland in City Hall, Belfast. The event which attracted more than 400 guests celebrated the remarkable achievements of the marketing profession across the island of Ireland. The big winners on the night were Munster Simms Engineering who [...]

It has taken the SDLP just two years to rectify the mistake of not electing Alasdair McDonnell as it’s Leader. A costly mistake but now ‘Big Al’ steps up to become the fifth leader of the SDLP. It’s a crowning achievement for Mc Donnell who with sheer tenacity and doggedness, in a political world dominated [...]