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Rising tonnages have helped increase turnover at Belfast Harbour according to the Port’s 2010 Annual Report published today.  Trade through Northern Ireland’s largest port has grown for the first time in three years, up 5.4% to 16.4m tonnes. This was reflected in an improved Turnover, up 5% to £34.7m.  Profits Before Taxation stood at £17.4m. [...]

Titanic Quarter has been selected as the flagship location for the first in a series of next generation data centres being built across the UK, Ireland and Caribbean.  The £80m project, being developed by ‘Data City Exchange’ (DCE), is expected to open next year, providing data storage services for a range of high street banks, [...]

It’s strange but Wimbledon brings out my most nationalistic tendencies, as I have to admit to taking great pleasure from the predictable annual defeat of British tennis players. For weeks prior to the strawberries and cream festival we are bombarded with the outlandish claims that this year Murray or prior to him Henman would lift [...]

Historic Crosby Hall was the perfect setting for a Gala Evening in honour of Sir Colin Davis’ outstanding career with the London Symphony Orchestra, a glorious artistic association extending over 50 years. International soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa performed at the celebration, along with LSO Principals and Young Singers from the Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation. [...]

Belfast Harbour and the Titanic Foundation have launched a competition for primary school pupils to create Titanic-themed models out of everyday household items. Up for grabs will be exclusive access to the new Titanic Belfast visitor attraction opening next year. The competition will run during the new term in September, but Teachers of Primary 5, [...]

  Charles Fulton, Chair of CIM Ireland with Sarah Travers, BBC The Time Has Come for Local Businesses to Achieve Marketing Excellence The clock is ticking and it’s time for local companies to start their entries for this year’s Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) Marketing Excellence Awards. The Awards, which are being held on the [...]

South Antrim MLA Danny Kinahan emerged today as victor in the first ever MLA Art competition when his work ‘An attempt at homage to Basil Blackshaw’ was declared overall winner. The painting, made up of four blocks of colour with an etching of Parliament Buildings on each, was judged the best entry from the 44 [...]

Politicians and planners were told today to sit up and take notice of young people’s voices in making decisions about their local environment & communities. The wake-up call came as a result of the ‘Shaping Healthy Neighbourhoods for Children’ project organised by Belfast Healthy Cities. The project asked 9-11 year old children in the Lenadoon [...]

The regeneration and development of the Titanic Quarter have been recognised at the Belfast Business Awards. The Queen’s Island site received an award for Best Regeneration Project at the prestigious gala ceremony in the City Hall in April. The awards were organised by Belfast City Council and Belfast City Centre Management with Victoria Square, the [...]

The untimely death of Brian Lenihan should give us all pause to reflect.  An articulate and urbane politician, Brian was only 52 leaving behind a wife, young children, his siblings and his mother. Parents whose children pre-decease them struggle to cope with a loss, which goes against the supposed natural order of life.  Brian, like [...]

Almost every meal we eat today gets doused in whatever condiment craze is sweeping the nation at the time. At lunchtime your sandwich is no doubt topped with mayonnaise, tomato ketchup, bbq sauce or salsa, if you choose to go to Subway you’ll be faced with a mind-blowing choice of 11 sauces that surely only [...]

Belfast’s most iconic visitor attraction moves closer to completion with the appointment of Chief Executive, Tim Husbands, it was announced today. In his role of Chief Executive Tim will be responsible for the overall operations of the visitor attraction, including banqueting and conferencing facilities, hospitality and ancillary services. ‘Titanic Belfast’, Northern Ireland’s largest ever tourism [...]

In the mid eighteenth century it was not uncommon for children as young as five to be working as chimney sweeps. A generation before then children from working and lower middle classes could have found themselves in compulsory indebentured apprenticeships, some benign, most not. For the first thirty years of the twentieth century children as [...]