Estate gives its verdict on BBC documentary
AN uneasy air hung over the Ballysally estate in Coleraine yesterday in the raw aftermath of BBC documentary The Estate.Ballysally, which has twice the national average of people on unemployment...
View ArticleWe won’t give up terror tapes, say researchers
RESEARCHERS behind the Boston College oral history project on the Troubles have again vowed to resist the surrender of tapes to police investigators.The latest show of defiance comes following a...
View ArticleKiller infection found in taps at baby ward
A KILLER infection that claimed the lives of three babies in a Belfast hospital has been traced to taps in the neo-natal unit, the Health Minister has said.All the taps and connected pipe work in the...
View ArticleTories planning Ulster re-launch
THE Conservative Party is planning to re-launch itself as an independent entity in Northern Ireland by the beginning of April.It is understood that initial plans for a new Conservative Party in the...
View ArticleParties ‘working together on Westminster matters’
DUP and Ulster Unionist members are also working together at Westminster, Lagan Valley MP Jeffrey Donaldson said last night.The DUP MP said that he and former Ulster Unionist leader Lord Empey were...
View ArticleIf parties do unite, they need to do it soon
FROM listening to Tom Elliott’s speech at his party conference just three months ago, you would have struggled to find clues that he was exploring a closer relationship with the DUP.The Ulster Unionist...
View ArticleUUP meeting after claim of secret DUP talks
SPECULATION is mounting around what was discussed during high level meetings between the DUP and the Ulster Unionists – talks which were kept secret from most UUP MLAs who yesterday called an emergency...
View ArticleNR GREER: Capitalist activism is the way to go
CAPITALISM has been back in the dock recently with all the national party leaders making calls for those nasty wealth-creating employers to have a cuddly make over. Red Ed Miliband kicked it off with...
View ArticleNI construction bears brunt of a ‘lost decade’
A FURTHER 45,000 jobs will be lost in the UK construction industry this year as economic uncertainty continues, signalling a “lost decade” for the sector, a new report predicts today.Nationally, output...
View ArticleWilson welcomes support for rates bill
FINANCE Minister, Sammy Wilson yesterday welcomed the support of Assembly colleagues for his controversial Rates Bill he said would share £6 million across more than 8,000 small businesses.The amended...
View ArticleInvest NI chief vows renewed export drive
MISSIONS to China to promote the hospitality industry, Marseille to sell cruise ship furnishings and India in support of the materials handling sector are some of the ways Northern Ireland business...
View Article70 years on, remembering when the Yanks arrived
Thursday marks the 70th anniversary of the arrival of 4,000 US infantrymen in Belfast. Local historian Gordon Lucy examines their impact on Ulster lifeON December 7, 1941, ‘a date which will live in...
View ArticleUniversity to honour golf champ Rory
US OPEN golf champion Rory McIlroy is to receive an honorary degree from the University of Ulster.Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody and Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson will also receive...
View ArticleCycling politicians face panel of pupil judges
NORMALLY it is the adults who test and assess the children.But yesterday a group of school pupils were the ones handing out the marks – and not merely to adults, but to a group of powerful Stormont...
View ArticleSchool’s 120-year-old piano to hit high notes
A SCHOOL in Co Antrim is preparing to bid a sad farewell to a grand piano thought to be around 120 years old.Prospective buyers attended Dalriada School in Ballymoney yesterday afternoon to view and...
View ArticleRetirement service for Dr Paisley
A special farewell service will be held in the Martyrs Memorial Free Presbyterian Church on the Ravenhill Road in Belfast tomorrow night to mark the retirement of the Rev Dr Ian Paisley (Lord...
View ArticleSon issues fresh plea on father’s murder 11 years on
THE son of murdered Coleraine pensioner Norman Moffatt has issued a fresh appeal for information on the 11th anniversary of his death.The 73-year-old left his Circular Road home at 6.30am on January...
View ArticleDrive to reduce farm tragedies
SAFETY experts will visit farms across Northern Ireland in an effort to reduce the number of accidents after an alarming number of tragic deaths last year.In each month of 2011, a farmer or worker was...
View ArticleTransferred babies to be tested for killer bug
All babies transferred to other units from two hospitals in Northern Ireland where four infants died are to be screened for the killer infection, public health authorities said.Neo-natal rooms across...
View ArticleSmithwick Tribunal: Smuggling claims ‘were exaggerated’
AN Army colonel “exaggerated” the scale of smuggling in south Armagh to the Secretary of State in 1989, resulting in an operation which cost the lives of two senior RUC officers then tasked to deal...
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