Launch of aerospace initiative welcomed
A NEW £6 million bursary fund will benefit Northern Ireland enabling up to 500 new graduates and employees to study Masters (MSc) level degrees in aerospace engineering it was claimed...
View ArticleKeep taxis out of bus lanes in Belfast, say cyclists
AROUND 100 cyclists and their supporters showed up for a rally to oppose proposals which could allow more taxis to use Belfast’s bus lanes.At the moment roughly 700 taxis are permitted to use the bus...
View ArticleBaggott wants break from illegal flag parades
THE Chief Constable Matt Baggott says he wants to see a break from illegal flag parades and said his officers will act against those breaking the law.Speaking on the BBC’s The View programme on...
View ArticleCrime and cold at Pensioners’ Parliament
PENSIONERS were invited to voice their greatest worries yesterday – using a Who Wants to be a Millionaire-style voting system.Called the Pensioners’ Parliament, the gathering posed a series of...
View ArticleRight to apology for wrongdoing must be equal
BETWEEN 1922 and 1996, Irish records show that 10,021 women spent time in workhouses across the country.On Tuesday of this week, Prime Minister Enda Kenny described the Catholic-run workhouses as the...
View ArticleFour candidates confirmed for Mid Ulster by-election
The race to succeed Martin McGuinness as MP for the Mid Ulster constituency has been confirmed as a four-way fight.There were no late entries to the ballot for the by-election before nominations closed...
View ArticleGormley: Why did taxpayers have to pay?
THE businessman who has cleared his name three years after being sacked from Northern Ireland Water by Conor Murphy last night asked why taxpayers had been left with a huge legal bill over the...
View ArticleLove your inner core
I’VE taken up yoga mainly because a hospital consultant told me it would help my vertigo.My first lesson was this week and I feel I should rap myself over the knuckles for letting my body get so stiff...
View ArticleRepublican areas less favourable to neighbourhood watch
Some people who joined Northern Ireland’s neighbourhood watch schemes initially faced hostility for co-operating with police, a report said.A number of residents were hard to reach while areas with a...
View ArticleDepartment has no record of teachers’ convictions
THE Department of Education does not have any record of teachers’ criminal convictions it has emerged.TUV leader Jim Allister raised the matter, after the appointment of former IRA spy Rosa McLaughlin...
View ArticleCrisp giant Tayto to invest £6m
Crisp maker Tayto is spending nearly £6 million in additional wages and salaries over the next five years as part of an investment in its plant in Co Armagh.The Tandragee company is the third largest...
View ArticleGas bills to rise 9% in Belfast
More than 120,000 natural gas customers in Belfast are facing a hike of almost 9% in their bills.Airtricity has blamed the 8.7% rise in its prices on a number of factors, including cost increases it...
View ArticleNurse who stole morphine walks free from court
A disgraced staff nurse who stole two bottles of morphine walked free from court on Friday with a Community Service Order and with a career left in tatters. Imposing an 80 hour CSO at Belfast Crown...
View ArticleInvestors win £1m legal battle over ghost holiday homes
Thirteen property buyers from Northern Ireland have won a £1million legal battle over Italian holiday homes that were never built, it emerged on Thursday. Formal judgment is set to be entered in their...
View ArticleGun pointed at man’s groin in neighbour dispute
A man today has admitted pointing a gun at his neighbour’s groin during a long-running dispute. The Belfast Crown Court trial of 63-year-old John Kiley was in it’s second day when his lawyer asked for...
View ArticleMan admits pipe bomb charges
A LONDONDERRY man has admitted possessing pipe bombs and component parts for pipe bombs. Appearing in the dock of Belfast Crown Court, 31-year-old Anthony Thomas Friel pleaded guilty to possessing the...
View ArticleCommission notified of 30 flag parades
The Parades Commission have revealed that they have been notified of around 30 flag related parades so far, but say that one event in East Belfast has not been notified.In response to the comments made...
View Article58 jobs at Tayto in £6m scheme
ALMOST 60 jobs are to be created at the legendary Tayto Castle with the announcement of an investment worth £6 million pounds by the Tandragee based business.A total of 58 new posts will be created as...
View ArticleUnionist unity candidate addresses UUP Executive
Mid-Ulster unionist unity candidate Nigel Lutton has addressed a meeting of the Ulster Unionist Party’s ruling executive, less than two weeks before the by-election.Mr Lutton arrived at the end of the...
View ArticleSurvivors of Protestant care homes ‘left in limbo’
A Northern Ireland-based group is seeking “justice” for former “inmates” of the controversial Bethany mother-and-baby home in Dublin and the children’s Westbank home in nearby Co Wicklow – both run by...
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