Efficiency good for business
THIRTY businesses across Northern Ireland have bucked the economic trend and collaborated to achieve actual cost savings of £2.2 million and generate additional sales of over £550,000 after a programme...
View ArticleMothercare facing more store closures
STRUGGLING retailer Mothercare confirmed yesterday it is to close another 111 UK stores over the next three years, with the loss of 730 jobs.The mothers-to-be, babies and children’s group revealed...
View ArticleNorthgate in multi-million pound pharmaceutical deal
NEWTOWNABBEY-based IT specialist Northgate Managed Services yesterday confirmed a multi-million pound contract with pharmaceutical wholesale company AAH. The three-year partnership renewal will see...
View ArticleFamily make appeal to find IRA killers
A HUSBAND of a woman murdered by the IRA more than three decades ago has put forward a reward of £20,000 to find her killers.Joanne Mathers, a mother-of-one, was shot dead by the IRA as she collected...
View ArticleLeaders discuss China’s Christians
FIRST Minister Peter Robinson has discussed China’s Christians – some of whom are brutally repressed by their Communist rulers – with the country’s most senior female politician.A DUP spokesman told...
View ArticleRequiem for Titanic victims
The doleful sound of a ship’s horn introduced Requiem for the Lost Souls of the Titanic at St Anne’s in Belfast on Saturday evening.Jarring brass depicted the crashing of the waves and lent a sense of...
View Article‘Proud’ city host Titanic tribute
A SPECIAL centenary commemoration unveiling a new memorial to all the Titanic victims took place in the “proud” city of Belfast on Sunday.The vessel, which sunk on April 15 1912 with the loss of 1,500...
View ArticleMother and daughter die in fire
INVESTIGATIONS are continuing into the cause of a fire which claimed the lives of a mother and daughter in Dungannon.Elizabeth McGirr, 71, and her 38-year-old daughter Deirdre McGirr were killed after...
View Article‘Titanic spirit can build better future’
DEAN of Belfast the Very Rev John Mann said Northern Ireland should harness the passion that built Titanic to create a better future for the Province.He was speaking at a special service in St Anne’s...
View ArticleALEX KANE: I won’t be saying sorry to SF
SINN Fein Easter statements (which are, in reality, their equivalent of the Groundhog Day hoopla) usually fall into five distinct categories: the mythological; the delusionally self-serving; the...
View ArticleSF’s reconciliation call is dismissed as ‘stunt’
SINN Fein’s call for reconciliation has been dismissed as “another stunt” by the son of a UDR soldier murdered by the IRA 40 years ago this week.Jim Elliott was 12 years old when his father James was...
View ArticleROSS HUSSEY: How can we help families of disappeared?
THE continuing fight of the families of the disappeared for information on the location of their loved ones remains a poignant and sobering reminder of Northern Ireland’s deeply troubled past. The...
View ArticleNI leaders jet off on trade mission
The First Minister and Deputy First Minister are leading a five-day business mission to the United Arab Emirates and India.Economy Minister Arlene Foster joins Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness.They...
View ArticleDissident bomb at officer’s family home
A bomb found in Londonderry on Sunday night was left outside the family home of a serving police officer, the PSNI has said.Several homes were evacuated just after midnight as army bomb experts...
View ArticleProbe continues into fatal blaze
THE cause of a fire which claimed the lives of a mother and daughter has still not been established.Yesterday, police officers continued to examine the scene in the Dunlea Vale area of Dungannon where...
View ArticlePSNI officer’s parents escape under-car bomb
THE fuse had been lit on a dissident bomb which failed to explode at the family home of a Londonderry police officer, it has been revealed.Dissident republican group the Real IRA is the chief suspect...
View Article‘We can all be proud of our Titanic legacy’
A BELFAST woman who came into the world the day after Titanic’s short life ended has celebrated her century with a tour of the ship’s legacy attraction.Isabella Young was at Titanic Belfast yesterday...
View ArticleMLA rejects BBC man’s ‘ill-informed’ attack
CRITICISM of the Titanic commemoration events is “ill-informed”, an Assembly member has said.BBC presenter Andrew Marr branded parts of the anniversary schedule as “sordid and tasteless and dull”.But...
View ArticleMemorial ‘shows full scale of the tragedy’
ONE day on from Sunday’s unveiling of the new Titanic memorial at Belfast City Hall, people of all ages were yesterday coming out to pay their respects.As veteran seafarer John Graham ran his finger...
View ArticleEmpey and Elliott are appointed to UUP officer posts
ULSTER Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt has appointed one of his predecessors, Lord Empey, as UUP chairman.Mr Nesbitt appointed the former Stormont minister to take over from David Campbell, who held the...
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