Environment issues are ‘hampering growth’
NORTHERN Ireland’s high instance of Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) concerning planning application is delaying development, hindering investment, and in some cases making companies think twice...
View ArticleNew Year...new healthy you?
Research has shown that many cancers are preventable, so with the dawn of a new year, why not take your health in your own hands and make some changes to your lifestyle that may reduce your risk of...
View ArticleAuction Yard donates a ‘hunk of love’ for charity
BUSINESSES were urged yesterday to do their bit for charity in the new year by giving any unwanted or unused stock for sale to raise funds for good work.Make Space for Oxfam is the name of the campaign...
View ArticlePLATFORM: Marriage more than piece of paper
Marriage is more than a piece of paper, writes Peter Lynas, NI Director of Evangelical Alliancereverse the appalling and costly impact of family breakdown. The news comes on the first working day after...
View ArticleMan died after fall in hospital
A PENSIONER died after sustaining a head injury following an accident at Belfast City Hospital, an inquest heard yesterday.James Boyd, 76, became unwell when he was a patient at the hospital after he...
View ArticleBoard calls for public to help make Ulster’s streets safer
MEMBERS of the public who want to make Northern Ireland a safer place are being urged to come forward as members of new Policing and Community Safety Partnerships [PCSPs].The Northern Ireland Policing...
View ArticleBlackouts as storms hit Ulster
MORE homes across Northern Ireland were hit by power cuts after winds reaching speeds in excess of 70mph lashed the Province on Wednesday night and into yesterday morning.However, this latest black-out...
View ArticlePaisley’s growing support struck terror in ministers
PERMEATING almost every 1981 Government file concerned with political or security developments is the presence of Ian Paisley.From the decriminalisation of homosexuality to the hunger strike and the...
View ArticleTitanic centre seeking workers with ‘T-Factor’
TITANIC Belfast is asking potential employees if they have the required “Titanic T-Factor” to impress visitors when the landmark building opens on March 31.The centre will open in time for the...
View ArticlePoor weather hampers hunt for missing cyclist
MEMBERS of the public were urged not to rejoin the coastal search for missing Kells cyclist Samuel Campbell as the area was battered by severe weather conditions.In a statement police thanked friends...
View ArticleMcDonnell U-turn over wages claim
SDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell has backtracked from his claim that the current salary paid to MLAs is a “starvation wage”.And the underfire South Belfast MP has also apologised to those offended by his...
View ArticleDissidents target soldier in bomb attack
A VIABLE explosive device found under a car in north Belfast was intended to kill a serving soldier, it has emerged. A security alert was triggered in the Blackdam Court area in the city on Thursday...
View ArticleIAN PAISLEY: The poetry of the gospel
WHEN we think of John Milton the majority of us think first of his epic poem, Paradise Lost. We don’t immediately think of his blindness, his politics or his theology, though all of these informed his...
View ArticleVisitors flocking to the province
More people are visiting Northern Ireland from overseas and spending more when they are here, new figures have revealed.Around 1.2 million foreign tourists spent at least one night in the Province...
View ArticleGreat expectations: 2012 promises to be one very hot year in the arts
JOANNE SAVAGE looks at the bumper lineup on the 2012 arts calendar. Book early and oftenSO, just what can we look forward to in the arts in 2012? By the looks of things a helluva lot.The dreamy James...
View ArticleScores of paramilitaries interviewed – few know their names
TWO years ago I visited the Burns Library at Boston College and interviewed Professor Thomas Hachey – custodian of the archive – about the project’s significance.Professor Hachey, director of the Irish...
View ArticleCould the secret archive in Boston end our peace?
A US courtroom battle to make public secret recordings of former paramilitaries could have significant unforeseen consequences for the Stormont Assembly, writes SAM McBRIDETHERE is increasing interest...
View ArticleCarroll murder was a set-up, trial is told
THE murder of Constable Stephen Carroll was a “set-up” near a housing estate police regarded as a dissident republican stronghold, Belfast Crown Court heard yesterday.During the second day of the trial...
View ArticleLoose bolt killed 100mph biker
TOP Irish motorcyclist Martin Finnegan was killed in a 100mph crash after his front brake failed because of a loose bolt, a coroner ruled yesterday.The 29-year-old father-of-one died at the Tandragee...
View ArticlePolice ‘target of explosion’
AN explosion in Londonderry last night may have been an attack on police, it is understood.The loud explosion was reported in the Waterside area – centred around the lower Spencer Road area heading...
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