Last week’s Business Eye Sustainability Awards at the Culloden Estate & Spa went off very well…..eventually. The tragic death of a motorist on the A2 road just yards from the hotel gates left us all with a bit of an issue. The road remained closed
Some of our leading family businesses have been talking business in a unique series of interviews organised by Northern Ireland’s Family Business Forum. Six of the best have been chatting to two men who are among those who make the Family Business Forum tick –
We missed it last year because we had to nip off for a visit to Portugal, but we’ll be back for our annual trip to the Balmoral Show at the end of this week. As always, our trip will be courtesy of our good friends
Having just paid a £65 fine for a speeding offence, and accepted a trio of points on our licence, we must remember to take a leaf out of Jamie Bryson’s book next time we’re caught by one of the Government’s speed-detecting ice cream vans. (Of
We’re always complaining that there aren’t enough flights from our local airports to key European capitals, for instance, or direct ones to North America. Now it seems there won’t be any linking us with the delights of Rwanda either. That’s thanks to a ruling by
So the Covid Inquiry rumbles on at the Clayton Hotel, a seemingly never-ending buffet of apologies, regrets and missing WhatsApp messages. Michael McBride wrapped up his stint at the end of last week and this week we’ve had Robin Swann, Michelle O’Neill and our former
A bit like last week’s star of the show, Gerry Carroll, the living legend that is Kate Hoey rarely disappoints when it comes to her sound bites. She and Gerry, though, don’t think along similar lines politically, it should be noted. Kate has been in
With no news as yet on whether, how or even if our Executive will introduce any revenue-raising measures, the fairly pointless use of the begging bowl continues unabated this week. Apparently, we’re due some form of a budget imminently from Caoimhe Archibald but the gap
So Rishi Sunak seems a bit bemused by the fact that, in his words, since the pandemic something has gone wrong. A whopping 850,000 more people are now ‘economically inactive’ in the UK as a whole than before Covid came a-calling. Bloody hell, Prime Minister,
Given that we were nearly cancelled a month or two back thanks to a harmless little quip about International Women’s Day, we’re a tad reluctant to delve into the thorny and hazardous subject of Relationships & Sexuality Education (RSE) in our schools, the topic of