Feile an Phobail have held a disability development event in Grosvenor Community and Recreation Centre. The event “Sportability” brought together young people with and without disability for a sporting competition to encourage inclusive participation. Feile an Phobail’s Disability Development officer, Margaret McKernan said it was “ fantastic to see so many young people come together cheering and giving encouragement to team members”.
Belfast City Council has fined two contracting companies after they failed to secure a demolition site in the Donegal Road area that was found to contain asbestos. The site, which is yards from a primary school was shut down after the discovery of asbestos but the local residents complained that nothing had been done to seal off the site and that youths were still able to gain access. The City Council moved to secure the site last year and subsequently [...]
Feile launch Sportabilty project Feile an Phobail have held a disability development event in Grosvenor Community and Recreation Centre. The event “Sportability” brought together young people with and without disability for a sporting competition to encourage inclusive participation. Feile an Phobail’s Disability Development officer, Margaret McKernan said it was “ fantastic to see so many young people come together cheering and giving encouragement to team members”. Firms fined over safety failures Belfast City Council has fined two contracting companies after [...]
Visitors to the public records office of Northern Ireland in Belfast’s Titanic Quarter this month, have a chance to view a unique exhibition ‘Ground Zero 360′. Curated by Fine Art Photographer Nicola McClean and her husband Paul McCormack, a former NYPD Officer, who was at the site on that day. The exhibition contains images taken at the site on 9/11, alongside objects retrieved from the area during the subsequent cleanup. Two previously unseen paintings by renowned artist Jim Fitzpatrick, are [...]
Controversy this week over the implications of Scottish Government plans to waive tuition fees for students from EU countries outside of the UK. The rules mean that while English and Welsh students wishing to study in Scotland will face the full fee package, those from Northern Ireland may be able to avoid charges if they apply for an Irish passport which they are legally entitled to hold under the laws of citizenship between North and South. Scottish Education Secretary has [...]
Consumer Protection Laws For Holiday Makers New Consumer protection laws have come into effect from the first of May, offering assurances against the nightmare faced by travellers stranded in foreign countries over recent years as tour operators have gone bust. The new government reforms state that those booking a packaged deal will have to offered suitable alternatives if an airline or accommodation provider goes out of business before the date of travel as well as during their trip abroad. Representatives [...]
Consumer Protection Laws For Holiday Makers New Consumer protection laws have come into effect from the first of May, offering assurances against the nightmare faced by travellers stranded in foreign countries over recent years as tour operators have gone bust. The new government reforms state that those booking a packaged deal will have to offered suitable alternatives if an airline or accommodation provider goes out of business before the date of travel as well as during their trip abroad. Representatives [...]
It has been announced that the local company responsible for manufacturing the unique weatherproof cladding on the new Titanic Belfast building has won contracts to provide custom fabrications to two Audi dealerships in England. EDM Products Spanwall system is already being utilised on a number of Landmark buildings in Belfast including the new Audi showroom for Isaac Agnew. EDM have been building their expertise and reputation for over Forty years, winning contracts with renowned architect practises and working on some [...]
Lyric Theatre 1st Anniversary Today is the first anniversary of the reopening of Belfast’s Lyric Theatre. In the last twelve months, the theatre, which started out in the home of founders Mary and Pearse O’Malley in 1958, has seen over 70,000 people come through the doors to watch performances on the Northern Bank Stage and the Naughton Studio as well as making use of the Café Bar and the various Creative Learning workshops. The coming weeks will include performances of [...]
Powerade Queen’s 5K Local runners were treated to a gap in the wind and rain on the banks of the river Lagan on Thursday evening as they took part in Queen’s Sport annual 5-kilometre race in association with Powerade. The race is now in it’s tenth year and attracts runners of all abilities and is seen as a great preparation race for the Deep River Rock Belfast Marathon which takes place on May 7th. This years winners were Joe McCalister [...]
MLA’s concern over fuel tax rise MLA’s have hit out at the Westminster Government’s fuel duty rise planned for the end of the summer. Stormont Ministers from all parties have agreed that three pence a litre added to prices which were already amongst the highest in Europe would hit Northern Ireland’s motorists hard and have a devastating affect on the Haulage industry. Sinn Fein has argued that fuel duty rates needed be set locally and should be [...]
1st MLA’S CONCERNS OVER FUEL TAX RISE MLA’s have hit out at the Westminster Government’s fuel duty rise planned for the end of the summer. Stormont Ministers from all parties have agreed that three pence a litre added to prices which were already amongst the highest in Europe would hit Northern Ireland’s motorists hard and have a devastating affect on the Haulage industry. Sinn Fein has argued that fuel duty rates needed be set locally and should be devolved from [...]
1st NATIONAL ASSET MANAGMENT AGENCY Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency(NAMA) has said that 5 local pubs belonging to two companies, Lanyon Trading and Lisk, are currently under administration and could be sold raising capital to cover unpaid debt.The five Belfast pubs, Madison’s , The Kings Head, The Botanic Inn, The Globe and The Northen Whig, are all currently leased to Botanic Inns, a separate company that is unaffected and has continued to trade as normal.The directors of the insolvent [...]
Belfast News 20/04/2012 BELFAST CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AT TITANIC Tuesday evening saw landmark building ‘Titanic Belfast’, play host to a gala dinner on behalf of, Belfast Chamber of Commerce. 2012 is the Chambers 230th anniversary. In celebration, business leaders from all over Northern Ireland turned up, joined by several Assembly members and various community leaders. Aside from a world class venue, guests were treated to after dinner entertainment by jazz star , Jamie Cullum. The steady rise in tourist interest, [...]
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Details have been unveiled of the route the Olympic Torch Relay will follow when it visits Belfast at the beginning of June. The torch – the iconic symbol of the Olympic Games – will be carried around the British Isles by more than 8,000 runners, arriving in Belfast late on the evening of Saturday 2 June. The next morning it will leave the new Titanic Belfast building at just after 6am, from where it will tour North Down and Ards, [...]
Businesses across Belfast can once again benefit from making environmental cost savings in their workplace while boosting profits at the same time. They can now sign up to take part in the next round of the BITES (Business Improvements Through Environmental Solutions) Programme which is funded by Belfast City Council with support from the European Regional Development Fund. BITES is a business development initiative designed to help companies reduce waste and energy, boost profits and help the environment. Running for [...]
A new signage scheme, highlighting places of interest along the Titanic and Maritime Heritage Trails, has been unveiled in Belfast. Jointly funded by the Northern Ireland Tourist Board, under the Tourism Development Scheme, and Belfast City Council, the white on brown road signage and colourful pedestrian signage will help visitors and those who live and work in the city find their way to, from and around the Titanic Quarter and Belfast`s Titanic tourism assets. The total cost of the signage [...]
Fleet-footed children ‘took to their heels’ in Ormeau Park today in the final of this year’s Belfast Schools Cross Country Competition. More than 800 children from 42 schools across the city participated in the event during the heats and while competition was fierce the winning teams are Finaghy P.S (Girls) and Springhill P.S (Boys) The High Sheriff, Alderman May Campbell, presented the prizes to teams and individual winners. Congratulating them on their hard work and success Alderman Campbell said: “It [...]
A South Belfast store has beaten off stiff competition from others in the city to win the title of Best Visual Merchandising Display, as part of Belfast Independent Retail Week. More than 160 local shops signed up for the first ever BIRW from 5-11 March, organised by Belfast City Council, to celebrate the uniqueness and quality of the city`s independent retailers. BIRW also aimed to promote fine neighbourhood shopping across the city. Honey on the Lisburn Road – a boutique [...]
The creation of a city-wide student housing strategy is key to solving the problems long-associated with Belfast’s Holyland area, according to an independent study. The report, which was commissioned by Belfast City Council on behalf of a number of agencies, also sets out how a long-term strategy to ‘reclaim’ the Holyland by encouraging a better mix of housing in the area, and making it a more attractive and desirable place to live. It also recognises that while there is a [...]
A new Titanic-themed street art piece, featuring the names of men and women who worked at the shipyard during the great ship`s construction, has been unveiled in Belfast. Groups from the Mountpottinger and Short Strand areas of the city came together for this cross-community project which ran as part of Belfast City Council`s Titanic community engagement programme. Located at a disused site on Castlereagh Street, the colourful art panels feature striking abstract images of Titanic along with names of Castlereagh [...]
In a list of the UK’s top 20 cities, Belfast is at the bottom when it comes to reducing carbon emissions. While other cities fell by over 12%, Belfast managed just 4%. The city actually increased its emissions at one stage. Even Greater London, which was just one place above Belfast, managed a 10% reduction. The survey was carried out by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Belfast’s per capita emissions are the highest of the 20 cities surveyed. [...]
A Belfast artist is making an exhibition of himself to highlight his latest collection of work to be shown at Gormley’s Fine Art house. Regarded as one of Ireland’s most exciting young talents, Francis McCrory has created a massive poster of himself, alongside an artist’s easel, to promote his new exhibit being shown at the Lisburn Road gallery. Decorating a corner of Glengall Street, Francis told the News Letter the huge 48-sheet image is “really more a piece of installation art than an [...]
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