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Car industry should speed up
It's a Friday night; you have endured a busy week in the office and are
looking forward to the weekend, which enables you to do the things your
work’s diary doesn’t permit Monday to Friday.
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Inside Talking Shop
Strong euro encourages holidays at home
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
In the current economic climate, foreign summer holidays are a luxury many
cannot afford while others would prefer to save their cash for a rainy day.
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Summer time, and the living is easy
Tuesday, 7 July 2009
The odd heavy shower or two aside, it seems that summer is finally upon us.
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Time to take a break from long school holidays
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
As Alice Cooper’s popular song from 1972 goes ‘School’s out for summer’.
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Victoria Square leaves us hungry for more
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
With the developers all set to crank up their PR machine for a grand unveiling
of Victoria Square’s long-awaited apartment scheme, the award-winning mall
suffered another setback.
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Bite at success can leave bitter sweet taste
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
Sir Alan Sugar on Sunday finally hired a new apprentice, bringing to a close
what is supposed to be a contest between some of the UK’s sharpest young
business minds.
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Full steam ahead for tourism awards ceremony
Tuesday, 2 June 2009
The Northern Ireland Tourist Board was on the right track when it selected the
venue for the annual tourism awards ceremony.
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When emails hit sour note...
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
The speed with which things happen on the internet never fails to impress.
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Lessons to be learned for school traffic
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Thank goodness for the exam season. Not only does it usually produce the only
decent weather of the summer, but it also means a dramatic reduction in
rush-hour traffic levels.
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Bosses left in a fix by Euro candidates
Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Even though the economy is everyone’s number one priority these days, business
leaders were left little the wiser after a hustings event involving Northern
Ireland’s seven European Parliament candidates last week.
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Sporting chance of political agreement
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
The announcement of Belfast International Airport’s £10m facelift was greeted
with a general thumbs up by the great and the good attending the launch at
the Hilton Templepatrick.
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Stop-go on M2
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Great to see the traffic rolling unfettered down the hill section of the M2
from Sandyknowes, now that the third lane is open.
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The rule is whatever you say, say nothing
Tuesday, 5 May 2009
They seek him here, they seek him there, but Bank of England Governor Mervyn
Allister King proved just a little elusive as far as the media was concerned.
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Darling’s day of reckoning
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Alistair may not be anyone’s darling at present — unless of course you happen
to own a 12-year-old banger and are someone of working age who cares for
grandchildren more than 20 hours a week.
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Sound PR advice from our Power Book four
Tuesday, 21 April 2009
As if Who’s Who wasn’t enough, a new guide has been published to the people
who really matter — the stars of the world of public relations.
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From Fermanagh with love — the Bond girl
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
So now we know Arlene Foster’s best kept secret. It seems that the Enterprise
Minister has long harboured a little notion about becoming a Bond girl.
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Taoiseach gives of his best to CBI Northern Ireland
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
So how do you follow having Ian Paisley as last year’s guest speaker at your
annual dinner?
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US ambassador firmly rooted in Newry
Monday, 23 March 2009
The jury may still be out on President O’bama’s links with the supposed
ancestral home in Co Offaly, but there’s no doubt that Newry blood courses
through the veins of the new US Ambassador to Ireland.
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Give us all a break to celebrate St Patrick’s Day
Monday, 16 March 2009
Although St Patrick’s Day is one of Northern Ireland’s 10 annual permanent
bank holidays, tomorrow will sadly not be a day of festivity for everyone.
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Money talks as Stormont riot fears subside
Monday, 9 March 2009
And so to Stormont to see the Treasury Select Committee get to grips with the
impact of the credit crunch on Northern Ireland.
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Invest NI ceremony serves up food for thought
Monday, 23 February 2009
How's this for an innovation? The function starts promptly at 7.30pm, the
feasting is interspersed by the speeches, the awards are dished out with
some alacrity and the whole bash finishes 15 minutes early at 10.15pm.
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