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Entrepreneur Kennelly an example to us all
Recession or no recession, budding entrepreneurs are still coming up with
weird and wonderful ideas and turning them into viable business projects.
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Inside Talking Shop
Awards should not forget their station
Monday, 24 November 2008
Anyone looking for a sure fire way to avoid the worst effects of the recession
could do worse than take up a new career as a sideboard maker.
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Jolly evening at Property Awards despite economic gloom
Monday, 17 November 2008
Given the state of the market, one might have been forgiven for assuming that
the property sector did not have much to celebrate these days.
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Recession has its plus points
Monday, 10 November 2008
Although the number crunchers up at Netherleigh have yet to confirm it, there
seems little doubt that Ulster Bank’s assessment of the Northern Ireland
economy is correct. We are in recession and things are set to get worse,
despite last week’s unexpectedly severe cut in interest rates.
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Credit crunch can’t gag the bank jokers
Monday, 3 November 2008
With rising unemployment, growing threats of redundancies and prices in the
shops generally going north, the economic situation is no laughing matter.
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Less is definitely more for speeches
Monday, 27 October 2008
It’s that time of year again when the clocks have gone back, the evenings are
shortening and good old Hallowe’en is here.
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Talking Shop: No Short measures at big birthday bash
Monday, 20 October 2008
Horace, Eustace and Oswald Short would surely have been more than a little
surprised had they turned up at the Waterfront Hall last week.
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Phraseology may be wrong but downward economic spiral is the same
Monday, 13 October 2008
As white knuckle rides go, current events in the financial and economic worlds
must rival anything that Barry’s Amusements up in Portrush can offer.
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Putting crisis into perspective
Monday, 29 September 2008
“The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
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McIldoon should relish energy price review role
Monday, 22 September 2008
Few people can be better qualified than Douglas McIldoon to pick over the
entrails of the recent NIE Energy price review.
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Masterly tactics used by local media-savvy energy companies
Sunday, 14 September 2008
Anyone wanting a textbook example of how to break bad news could do worse than
follow the example set by our beloved energy companies.
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New dogs, it’s an old trick
Monday, 25 August 2008
As traditional as floods in August are the ever more resourceful attempts by
the PR industry to capitalise on the “silly season”.
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Translink chief on right track
Monday, 4 August 2008
Catherine Mason, the new boss of Translink, was certainly on the right lines
when she made tracks for Whitehead last week.
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Traffic jams? Let’s not go down that road
Monday, 28 July 2008
Northern Ireland may be open for business, as Arlene Foster never tires of
telling us, but sadly the same cannot be said of Belfast city centre.
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Danish are probably the best lookers in the world
Monday, 21 July 2008
A trip to Copenhagen has given Talking Shop food for thought — and a
determination to cut down on pastry.
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Paying lip service to tide us through the credit crunch
Monday, 21 July 2008
All the talk of a credit crunch gets a body down.
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Strictly business for Sir Alex
Monday, 7 July 2008
Even football managers need a break now and then and so it was that Sir Alex
Ferguson found himself in Belfast last week.
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Savings resolution is wishful thinking
Monday, 14 January 2008
New Year resolutions always seem like a good idea at the time but by the
second week of January even the most determined can find the going a little
tough.
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Columnist Comments
• Get going now ... there’s a major crisis to tackle
The Northern Ireland Executive is preparing its strategy to tackle the on-coming economic crisis.
• View From Dublin: Separate visions - reform the civil service and slice budget
Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan hit two very large nails on the head when he launched the latest initiative to make the public service more efficient and cost-effective.
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