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Jolly evening at Property Awards despite economic gloom

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:07:55 GMT

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.

Recession has its plus points

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:31:33 GMT

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.

Credit crunch can’t gag the bank jokers

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:55:59 GMT

With rising unemployment, growing threats of redundancies and prices in the shops generally going north, the economic situation is no laughing matter.

Less is definitely more for speeches

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:56:34 GMT

It’s that time of year again when the clocks have gone back, the evenings are shortening and good old Hallowe’en is here.

Talking Shop: No Short measures at big birthday bash

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:28:23 GMT

Horace, Eustace and Oswald Short would surely have been more than a little surprised had they turned up at the Waterfront Hall last week.

Phraseology may be wrong but downward economic spiral is the same

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:10:23 GMT

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.

Putting crisis into perspective

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:01:36 GMT

“The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”

McIldoon should relish energy price review role

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:03:39 GMT

Few people can be better qualified than Douglas McIldoon to pick over the entrails of the recent NIE Energy price review.

Masterly tactics used by local media-savvy energy companies

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:30:08 GMT

Anyone wanting a textbook example of how to break bad news could do worse than follow the example set by our beloved energy companies.

New dogs, it’s an old trick

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:43:48 GMT

As traditional as floods in August are the ever more resourceful attempts by the PR industry to capitalise on the “silly season”.

Translink chief on right track

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:25:13 GMT

Catherine Mason, the new boss of Translink, was certainly on the right lines when she made tracks for Whitehead last week.

Traffic jams? Let’s not go down that road

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:36:25 GMT

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.

Danish are probably the best lookers in the world

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:09:46 GMT

A trip to Copenhagen has given Talking Shop food for thought — and a determination to cut down on pastry.

Paying lip service to tide us through the credit crunch

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:08:47 GMT

All the talk of a credit crunch gets a body down.

Strictly business for Sir Alex

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:00:41 GMT

Even football managers need a break now and then and so it was that Sir Alex Ferguson found himself in Belfast last week.