People on the Move
Joanne Aiken
In her new role Joanne will be working within the credit control |department,
dealing with customer inquiries.
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Claire Anne McArdle
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Name: Claire Anne McArdle
Company: NIE Energy
Position: Credit control clerk
Role: Claire Anne will be working within the company’s credit control department, dealing with customer inquiries.
Track record: Claire Anne joins NIE Energy having gained a BSc Hons in Management from Queens University. She has previous experience working for BBC HR Direct.
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Jonathan Ritchie
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Name: Jonathan Ritchie
Company: Oasis Travel
Position: Cruise specialist
Role: Jonathan joins Oasis Travel’s specialist cruise centre in the company’s Lisburn branch. He will promote the sale of cruise holidays and assist in the development of the company’s growing cruise division.
Track record: Jonathan moves from the retail division of Oasis Travel where he worked for 13 years. He has 23 years experience in the travel industry.
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Neil Morgan
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Name: Neil Morgan
Company: Oasis Travel
Position: Senior travel consultant
Role: Neil joins Oasis Travel’s Lisburn branch and is responsible for advising on and selling all aspects of travel.
Track record: Neil has 21 years experience in travel industry and previously worked for McNeill Worldwide.
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Andrea Currie
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Name: Andrea Currie
Company: Grand Opera House
Position: Operations manager
Role: Andrea will use her international experience as manager of the opera house’s operations.
Track record: Andrea graduated from the University of Ulster, Jordanstown with a BA (Hons) Hospitality Management. She worked for Wine Inns Ltd in Belfast before moving to Dubai working for the prestigious Jumeirah within Hospitality & Training. She joined a European events firm in Dubai as director of events operations.
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Andrew Reid
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Name: Andrew Reid.
Company: Capitus
Position: Tax and incentives consultant
Role: Advising clients on how to maximise tax relief for investment and development of property. Andrew has joined to specialise in tax incentives for research and development and will also be responsible for further developing the firm’s tax depreciation services
Track record: Andrew trained as a chartered accountant with PwC where he worked within the personal and corporate tax departments.
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Karen Steele
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Name: Karen Steele
Company: Grand Opera House
Position: Finance director
Role: Karen is responsible for all Finance, IT and HR related issues at the Grand Opera House
Track record: Having trained in KPMG, Belfast; Karen qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2000. She has joined the Grand Opera House from The Strategic Investment Board, where she was finance manager. Prior to this she worked as financial controller in the retail/wholesale of DVDs.
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Tina Harrison
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Name: Tina Harrison
Company: Baker Tilly Mooney Moore
Position: HR manager
Role: Tina will manage all aspects of the firm’s HR strategy and procedures in her new job
Track record: Tina was previously employed by Grant Thornton in Dublin as an HR specialist and before that worked as part of the Northern Ireland Health Service’s HR team. Tina is a graduate of both Queen’s University and the University of Ulster.
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Claire McKeown
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Name: Claire McKeown
Company: Baker Tilly Mooney Moore
Position: Senior auditor
Role: In her new role Claire will oversee the audit field work of a range of clients for the company
Track record: Claire trained and worked with Reidwilliams in Reading, England for six years before returning to Northern Ireland to join Baker Tilly Mooney Moore.
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Niall Gibbons
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Name: Niall Gibbons
Company: Tourism Ireland
Position: Chief executive
Role: Niall heads up the senior management team, which includes the directors of the three Tourism Ireland divisions
Track record: Prior to joining Tourism Ireland as a director in 2002, he held senior roles in the private and public sector. He is a business graduate of Trinity College, Dublin and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland.
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Heather McClean
Friday, 19 June 2009
Name: Heather McClean
Company: Baker Tilly Mooney Moore
Position: Audit and assurance assistant manager
Role: Heather will provide accounting services to a range of professional practices and owner managed businesses in her new role
Track Record: Heather was previously employed by Neeson Chambers and prior to that managed the Business Services Department for audit and accountancy firm Ernst and Young
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Thomas Redpath
Friday, 19 June 2009
Name: Thomas Redpath
Company: Baker Tilly Mooney Moore
Position: Audit and assurance manager
Role: In his new position Thomas will manage the audit of a range of clients on behalf of the firm
Track Record: Thomas joins the company from Belfast firm Goldblatt McGuigan where he was audit manager. He was previously employed by accountancy firm Grant Thornton and completed his training with PriceWaterhouseCoopers
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Clare McCarrison
Friday, 19 June 2009
Name: Clare McCarrison
Company: Harbinson Mulholland
Position: Accounts and audit manager
Role: Clare’s new role involves managing audits for a number of small and medium sized companies, charities, solicitors’ practices and pension funds. Clare also assists a number of clients with the preparation of management accounting information
Track Record: Clare joined the firm in 2002 as a trainee accountant and qualified as a member of the Chartered Accountants in Ireland in March 2006
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Brendan Dwyer
Friday, 19 June 2009
Name: Brendan Dwyer
Company: Harbinson Mulholland
Position:Partner
Role: Brendan will lead the firm’s high value litigation assignments and develop the criminal and commercial forensic accounting team
Track Record: Before joining Harbinson Mulholland in 2002 Brendan spent four years as Financial Controller at JE Coulter Ltd. Before then he worked for PWC. Using both his industrial and professional experience, Brendan has acted as an expert witness in both criminal and commercial cases ranging from £5,000 to millions of pounds
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Louise Hasson
Friday, 19 June 2009
Name: Louise Hasson
Company: SQS
Position: Team leader
Role: Louise heads up a team of test consultants and is responsible for managing the scheduling and implementation of test projects for a number of key clients
Track Record: Louise holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Ulster, Coleraine and is currently studying for HP tools certification. She first joined SQS in April 2008 and worked as a level one consultant before being promoted to the position of team leader
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Mark Emerson
Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Name: Mark Emerson
Company: TSA Planning
Position: Assistant planner
Role: Mark is responsible for assisting the senior planner and director of TSA and providing professional planning advice and information to clients
Track record: Mark recently graduated from Heriot-Watt University after completing a Masters in Urban and |Regional Planning. He also holds an undergraduate degree in Geography from Queen’s University
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Kieran Dalton
Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Name: Kieran Dalton
Company: BTI Systems
Position: Vice president and general manager
Role: Kieran will have overall management responsibility for BTI Systems European Centre. The Belfast centre will be the focal point for sales and support for BTI’s European customer base.
Track record: Kieran has more than 20 years’ experience in Telecommunications and Software. He has held senior roles in F5, Aepona and BT.
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Damian O'Neill
Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Name: Damian O’Neill
Company: BTI Systems
Position: Director, Software Solutions
Role: In his new role Damian has responsibility for engineering and architectural activities in BTI’s software based product portfolio.
Track record: Damian holds a BSc in Computer Science from Queens University Belfast. His previous positions include product manager, web services portfolio, Aepona, chairman of 3GPP CT5 working group.
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James Hughes
Friday, 29 May 2009
Name: James Hughes
Company: Barclay Communications
Position: Business Relationship Manager
Role: Previously working for The Link and Orange, he has seven years experience in the telecoms industry. In his new role, James will be focusing on the management of O2 small business accounts.
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Gary Dawson
Friday, 29 May 2009
Name: Gary Dawson
Company: Barclay Communications
Position: Business Relationship Manager
Role: After a successful two and half years within the Appointment Making Department, Gary’s duties will now include managing the needs of O2 small business customers, while promoting Barclay Communications core product lines.
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Mark Gilmour
Friday, 29 May 2009
Name: Mark Gilmour
Company: Barclay Communications
Position: Business Relationship Manager
Role: Working with the new BRM team, Mark will be delivering a comprehensive Account Management service to Barclay Communications’ O2 small business customers.
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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.
Business Poll: Corporation Tax?
Should Northern Ireland be allowed to adopt the same rate of Corporaton Tax as the Republic?
Should Northern Ireland be allowed to adopt the same rate of Corporaton Tax as the Republic?
| Yes |
 72% |
| No |
 28% |
ACADEMIC SELECTION
Which of these statements do you agree with
Which of these statements do you agree with
| The 11-Plus should be retained |
46% |
| The 11-Plus should be replaced by another form of academic selection |
29% |
| All forms of academic selection should be outlawed in Northern Ireland |
25% |
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