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News [1]
Opinion [2]
Business [3]
Sport [4]
Life [5]
Entertainment [7]
Travel [8]
Sunday Life [9]

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Business

Electricity prices are on the up.

Northern Ireland

Power NI’s 7% price hike a nightmare for families already struggling to make ends meet: MLA

Power NI is hiking electricity bills by nearly 7% to an average of £610 a year for its almost half a million customers.

Latest News

Headlines

Kainos in Belfast returned the furlough money

Northern Ireland Premium

exclusive NI firms returned nearly £62m in furlough funds to HMRC

Portstewart strand

Food, Drink and Hospitality Premium

High demand for NI staycations sends prices rocketing – week in Algarve cheaper than North Coast

Challenges: Simon Hamilton is hopeful businesses have ‘turned a page’. Credit: Stephen Hamilton

Northern Ireland

Belfast firms ‘will take years to get over Covid’

Culloden Hotel

Northern Ireland

Hastings hotel group reports a loss of £16.6m

From left: Steve Orr, CEO Catalyst; Kirsty McManus, Director of the Institute of Directors; Economy Minister Diane Dodds; Dr Jayne Brady MBE, Belfast Digital Innovation Commissioner; Michael Ryan, vice president and general manager of Spirit AeroSystems Belfast; and Dr Joanne Stuart OBE, CEO of Northern Ireland Tourism Alliance

Northern Ireland

Dodds’ 10 year plan ‘to improve economy and quality of life’

The Mourne Seafood Bar

Coronavirus Premium

Lift our ‘overcautious’ hospitality lockdown, doctor says

Institution: The Wellington Park Hotel is a popular spot in Belfast’s nightlife

Northern Ireland Premium

Firm behind well-known Belfast hotel is liquidated

Reform: Aidan Larkin, founder of Asset Reality

Northern Ireland Premium

Asset Reality founder Aidan Larkin: ‘Putting the proceeds of crime to good use helps to change lives’

Northern Ireland’s Parliament Buildings at Stormont, Belfast (PA)

Analysis Premium

John Simpson Opinion Counting the cost of pandemic borrowing

Programme: Deborah Stevenson of PwC and Ulster University’s Gillian Armstrong launch the scheme

Northern Ireland

Wanted: 50 apprentices for PwC scheme

In Focus: Top 100 Companies 2020

Top 100 Companies Premium

exclusive Revealed: Northern Ireland's Top 100 Companies 2020

The must-read guide to Northern Ireland’s most profitable companies.

Top 100 Companies Premium

John Simpson Opinion How companies were able to qualify for the Top 100 for 2020

In this world of change and challenge though, Northern Ireland has many unique qualities that will see it through, writes Kevin Holland (Justin Kernoghan/PA)

Top 100 Companies

Kevin Holland Opinion The human cost of Covid-19 has been devastating and the economic shock has been severe

The economic shock in Q2 has been felt differently across the economy.

Top 100 Companies Premium

Angela McGowan Opinion A key feature of the pandemic has been the varied impact it’s had on different economic sectors

Diane Dodds Opinion Our companies have shown great resilience in recent months as they’ve worked to diversify

Premium

Glyn Roberts Opinion Our retailers have responded well to the challenges of Covid yet we must brace ourselves for what’s next

Premium

Stephen Kelly Opinion Covid-19 has shone light on our makers

Northern Ireland

The housing market in Northern Ireland has taken off recently. Credit: Graham Moore

Northern Ireland Premium

Co Down leads way in house price growth as rural properties become more popular

Barry Hamill's Golf Academy

Northern Ireland

Owner of on-the-market Tyrone golf range determined to drive a hard bargain

Electricity prices are on the up.

Northern Ireland

Power NI’s 7% price hike ‘nightmare’ for NI families

Kainos in Belfast returned the furlough money

Northern Ireland Premium

exclusive NI firms returned nearly £62m in furlough funds to HMRC

Food Drink & Hospitality

Portstewart strand

Food, Drink and Hospitality Premium

High demand for NI staycations sends prices rocketing – week in Algarve cheaper than North Coast

Colin Neill

Coronavirus

Executive ‘must bring forward reopening of hospitality’

Institution: The Wellington Park Hotel is a popular spot in Belfast’s nightlife

Northern Ireland Premium

Firm behind Belfast’s Wellington Park Hotel is liquidated

Joining forces: Colin Neill, Ros Agnew, Belfast Jobs & Benefits Office, and Aodhán Connolly. Photo: Darren Kidd

Northern Ireland

NI hospitality sector bosses urged to hire unemployed retail staff

Brexit

Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots. Credit: Clodagh Kilcoyne

Brexit

Report from Poots’ department tells of NI Protocol ‘advantages’ for fishermen

A sign protesting against the Northern Ireland Protocol in Larne Harbour, Northern Ireland (Niall Carson/PA)

Northern Ireland

Campaign to fund NI Protocol judicial review raises just over a third of £150,000 target

Boris Johnson during a visit to the Tayto Castle crisp factory in Tandragee, County Armagh (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

Northern Ireland

Firm behind Tayto crisps facing Brexit 'logistical problems' as it reports £207.2m in revenue

Concerns: Businessman Robert Mulligan

Northern Ireland Premium

Northern Ireland riots may have scuppered my deal, says businessman as doubts hang over London banks' funding

Jobs

Finance Minister Conor Murphy with some current EO1s and EO2s: Jill McKendry, Louise Boyd, Debra Rice and Shaun Buchanan. Pic Department of Finance

Jobs

NI Civil Service recruitment campaign launched for 500 jobs

Flight path: Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey with Andrew McQuillan and Stephen Mills of Crowded Space Drones

Jobs

Flying high: NI video production firm boosts youth JobStart scheme

Jobs

Auction house creating 40 jobs with Northern Ireland expansion

Rory Byrne, director of Modern Tyres; Kevin Holland, CEO Invest NI, and James McKee, financial director, Modern Tyres

Northern Ireland

Modern Tyres creates 23 jobs as it pumps £5.6m into the business

Agri

Minister Poots is pictured with CAFRE Director Martin McKendry at Greenmount Campus, Co.Antrim, where the Minsiter announced a £75million investment plan to refurbish both Greenmount Campus and Loughry College, Cookstown. Photo Kelvin Boyes PressEye

Agri

Agriculture colleges boosted by £75 million new building investment

Fungi have many uses, including edible mushrooms (Alison Pouliot/Royal Botanic Gardens Kew/PA)

Agri

Co Armagh firm Axis wins £4m contract to help mushroom harvesting

Blaze at Ready Egg's factory in Lisnaskea

Northern Ireland

Watch: Firefighters battle large blaze at Northern Ireland egg factory after 'accidental ignition'

A combine harvester cuts the last of the wheat in a field

Northern Ireland Premium

exclusive Poor harvest costs Northern Ireland's bakeries £20k a week, says bread boss

Technology

Flight path: Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey with Andrew McQuillan and Stephen Mills of Crowded Space Drones

Jobs

Flying high: NI video production firm boosts youth JobStart scheme

The decision came as the Republic's Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) sent a series of questions to the party about the database, which contains the names and addresses of millions of Irish voters

Republic of Ireland

Sinn Fein shuts site linked to its secret voter database

Ian Cullen and Denis Finnegan, Grofuse

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland firms Stripe and Grofuse help retailers tap into online sales boom

Susan O'Kane, eastern regional manager, Invest NI with Terry Robinson, chief executive of Vox Financial

Jobs

US fintech firm Vox creating 30 new Belfast jobs

Analysis

Northern Ireland’s Parliament Buildings at Stormont, Belfast (PA)

Analysis Premium

John Simpson Opinion Counting the cost of pandemic borrowing

Climate change is mainly driven by burning fossil fuels (Peter Byrne/PA)

Northern Ireland Premium

John Simpson Opinion Northern Ireland gets serious about climate change

Difficulties: The NI Protocol has caused concern for some businesses bringing in goods from Great Britain into ports here

Analysis Premium

John Simpson Opinion Not too late to improve Northern Ireland Protocol

Critical: NI’s electricity system is evolving

Analysis Premium

John Simpson Opinion NI’s electricity system and regulation: Utility Regulator is looking into the ownership structure of EirGrid and its subsidiary SONI

Uk & World

Suspect pension transfers could be blocked or paused by a system of ‘flags’ under plans to clamp down on scammers (Gareth Fuller/PA)

UK and World

New flag system proposed to tackle pension fraud

APP scams happen when someone is tricked into transferring money directly into a fraudster’s bank account (PA)

UK and World

More than two-thirds of authorised bank transfer scams start online – UK Finance

Financial firms will have to put themselves in customers’ shoes and make sure they are acting in their best interests under proposals from the Financial Conduct Authority (Tim Goode/PA)

UK and World

New duty proposed for financial firms to give stronger consumer protections

Poundland owner Pepco has announced stock market float plans (Pepco/PA)

UK and World

Poundland owner valued at £4.3bn in stock market float

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