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Northern Ireland News for December 2001 : Page 3
Business News, Dec 17, 2001
Jobs axe to fall at Airbus
Airbus is reportedly seeking volunteers for redundancies and proposing a shorter working week in a bid to avoid huge lay-offs because of falling demand for aircraft. Production of Airbus parts in the...
Jobs axe to fall at Airbus
Airbus is reportedly seeking volunteers for redundancies and proposing a shorter working week in a bid to avoid huge lay-offs because of falling demand for aircraft. Production of Airbus parts in the...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 17, 2001
Aico to expand business into Northern Ireland
Leading electrical distributor Aico Ltd has expanded its operations to include Northern Ireland. The company is now making its full range of products available throughout all the electrical wholesale...
Aico to expand business into Northern Ireland
Leading electrical distributor Aico Ltd has expanded its operations to include Northern Ireland. The company is now making its full range of products available throughout all the electrical wholesale...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 17, 2001
Adams to unveil hunger strike monument in Cuba
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams and a delegation of party members have begun a three-day visit to Cuba. During the controversial visit Mr Adams is to meet Cuban leader Fidel Castro, and unveil a plaq...
Adams to unveil hunger strike monument in Cuba
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams and a delegation of party members have begun a three-day visit to Cuba. During the controversial visit Mr Adams is to meet Cuban leader Fidel Castro, and unveil a plaq...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 14, 2001
Ombudsman and Chief Constable rift is ‘not irreparable’
The Northern Ireland Chief Constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan has said relations with the Police Ombudsman have been damaged but not irreparably. He said in a BBC programme: “I have known the Police Ombud...
Ombudsman and Chief Constable rift is ‘not irreparable’
The Northern Ireland Chief Constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan has said relations with the Police Ombudsman have been damaged but not irreparably. He said in a BBC programme: “I have known the Police Ombud...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 14, 2001
Jobs losses in separate Larne and Saintfield businesses
Insilco Technologies, which makes cables for telecoms, is to axe 44 jobs at its factory in Larne, County Antrim following a recent slump in business. East Antrim DUP assembly member Roger Hutchinson ...
Jobs losses in separate Larne and Saintfield businesses
Insilco Technologies, which makes cables for telecoms, is to axe 44 jobs at its factory in Larne, County Antrim following a recent slump in business. East Antrim DUP assembly member Roger Hutchinson ...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 14, 2001
200 jobs to go at Short Brothers before Christmas
Bombardier Aerospace have issued more than 100 workers at Short Brothers in Belfast with compulsory redundancies on Friday, December 14. In addition over 90 employees will be released on voluntary re...
200 jobs to go at Short Brothers before Christmas
Bombardier Aerospace have issued more than 100 workers at Short Brothers in Belfast with compulsory redundancies on Friday, December 14. In addition over 90 employees will be released on voluntary re...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 14, 2001
Positive university research ratings welcomed
The Stormont Minister for Employment and Learning has congratulated both Queen’s University of Belfast and the University of Ulster on their performance in the 2001 UK-wide Research Assessment Exercis...
Positive university research ratings welcomed
The Stormont Minister for Employment and Learning has congratulated both Queen’s University of Belfast and the University of Ulster on their performance in the 2001 UK-wide Research Assessment Exercis...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 14, 2001
Printing firm set to close in New Year
A specialist Belfast printing company owned by Ulster Weavers is due to close early in the New Year. Dunmurry Print, which was bought by Ulster Weavers 17 years ago, blamed the closure on falling dem...
Printing firm set to close in New Year
A specialist Belfast printing company owned by Ulster Weavers is due to close early in the New Year. Dunmurry Print, which was bought by Ulster Weavers 17 years ago, blamed the closure on falling dem...
Business News, Dec 14, 2001
Trading Standards offers advice on dual pricing
DETI Trading Standards Service (TSS) has offered advice to retailers who are planning to accept the euro, as well as sterling, from January 1, 2002. The TSS said in all circumstances the sterling pri...
Trading Standards offers advice on dual pricing
DETI Trading Standards Service (TSS) has offered advice to retailers who are planning to accept the euro, as well as sterling, from January 1, 2002. The TSS said in all circumstances the sterling pri...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 14, 2001
Plans underway to house Sinn Féin in Commons
Plans for Sinn Fein's MPs to be allowed to use facilities at Westminster, in spite of their refusal to sit in the Commons, are to go before Parliament. Sinn Féin are currently denied access to office...
Plans underway to house Sinn Féin in Commons
Plans for Sinn Fein's MPs to be allowed to use facilities at Westminster, in spite of their refusal to sit in the Commons, are to go before Parliament. Sinn Féin are currently denied access to office...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 14, 2001
Farren appointed Finance Minister in assembly reshuffle
The SDLP has appointed Dr Sean Farren as Northern Ireland Finance Minister as a replacement for Mark Durkan following his election as Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister in November. As a result o...
Farren appointed Finance Minister in assembly reshuffle
The SDLP has appointed Dr Sean Farren as Northern Ireland Finance Minister as a replacement for Mark Durkan following his election as Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister in November. As a result o...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 14, 2001
Joint treaty heralds closer policing links
A treaty to provide closer links between police services in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic is to be signed in January 2002. Security Minister Jane Kennedy revealed details of the Intergovern...
Joint treaty heralds closer policing links
A treaty to provide closer links between police services in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic is to be signed in January 2002. Security Minister Jane Kennedy revealed details of the Intergovern...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 14, 2001
Primary Health care arrangements ‘progressing well’
The Minister for Health, Social Services and Public Safety Bairbre de Brún has said she is encouraged by the progress so far to establish the new arrangements for primary care. In October this year, ...
Primary Health care arrangements ‘progressing well’
The Minister for Health, Social Services and Public Safety Bairbre de Brún has said she is encouraged by the progress so far to establish the new arrangements for primary care. In October this year, ...
Business News, Dec 14, 2001
Go to pull Scottish flights from Dublin
Budget airline Go is set to pull out of its routes from Glasgow and Edinburgh to Dublin following stiff competition from fellow budget airlines, Easyjet and Ryanair. Go now plan to use the aircraft f...
Go to pull Scottish flights from Dublin
Budget airline Go is set to pull out of its routes from Glasgow and Edinburgh to Dublin following stiff competition from fellow budget airlines, Easyjet and Ryanair. Go now plan to use the aircraft f...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 14, 2001
Exercise is the key to good health
Minister for Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Ms Bairbre de Brún, has stressed the important role of physical activity in promoting good health. Speaking after publication of the headline r...
Exercise is the key to good health
Minister for Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Ms Bairbre de Brún, has stressed the important role of physical activity in promoting good health. Speaking after publication of the headline r...
Business News, Dec 14, 2001
Local traders prepare for Euro switchover
Northern Ireland Euro Preparations Forum has said that local businesses are preparing well for the Republic’s change over to the Euro on January 1 2002. However, the statement contradicts recent repo...
Local traders prepare for Euro switchover
Northern Ireland Euro Preparations Forum has said that local businesses are preparing well for the Republic’s change over to the Euro on January 1 2002. However, the statement contradicts recent repo...
Business News, Dec 14, 2001
Economic climate brings about local partnership
Todd Architects have invested in a new Autodesk Architectural Desktop system from cadcoevolution to help it speed up its design processes. The company has experienced a huge increase in business over...
Economic climate brings about local partnership
Todd Architects have invested in a new Autodesk Architectural Desktop system from cadcoevolution to help it speed up its design processes. The company has experienced a huge increase in business over...
Business News, Dec 14, 2001
Few British consumers will rein in Christmas spending
A new survey by market analyst, Mintel has revealed that few people across the UK have plans to keep a check on their Christmas spending this year despite concerns about economic downturn and fears ov...
Few British consumers will rein in Christmas spending
A new survey by market analyst, Mintel has revealed that few people across the UK have plans to keep a check on their Christmas spending this year despite concerns about economic downturn and fears ov...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 13, 2001
Survey finds half of people in NI in good health
A survey investigating the mental and physical wellbeing of people in Northern Ireland has shown just over half of people interviewed have said their health is good. The Northern Ireland Statistics a...
Survey finds half of people in NI in good health
A survey investigating the mental and physical wellbeing of people in Northern Ireland has shown just over half of people interviewed have said their health is good. The Northern Ireland Statistics a...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 13, 2001
Flanagan threatens legal action over O'Loan’s report
The Ombudsman’s report which questioned the judgement and leadership of Chief Constable during the investigation into the 1998 Omagh Bomb has been dismissed by Sir Ronnie Flanagan as “grossly unfair a...
Flanagan threatens legal action over O'Loan’s report
The Ombudsman’s report which questioned the judgement and leadership of Chief Constable during the investigation into the 1998 Omagh Bomb has been dismissed by Sir Ronnie Flanagan as “grossly unfair a...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 13, 2001
NI leaders in first meeting with British Prime Minister
The First and Deputy First Ministers of the Northern Ireland assembly have met with the British Prime Minister. Held in Downing Street the meeting is the first in a series of joint talks centring on ...
NI leaders in first meeting with British Prime Minister
The First and Deputy First Ministers of the Northern Ireland assembly have met with the British Prime Minister. Held in Downing Street the meeting is the first in a series of joint talks centring on ...
Business News, Dec 13, 2001
Local firms scoop ‘Innovation West Awards’
Thirty-six local business organisations from Tyrone and Fermanagh have joined the super-league of business achievers, winning prestigious ‘Innovation West’ awards, the equivalent of the local ‘busines...
Local firms scoop ‘Innovation West Awards’
Thirty-six local business organisations from Tyrone and Fermanagh have joined the super-league of business achievers, winning prestigious ‘Innovation West’ awards, the equivalent of the local ‘busines...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 13, 2001
ICL rationalisation programme to affect 450 local jobs
IT solutions company, ICL has announced a rationalisation programme across its UK workforce, which will see reductions of up to 1,500 jobs. As a result of these plans around 450 people in ICL’s Fujit...
ICL rationalisation programme to affect 450 local jobs
IT solutions company, ICL has announced a rationalisation programme across its UK workforce, which will see reductions of up to 1,500 jobs. As a result of these plans around 450 people in ICL’s Fujit...
Business News, Dec 13, 2001
CIM international chair goes to local man
The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) has seen a major shake-up in its governance structure, driven mainly by growing internationalism, with its New International Chairman coming from Northern Ir...
CIM international chair goes to local man
The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) has seen a major shake-up in its governance structure, driven mainly by growing internationalism, with its New International Chairman coming from Northern Ir...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 13, 2001
Westfield plan to double the size of CastleCourt Centre
Australian shopping centre barons Westfield have submitted a planning application to more than double the size of CastleCourt shopping centre in Belfast. Westfield, who jointly own the shopping centr...
Westfield plan to double the size of CastleCourt Centre
Australian shopping centre barons Westfield have submitted a planning application to more than double the size of CastleCourt shopping centre in Belfast. Westfield, who jointly own the shopping centr...
Business News, Dec 13, 2001
Airline passenger numbers still affected by September 11
BAA has revealed that passenger numbers at their seven UK airports were 10.6 per cent lower last month than in November 2000. BAA, whose airports include London's Gatwick, Heathrow and Stansted, beli...
Airline passenger numbers still affected by September 11
BAA has revealed that passenger numbers at their seven UK airports were 10.6 per cent lower last month than in November 2000. BAA, whose airports include London's Gatwick, Heathrow and Stansted, beli...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 13, 2001
Man arrested following pipe bomb attack in Coleraine
Police have arrested a man in connection with the pipe bomb attack in Articlave in Coleraine. A family of five escaped injury when a pipe bomb exploded outside their house in the Wood End area of Art...
Man arrested following pipe bomb attack in Coleraine
Police have arrested a man in connection with the pipe bomb attack in Articlave in Coleraine. A family of five escaped injury when a pipe bomb exploded outside their house in the Wood End area of Art...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 13, 2001
Children’s art on the cards at Stormont
The winners of a children’s competition to design this year’s official Stormont Christmas card have been welcomed by ministers from the Northern Ireland Executive. Nine young people were selected as ...
Children’s art on the cards at Stormont
The winners of a children’s competition to design this year’s official Stormont Christmas card have been welcomed by ministers from the Northern Ireland Executive. Nine young people were selected as ...
Business News, Dec 13, 2001
Signs of tourism growth reported in Derry City
Tourism enquiries at Derry’s Tourist Information Centre have increased by 5 per cent during 2001, according to figures published in the annual report of the Derry Visitor and Convention Bureau. Speak...
Signs of tourism growth reported in Derry City
Tourism enquiries at Derry’s Tourist Information Centre have increased by 5 per cent during 2001, according to figures published in the annual report of the Derry Visitor and Convention Bureau. Speak...
Business News, Dec 13, 2001
Online bank turns profit for first time
Europe's largest internet-only bank, Egg has revealed that in November it turned a profit for the first time. The news meet targets set in June last year when the bank was floated. The online bank cr...
Online bank turns profit for first time
Europe's largest internet-only bank, Egg has revealed that in November it turned a profit for the first time. The news meet targets set in June last year when the bank was floated. The online bank cr...
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Northern Ireland WeatherToday:A showery start with outbreaks most frequent north of Lough Neagh and through the morning, before dwindling during the afternoon as the northwest breezes ease and brighter spells of weak sunshine prosper. Maximum temperature 8 °C.Tonight:A dry night, save for a few light showers around the coasts, with prolonged clear spells and light winds bringing a frosty dawn for many in central and southern parts. Minimum temperature -3 °C.
