Northern Ireland News for June 2001

Northern Ireland News, Jun 29, 2001
NEW HOTEL BOOSTS NORTH COAST TOURISM
THE Chairman of the Northern Ireland Tourist Board Roy Bailie has officially opened the Comfort Hotel in Portrush. The new 50-bedroom hotel complex, on the site of the former Northern Counties Hotel,...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 29, 2001
THE EAGLES ARE COMING TO TOWN
THE Eagles are set to play to the largest crowd ever seen at Stormont on 29th June. The world’s most successful recording act landed in Belfast on Friday morning in time for a sound check before prep...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 29, 2001
COOPER ATTEMPTS TO UNSEAT GILDERNEW
ULSTER Unionist James Cooper has commenced a legal battle in an attempt to unseat new Sinn Fein MP Michelle Gildernew. The case being brought before the High Court in Belfast claims that a ballot box...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 29, 2001
SOUTH BELFAST REGENERATION STRATEGY LAUNCHED
THE level of social need that actually exists in South Belfast can sometimes be masked by the perception of some of its more affluent areas, the Minister for Social Development, Maurice Morrow, has sa...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 29, 2001
POLICE TREAT BOMB ATTACKS AS SECTARIAN
POLICE are treating a nail bomb attack on a house in South Belfast just after midnight on June 29 as sectarian. A woman sleeping upstairs escaped unharmed when the device was thrown through the livin...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 29, 2001
BOOKLET CELEBRATES NI'S INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE
NORTHERN Ireland’s Industrial Heritage was celebrated at the launch of the National Trust’s latest education resource booklet ‘Our Industrial Heritage’. The resource book for teachers highlights thre...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 29, 2001
SPORTS MINISTER SEEKS ROADS FUNDING
SPORTS Minister, Michael McGimpsey, is confident that he will obtain extra funding to make Northern Ireland’s road circuits safer for motorcycle racing. The Minister was visiting the County Antrim vi...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 29, 2001
ASSEMBLY HAS MAJOR INFLUENCE ON INVESTMENT
COLLAPSE of the assembly could adversely effect business investment in Northern Ireland, business advisors, warn PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The results of their latest survey suggest that devolved...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 29, 2001
HUMAN RIGHTS AT THE HEART OF THE RUC
RUC Chief Constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan has pledged continuing commitment to the importance of human rights as a core philosophy in the development of policing in Northern Ireland. Speaking at the la...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 29, 2001
FIRST MINISTER SET TO STEP DOWN
FOLLOWING downbeat assessments of the meetings on Friday between Tony Blair, Bertie Ahern and the main Northern Ireland’s political party leaders, discussions are under way to examine possible strateg...
Recruitment News, Jun 29, 2001
EQUALITY COMMISSION LAUNCH GOOD PRACTICE GUIDE
EDUCATION Minister, Martin McGuinness, has launched the Equality Commission’s Good Practice Guide on Racial Equality in Education. Speaking at the launch at St Mary’s University College, Belfast, Mr ...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 28, 2001
PREMIERS PESSIMISTIC ABOUT WAY FORWARD
THE British Government does not think it can do enough to prevent David Trimble resigning as Northern Ireland’s First Minister. The British Prime Minister Tony Blair flew into Hillsborough on Thursda...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 28, 2001
PUBLIC FIND POLICE ‘HELPFUL AND POLITE’
A SURVEY on the public’s attitude to the police has revealed that around three quarters of people in Northern Ireland feel that the police are polite and helpful when dealing with ordinary policing pr...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 28, 2001
FIRST ‘ONE’ OF ITS KIND CENTRE OPENS
THOUSANDS of people are set to benefit from a radical new ‘ONE’ service which will deliver benefits, training and employment to Dungannon and its surrounding districts. The ONE service will, for the ...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 28, 2001
PARADES COMMISSION PUBLISH ANNUAL REPORT
THE Parades Commission has published its annual report and pledged to safeguard the ‘parading tradition’ in Northern Ireland. The report revealed that the Commission saw a future for parades and woul...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 28, 2001
HOUSES EVACUATED AFTER PIPE BOMB FINDS
IN County Armagh 20 people had to move out of their homes after a pipe bomb was discovered at the rear of a house in Portadown. The device, discovered in Westland Road around 10.30pm on Wednesday nig...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 28, 2001
CLARKE OPENS QUEST FOR IRISH WIN
DARREN Clarke's bid to win this year’s Irish Open in Cork suffered a severe blow towards the end of his first round at Fota Island. Clarke, who is aiming to become the first Irish winner since 1982, ...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 28, 2001
NEW SOFTWARE COMPANY TO PROVIDE 165 NEW JOBS
A £11.3 million investment by Meridio Ltd, a new international technology company, will provide a total of 165 new jobs, 45 of which are already in place, in Belfast. The announcement marks a major n...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 28, 2001
SOCIAL SECURITY AGENCY SCRUTINISED
A Northern Ireland Audit Office Report has revealed that benefit fraud and mistakes in social security payments in the province have hit £22 million. The shocking statistic was revealed by the Assemb...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 28, 2001
MINISTER LAUNCHES ENTERPRISE NORTHERN IRELAND
ENTERPRISE Northern Ireland (ENI), the new umbrella organisation for Northern Ireland’s local enterprise agencies, was launched in Belfast on Thursday June 28. Speaking at the event, Sir Reg Empey, M...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 28, 2001
EQUALITY COMMISSION REPORTS ON RACIAL PREJUDICE
A PACKAGE aimed at tackling racial prejudice in schools was launched by the Education Minister Martin McGuinness at St Mary’s University Belfast on Thursday June 28. The report, called the ‘Good Prac...
Recruitment News, Jun 28, 2001
NEW SOFTWARE COMPANY TO PROVIDE 165 NEW JOBS IN BELFAST
AN £11.3 million investment by Meridio Ltd, a new international technology company, will provide 165 new jobs, 45 of which are already in place, in Belfast. The announcement marks a major new documen...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 27, 2001
NEW BELFAST HEALTH AND SAFETY CENTRE OPENS
THE official opening of the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland's new Information and Advice Centre in Belfast took place on Wednesday, June 27. Speaking at the launch, Reg Empey Ministe...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 27, 2001
NI REPRESENTED AT TOP BIOTECH EVENT
THE expertise of Northern Ireland's universities, teaching hospitals and health technology companies was on show at a major biotechnology event in the US. Held in San Diego, Califorina, the Internati...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 27, 2001
NI COMES NEAR END OF FMD CRISIS
THE Agriculture Minister Bríd Rodgers told Assembly members on Tuesday that Northern Ireland was coming to the end of the threat of foot-and-mouth disease. Speaking to the Assembly Mrs Rodgers said a...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 27, 2001
FURTHER TENSION IN NORTH BELFAST
TENSIONS in north Belfast continue to run high after 100 protestant residents blocked a road on Tuesday evening and a shot was fired into a house in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Both inciden...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 27, 2001
CREATIVITY BOOSTED BY £3M KICK START
THE Culture, Arts and Leisure Minister, Michael McGimpsey highlighted the advantages of a unified regional Government when he announced that £3 million would be available to help fuel the drive to unl...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 27, 2001
ORANGE ORDER URGED TO TALK TO RESIDENTS
FOLLOWING a major talks initiative on contentious parades in Londonderry between the protestant Royal Black Institution and the nationalist Bogside Residents Group, the Orange Order have come under in...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 27, 2001
REPORT INTO CHILD ABUSE CALLS FOR WATCHDOG
NORTHERN Ireland Assembly members unanimously passed a recommendation to nominate a commissioner for children that would protect and defend the rights of vulnerable young people. The intention to app...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 27, 2001
EMPEY OUTLINES PRINCIPLES AT HEART OF INI
CREATIVITY and innovation must be the guiding principles of Northern Ireland’s future economic policy and central to the work of Invest Northern Ireland (INI), the new economic development agency, Sir...