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Northern Ireland News for June 2002 : Page 2
Northern Ireland News, Jun 27, 2002
Consilium secures IT partner contract
Consilium Technologies has announced the first UK local authority contract for delivering a portfolio of core software applications exclusively via the Application Service Provision (ASP) model. This...
Consilium secures IT partner contract
Consilium Technologies has announced the first UK local authority contract for delivering a portfolio of core software applications exclusively via the Application Service Provision (ASP) model. This...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 27, 2002
Body identified as missing German backpacker
Irish police have confirmed that the body of a woman washed ashore in County Donegal is that of missing German tourist Constancze Czerwinske. The 22-year-old’s family flew into Donegal yesterday and ...
Body identified as missing German backpacker
Irish police have confirmed that the body of a woman washed ashore in County Donegal is that of missing German tourist Constancze Czerwinske. The 22-year-old’s family flew into Donegal yesterday and ...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 26, 2002
Pro-Agreement parties evaluate process
Northern Ireland’s politicians have concluded round-table talks aimed at bolstering the crisis-hit Good Friday Agreement. Talks chaired by the Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid and Irish Foreign M...
Pro-Agreement parties evaluate process
Northern Ireland’s politicians have concluded round-table talks aimed at bolstering the crisis-hit Good Friday Agreement. Talks chaired by the Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid and Irish Foreign M...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 26, 2002
Minister allocates £2m to reduce primary class sizes
Education Minister Martin McGuinness has announced a £2.1 million allocation of funds for the employment of 84 teachers under the class size initiative, which aims to reduce class sizes. The funding ...
Minister allocates £2m to reduce primary class sizes
Education Minister Martin McGuinness has announced a £2.1 million allocation of funds for the employment of 84 teachers under the class size initiative, which aims to reduce class sizes. The funding ...
Business News, Jun 26, 2002
Lifelong learning key to social inclusion: Hanna
Lifelong learning has a major role to play in overcoming social exclusion, Carmel Hanna, Minister for Employment and Learning, has said. The Minister was speaking at Queen’s University, Belfast, at a...
Lifelong learning key to social inclusion: Hanna
Lifelong learning has a major role to play in overcoming social exclusion, Carmel Hanna, Minister for Employment and Learning, has said. The Minister was speaking at Queen’s University, Belfast, at a...
Business News, Jun 26, 2002
NI football legend tees off corporate golf event
Profectus Special Events has announced plans of their first corporate hospitality package, the Norman Whiteside Golf Classic. Some of Ireland's most famous footballers will be lining up to face each ...
NI football legend tees off corporate golf event
Profectus Special Events has announced plans of their first corporate hospitality package, the Norman Whiteside Golf Classic. Some of Ireland's most famous footballers will be lining up to face each ...
Business News, Jun 26, 2002
Manchester police collar best practice award
Martin Bell has presented the top accolade at the 2002 TNT Modernising Government Partnership Awards to Greater Manchester Police in a line up that featured well-known names from across the public sec...
Manchester police collar best practice award
Martin Bell has presented the top accolade at the 2002 TNT Modernising Government Partnership Awards to Greater Manchester Police in a line up that featured well-known names from across the public sec...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 26, 2002
Family of missing tourist to arrive in Donegal
The family of a missing German tourist who disappeared in County Donegal last week are expected to arrive in the area today. They have been asked by Gardaí to help them identify a female body that wa...
Family of missing tourist to arrive in Donegal
The family of a missing German tourist who disappeared in County Donegal last week are expected to arrive in the area today. They have been asked by Gardaí to help them identify a female body that wa...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 26, 2002
UUP launch scathing attack on Health Minister
An Ulster Unionist assembly member has launched a scathing attack on the Health Minister Bairbre de Brún. Strangford Assembly member Tom Hamilton labelled Ms de Brún as “a second rate Minister reduci...
UUP launch scathing attack on Health Minister
An Ulster Unionist assembly member has launched a scathing attack on the Health Minister Bairbre de Brún. Strangford Assembly member Tom Hamilton labelled Ms de Brún as “a second rate Minister reduci...
Business News, Jun 26, 2002
New regulations to crack down on "fat cat" pay
New regulations have been announced by Trade Secretary Patricia Hewitt designed to crack down on "fat cat" pay deals in the private sector. Under the plans shareholders will have the right to vote an...
New regulations to crack down on "fat cat" pay
New regulations have been announced by Trade Secretary Patricia Hewitt designed to crack down on "fat cat" pay deals in the private sector. Under the plans shareholders will have the right to vote an...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 26, 2002
Telegraph owners hit back over ballot figures
The owners of the Belfast Telegraph, Independent News and Media (INM), have hit back at the NUJ over figures they published for the strike ballot held last week. The NUJ had claimed that almost three...
Telegraph owners hit back over ballot figures
The owners of the Belfast Telegraph, Independent News and Media (INM), have hit back at the NUJ over figures they published for the strike ballot held last week. The NUJ had claimed that almost three...
Business News, Jun 26, 2002
Empey hails 'talent' of NI workforce
Sir Reg Empey, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Investment, has praised the "talent" of the north's workforce in assisting in the success of the Halifax's Cromac Woods call centre. The Minister co...
Empey hails 'talent' of NI workforce
Sir Reg Empey, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Investment, has praised the "talent" of the north's workforce in assisting in the success of the Halifax's Cromac Woods call centre. The Minister co...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 26, 2002
Chief Constable Orde steps away from collusion probe
The publishing of the Stevens’ report, an investigation by the metropolitan police into collusion between members of the RUC and Loyalist paramilitaries, has been delayed until the autumn. Sir John S...
Chief Constable Orde steps away from collusion probe
The publishing of the Stevens’ report, an investigation by the metropolitan police into collusion between members of the RUC and Loyalist paramilitaries, has been delayed until the autumn. Sir John S...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 26, 2002
Durkan reveals vision for ‘New Nationalism’
A united Ireland must be built upon the foundations and principles of the Good Friday Agreement, nationalist SDLP leader Mark Durkan has said. Addressing party members at the launch of the new SDLP l...
Durkan reveals vision for ‘New Nationalism’
A united Ireland must be built upon the foundations and principles of the Good Friday Agreement, nationalist SDLP leader Mark Durkan has said. Addressing party members at the launch of the new SDLP l...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 26, 2002
Commissioners visit IRA memorial in Belleek
Members of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission have inspected an IRA memorial today in County Fermanagh. They paid a visit to a stone memorial dedicated to IRA volunteers in Belleek and met ...
Commissioners visit IRA memorial in Belleek
Members of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission have inspected an IRA memorial today in County Fermanagh. They paid a visit to a stone memorial dedicated to IRA volunteers in Belleek and met ...
Business News, Jun 26, 2002
NI house prices amongst fastest growing in UK
House prices in Northern Ireland have been growing faster than anywhere else in the UK outside London and the Home Counties, according to business advisors PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). According to ...
NI house prices amongst fastest growing in UK
House prices in Northern Ireland have been growing faster than anywhere else in the UK outside London and the Home Counties, according to business advisors PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). According to ...
Business News, Jun 26, 2002
Business leaders help budding entrepreneurs
Tomorrow’s businessmen and women from Castle High School in north Belfast had the opportunity to fine-tune their entrepreneurial skills during a day-long Sentinus Business Insight Conference held at t...
Business leaders help budding entrepreneurs
Tomorrow’s businessmen and women from Castle High School in north Belfast had the opportunity to fine-tune their entrepreneurial skills during a day-long Sentinus Business Insight Conference held at t...
Business News, Jun 26, 2002
Employment Minister praises work of Industrial Court
The Industrial Court, and in particular its new adjudication remit in recognition rights for trade unions, has been hailed by Employment Minister Carmel Hanna as providing a "sound foundation for the ...
Employment Minister praises work of Industrial Court
The Industrial Court, and in particular its new adjudication remit in recognition rights for trade unions, has been hailed by Employment Minister Carmel Hanna as providing a "sound foundation for the ...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 26, 2002
Nationalist rioters attack CCTV masts
CCTV camera masts, designed to curb the ongoing sectarian violence in north Belfast came under attack early this morning by mobs carrying blast and petrol bombs. The trouble started in Brompton Park ...
Nationalist rioters attack CCTV masts
CCTV camera masts, designed to curb the ongoing sectarian violence in north Belfast came under attack early this morning by mobs carrying blast and petrol bombs. The trouble started in Brompton Park ...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 26, 2002
Mother and son escape injury in gun attack
A mother and her 15-year-old son have escaped injury in a gun attack on their Antrim home. They were in their Renown Court house last night when two shots were fired at the front door. Both needed t...
Mother and son escape injury in gun attack
A mother and her 15-year-old son have escaped injury in a gun attack on their Antrim home. They were in their Renown Court house last night when two shots were fired at the front door. Both needed t...
Business News, Jun 25, 2002
Belfast Telegraph staff threaten strike action
Around 100 journalists within the Belfast Telegraph could go on strike over pay. In a dispute with Dublin-based owners Independent News and Media (INM), journalists have threatened strike action afte...
Belfast Telegraph staff threaten strike action
Around 100 journalists within the Belfast Telegraph could go on strike over pay. In a dispute with Dublin-based owners Independent News and Media (INM), journalists have threatened strike action afte...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 25, 2002
Female body washed ashore in County Donegal
A body has been found close to where a German tourist disappeared in County Donegal eight days ago. It is believed the female body is that of missing 22-year-old German backpacker Constanze Czerwinsk...
Female body washed ashore in County Donegal
A body has been found close to where a German tourist disappeared in County Donegal eight days ago. It is believed the female body is that of missing 22-year-old German backpacker Constanze Czerwinsk...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 25, 2002
Queen’s restructuring plan approved by ruling council
Queen's University today announced they were appointing 83 new academics and almost 90 postgraduate scholarships as part of a £84 million restructuring plan. However the university confirmed they wou...
Queen’s restructuring plan approved by ruling council
Queen's University today announced they were appointing 83 new academics and almost 90 postgraduate scholarships as part of a £84 million restructuring plan. However the university confirmed they wou...
Business News, Jun 25, 2002
Aldergrove contribution to TBI profits significant
The TBI group, which operates Belfast International, Luton and Cardiff airports, has reported a 26% rise in profits. However, the most impressive figures for the company was a 16% rise in passenger n...
Aldergrove contribution to TBI profits significant
The TBI group, which operates Belfast International, Luton and Cardiff airports, has reported a 26% rise in profits. However, the most impressive figures for the company was a 16% rise in passenger n...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 25, 2002
Man remanded in custody over biker’s death
A 21-year-old has appeared at Belfast Magistrate’s Court charged with the murder of a Scottish motorcycling champion. Paul Raymond Baird, of Beechgrove in Lisburn, is accused of murdering 49-year-old...
Man remanded in custody over biker’s death
A 21-year-old has appeared at Belfast Magistrate’s Court charged with the murder of a Scottish motorcycling champion. Paul Raymond Baird, of Beechgrove in Lisburn, is accused of murdering 49-year-old...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 25, 2002
PAC report slams ‘appalling’ level of water leakage
The assembly’s public watchdog committee has described reports that the Water Service is losing around 37% of its water, or 250 million litres per day, through leakage in its distribution system as "a...
PAC report slams ‘appalling’ level of water leakage
The assembly’s public watchdog committee has described reports that the Water Service is losing around 37% of its water, or 250 million litres per day, through leakage in its distribution system as "a...
Business News, Jun 25, 2002
CBI express concern over NI education system
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has told Education Minister, Martin McGuinness that it supports the Burns recommendations but has concerns that the education system is not giving businesse...
CBI express concern over NI education system
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has told Education Minister, Martin McGuinness that it supports the Burns recommendations but has concerns that the education system is not giving businesse...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 25, 2002
NI National Stadium a long way off says Minister
Sports Minister, Michael McGimpsey has said the time was not right to invest millions of pounds in a new stadium and that the chances of gaining the £60m needed to fund the venture were fairly remote....
NI National Stadium a long way off says Minister
Sports Minister, Michael McGimpsey has said the time was not right to invest millions of pounds in a new stadium and that the chances of gaining the £60m needed to fund the venture were fairly remote....
Business News, Jun 25, 2002
Trade Minister sets out three year economy plan
Devolution has given us the opportunity to refocus our strengths and work towards ‘Becoming a Modern Economy’, Sir Reg Empey the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Investment, said today. The Ministe...
Trade Minister sets out three year economy plan
Devolution has given us the opportunity to refocus our strengths and work towards ‘Becoming a Modern Economy’, Sir Reg Empey the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Investment, said today. The Ministe...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 25, 2002
Belfast launches cultural tourism strategy
Belfast’s bid to become a key European cultural destination was given a boost today with the launch of a local government strategy and action plan to increase tourism in Northern Ireland. The newly p...
Belfast launches cultural tourism strategy
Belfast’s bid to become a key European cultural destination was given a boost today with the launch of a local government strategy and action plan to increase tourism in Northern Ireland. The newly p...
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Northern Ireland WeatherThis Evening and Tonight:Rain clearing away east by early evening with some clear spells but a few showers likely to affect the North coast and other areas towards dawn, remaining breezy and mild overnight. Minimum temperature 9 °C.
