Tourism Ireland invited thirty-seven leading British coach and group tour operators to Northern Ireland last week, for a day of intense meetings with local tourism providers. Within that group, an impressive twenty-three companies were visiting Northern Ireland for the first time – including Owens Travelmaster Holidays, Country Travelers and Springwood Events and Initiatives. The event [...]
Uachtarán Chumann Lúthchleas Gael, Criostóir Ó Cuana along with Micheál Martin, T.D. and Minister for Foreign Affairs today officially launched the Asian Gaelic Games 2010 in Croke Park ahead of the 15th annual games which will be held in Hong Kong on September 25th and 26th 2010. Over 620 players are confirmed to participate [...]
MEPs in Strasbourg have requested a moratorium on the full implementation of an upcoming EU law on the postal services, amid concerns that it could cause significant job losses in the sector. The European directive due to come into force on 1st January 2011 would liberalise the postal market throughout the bloc, but MEPs want [...]
To coincide with this year’s European Heritage Days on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 September, Enniskillen Castle Museums is asking the people of Fermanagh to bring along items relating to local and national history from 1910 – 1930. This was a period of immense importance with – the Home Rule movement, the Ulster Covenant, World [...]
The Football Association of Ireland today reconfirmed, following its AGM last month, that sales of Vantage seats, including sponsor commitments have surpassed 6,300. At the recent match against Andorra the number of Vantage seats occupied on premium level was 6,900 and the overall attendance at the match against Andorra, the bottom seeds in the group, was [...]
SDLP Strabane councillor Eugene McMenamin has said a security alert in Strabane on Thursday morning defies logic and has only succeeded in disrupting businesses and traffic through a main arterial route of the town. Speaking from the scene, Mr McMenamin said: “It’s caused quite a bit of confusion and disruption and immediately, we have [...]
Bundoran Town Council this week barred the public and the press from a meeting this week because a woman was wearing a T-Shirt with a graphic equaliser, leading members to believe she was recording the proceedings. Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and Sinn Fein councillors all agreed that the meeting be held in committee. The woman [...]
Justin Kilcullen, director of Trócaire launched a new book entitled The Search for Justice. Trócaire: A History in the Diocesan Pastoral Centre, Cathedral Square, Letterkenny this week. The Search for Justice. Trócaire: A History tells the story of the organisation through personal accounts from Trócaire staff and partners.
Ten Airtricity League and FAI Ford Cup fixtures will be broadcast live on RTÉ Two Television as the season enters its final stages, beginning with this Friday’s top of the table clash between St. Patrick’s Athletic and Shamrock Rovers at Richmond Park (kick-off 7.35pm). RTÉ Sport will broadcast ten Airtricity League FAI Ford Cup [...]
Martin McGuinness has revealed he made a Donegal deathbed visit to the priest suspected of the 1972 Claudy bombing, but that the priest neither indicated that he was responsible for it and that he had no idea if the Catholic priest had been a member of the IRA.
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has condemned the Government for its dire lack of investment in education. The recent OECD’s annual Education at a Glance report has claimed that Ireland spent just 4.7% of its income on education in 2007.
MEPs have voted on a report which calls on the European Commission to put forward proposals for new laws to limit dominant market positions at all stages of the food supply chain – from the producers, through the food processing industry, to retailers. MEPs are calling for an improvement in price transparency and measures to be [...]
SDLP East Derry representative Cllr Thomas Conway said he strongly backs moves by party colleagues on Limavady Council to add townland names to road signs in the district. He said: “We did this in the Derry council area a few years back and it has been highly successful, winning the support of ratepayers for [...]
The OECD’s annual educational report underlines once more the “compelling evidence of the economic and social benefits of education”. It states that investing in education “is an essential investment for developing the long-run growth potential of countries and for responding to the fundamental changes in technology and demographics that are re-shaping labour markets”.
SDLP Fermanagh and South Tyrone MLA Tommy Gallagher has said a petrol-bomb attack at a house at Coleshill Crescent in Enniskillen on Saturday was a “cowardly” attack and appealed for anybody with information to pass it to the police. He said: “Thankfully, nobody in the family at the house was injured but it was [...]
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