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REGIONAL HUBS SIGNAL NEW ERA FOR CIVIL SERVICE – MURPHY

Finance Minister Conor Murphy has announced plans for a number of new civil service regional hubs. Commenting on the economic and environmental benefits, Finance Minister Conor Murphy said: “These regional hubs will transform how civil servants work – enabling them to be based closer to home, reducing travel time and lowering carbon emissions while importantly […]

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LYONS ANNOUNCES £1MILLION MICRO FOOD BUSINESS SCHEME

A £1million capital grant scheme to help existing micro food and drink manufacturing businesses to upscale production to secure new markets for their products will open in March, Rural Affairs Minster Gordon Lyons MLA has announced. The aim of the scheme is to enable eligible businesses that are processing primary agricultural or horticultural produce to […]

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Try Yoga with Paddy to Beat the Lockdown Blues

Covid 19 has engulfed us into a lockdown of boredom and procrastination. However a lot of businesses are now offering the opportunity to avail of their services via zoom which looks like the new way of doing things moving forward. Yoga with Paddy a business headed up by Newry man Patrick Doran aims to provide […]

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INNOVATION IS VITAL FOR ECONOMIC RECOVERY: DODDS

Innovation is crucial for Northern Ireland’s economic recovery and to our future success locally and globally. That was the key message from Economy Minister Diane Dodds after she began a series of meeting with senior leaders from partner companies in the Belfast City Region Deal. The Minister’s first meeting focussed on the progress of two […]

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LABOUR MARKET STATISTICS

The labour market statistics have been published by the Northern Ireland Statistics & Research Agency. Almost 10,500 redundancies proposed since March 11,000 collective redundancies were proposed in the twelve months to the end of December, more than double the number recorded in the previous twelve months. Almost 10,500 were proposed in the ten months since […]

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Matt D’Arcy Irish Whiskey toasts £100,000 launch sales

The once world-famous Whiskey brand, D’Arcy’s Old Irish Whiskey, has enjoyed a spectacular return after a century with launch retail sales topping £100,000 in the Christmas trading period. Matt D’Arcy and Co was first established in 1817 in Newry, gaining a global reputation, before closing in 1918.   The brand has now been revived by local […]

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DODDS WELCOMES DECISION TO EXTEND FURLOUGH UNTIL APRIL

Economy Minister Diane Dodds today welcomed the decision by Chancellor Rishi Sunak to extend the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme by another month until the end of April 2021. The Minister said: “I welcome the Chancellor’s decision to extend the Job Retention Scheme to the end of April. It has been my consistent position that the furlough […]

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ECONOMY MINISTER OUTLINES IMPORTANT STEPS BUSINESSES SHOULD TAKE

Economy Minister Diane Dodds has outlined basic steps businesses can take to prepare for the end of the transition period. A recent survey by the NI Business Brexit Working Group found fewer than one in five businesses were prepared for 1 January. The Minister said: “This has been a time of great uncertainty for businesses and […]