Smart thinking encourages innovation
A HOLYWOOD-based agency was the only consultancy in Northern Ireland to feature in a top agency poll recently compiled by PRWeek. This is the second year in a row that the PR and content agency, Smarts Communicate has featured in PRWeek’s Top 150 rankings, having moved up eight places to 58 it remains the...
Receptionist of the Year winners
NORTHERN Ireland Hotels Federation recently hosted its annual Hotel Receptionist of the Year awards ceremony. Held in the Killyhevlin Lakeside Hotel & Lodges almost 80 entrants from Northern Ireland’s top venues were competing for gold in the various categories at the gala event. Commenting on the interest Ciaran O’Neill, President of NI Hotels Federation said:...
Community investment packs a punch
THE search is on to find Northern Ireland’s most deserving community groups. Demonstrating its ongoing commitment to communities across Northern Ireland with the Lidl Community Works initiative, supermarket group Lidl is this year offering £6,000 in funding to local groups and large scale projects through each of its 38 stores across the province. Since the...
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Did you get hacked? The recent cyber-attack on the NHS and a host of other organisations around the world has been mooted as the most widespread and effective yet. But it would appear that title will be short lived because news reports would suggest that WannaCry is the first of many major cyber-attacks we’ll come...
First Education & Employment Extravaganza for North West
A FREE festival designed to inspire people in the North West to make the connection from Education to Employability (E2E), will be held at Ebrington Square, Derry/Londonderry later this month. The E2E festival, the first of its kind for the region, is a partnership delivery by North West Regional College with Derry City and Strabane...
New Agri-Food Centre
ULSTER University Business School has announced the setting up of an Agri-food Business Development Centre. The aim of the centre is to provide sector specific support through the promotion of agri-food business education, research and innovation. Professor Mark Durkin, Executive Dean of Ulster University Business School said: “The agri-food industry is Northern Ireland’s key indigenous...
Alistair McCarlie
Role: Senior Master Company: Stena Superfast VII, Stena Line Track Record: An ability to stay calm and make steadfast decisions are crucial to Alistair McCarlie’s role at sea as senior master with Stena Line. HOW I BECAME A SENIOR MASTER Give a brief outline of your career to date. I have thoroughly enjoyed my career...
Michael O’Regan – Placement Blog
Name – Michael O’Regan Company – Fenix Solutions Ltd Role – Marketing Executive Degree – BSC (Hons) Marketing A typical day in placement is… A typical day at Fenix consists of a morning discussion about the day’s tasks and how it relates to our long term objectives. From there, my day largely consists of creating...
Catherine McCooey – Placement Blog
Name – Catherine McCooey Company – Titanic Foundation Ltd. Role – Communications Assistant Degree – BSc Public Relations 1) A typical day in placement is… There was no typical day while I was on my Ulster University placement! No one day was the same. I think that’s what I enjoyed the most. From the planning,...
Andrew Woodside – Placement Blog
Name – Andrew Woodside Company – Irish FA Role – Referees Analyst/Performance Analyst Degree – Sport Theory and Practice A typical day on placement is watching full football games, either at senior level or a grassroots level, and picking out ‘Key Match Incidents’ such as cautions, dismissals, offsides etc. With grassroots games I am watching...