Northern Ireland News for June 2001 : Page 3

Northern Ireland News, Jun 22, 2001
NI BUSINESSES TOLD TO EMBRACE IT ERA OR LOSE OUT
AT the opening of a new Internet solution centre in Lisburn the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Investment, Sir Reg Empey called upon Northern Ireland’s business sector to embrace the Internet and ...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 22, 2001
US ENVOY SAYS: FUTURE OF PROVINCE RESTS WITH POLITICIANS
US special envoy Richard Haass has said that the future of the peace process in Northern Ireland is in the hands of the region’s politicians and the two governments. Mr Haass, who had earlier met wit...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 22, 2001
FURTHER NIGHT OF CLASHES IN ARDOYNE
THERE were further eruptions of violence on the streets of North Belfast on Thursday night. During the clashes 20 police officers were injured in the flashpoint area of Ardoyne as Royal Ulster Consta...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 22, 2001
CLOSE RESIGNS AS ALLIANCE PARTY DEPUTY LEADER
FOLLOWING a series of disagreements within the Alliance Party Northern Ireland leadership, Seamus Close has resigned from his position as the party’s deputy leader. Mr Close said: “Recently, I have d...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 21, 2001
MINISTER OPENS SPECIALIST ADDICTIONS UNIT IN ANTRIM
MINISTER for Health, Social Services and Public Safety Bairbre de Brún has opened a dedicated in-patient drug addictions unit at Holywell Hospital in Antrim. Performing the official opening Ms de Brú...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 21, 2001
LEARNDIRECT OFFERS E-LEARNING ANY TIME ANY PACE
ACCESS to learning at ‘any time, any pace and any where’ is now a reality for adult learners throughout Northern Ireland with the launch of learndirect. The revolutionary new e-learning network which...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 21, 2001
SECTARIAN TENSIONS ESCALATE IN NORTH BELFAST
SECTARIAN tensions in north Belfast continue to escalate after another night of violent clashes between nationalists and loyalists and the police. At times crowds of up to 600 loyalists and nationali...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 21, 2001
IRA DECOMMISSIONING ‘MAY BE RESOLVED’
A SENIOR republican source has said that the arms issue could be settled but not on British terms or by ultimatums from unionists. However, the statement which made no mention of the a timescale, lea...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 21, 2001
MODERN APPRENTICESHIP WINNER ANNOUNCED
AN 18 year old retail trainee from Newcastle has won the province’s first ever Modern Apprentice of the Year Award. During a presentation ceremony held in the Culloden Hotel, Daniel Doran was present...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 21, 2001
US ADVISOR IN LONDON FOR PEACE TALKS
THE United States special advisor on Northern Ireland met with Northern Ireland Secretary Dr John Reid in Downing Street on Thursday June 21 for talks on the current crisis. Speaking after his meetin...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 21, 2001
PRESSURE MOUNTS ON IRA TO DELIVER ON ARMS
THE IRA has come under increasing pressure from the SDLP and Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to deliver decommissioning before the end of the month. Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Seamus Mallon ...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 21, 2001
CALLS FOR CALM OVER NORTH BELFAST FLASHPOINT
DESPITE appeals for calm, violence has continued to erupt in the Catholic/Protestant interface area of Ardoyne in North Belfast. The situation worsened on Thursday afternoon with an explosion on Alli...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 21, 2001
REFURBISHED DERRY WOMEN’S CENTRE OPENS
A £556,000 refurbishment of the Beibhinn House women’s centre at Guildhall Square and the Little Acorns community pre-school at Coshquin were officially opened on Thursday 21 June. Both projects were...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 21, 2001
NEW PERMANENT SECRETARY FOR DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
THE Head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, Mr Gerry Loughran, announced on Thursday June 21 that Gerry McGinn, currently Chief Executive Banking UK, Bank of Ireland, is to succeed Nigel Hamilton ...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 20, 2001
SEARCH FOR PORTADOWN GIRL CONTINUES
DETECTIVES in Portadown investigating the disappearance of Caroline Graham have brought in specialists to examine waste ground of Carleton Street in the County Armagh town. Caroline, originally from ...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 20, 2001
EDUCATION MINISTER CELEBRATES TEACHERS’ SUCCESS
EDUCATION Minister Martin McGuinness has paid tribute to the teachers of Northern Ireland at the Annual Teaching Awards Ceremony, held in Belfast’s Waterfront Hall. Awards were presented to ten local...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 20, 2001
THREE WOMEN ARRESTED IN NELSON MURDER CASE
THREE women have been held for questioning regarding the murder of solicitor Rosemary Nelson in 1999. Rosemary Nelson, a Catholic mother-of-three, died in a car booby trap explosion near her home in ...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 20, 2001
ACUTE HOSPITALS REVIEW GROUP SUBMITS REPORT
THE long awaited report from the Acute Hospitals Review Group, published this week, has proposed a radical shake up to Northern Ireland’s existing emergency hospital structures. The report, compiled ...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 20, 2001
POLICE INVESTIGATE VICIOUS ATTACKS
The police are investigating three overnight incidents in the Ballymena area which are believed to be linked and which are being treated as sectarian. Shortly after midnight on Wednesday June 20 men ...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 20, 2001
LAUNCH OF JOEY DUNLOP’S OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY
THE official biography of Joey Dunlop, undisputed master of the Isle of Man T.T., has been launched in his home town of Ballymoney, County Antrim. The official commemorative biography, issued on Tue...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 20, 2001
UP NORTH DOWN SOUTH
A REPORT published this week by the Northern Ireland Citizen Advice Bureau and its southern equivalent Comhairle aims to provide information and advice for those working and commuting across borders i...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 20, 2001
ENTREPRENEURS ENCOURAGED TO BE THE BEST
NORTHERN Ireland's business companies have been challenged to benchmark their performance against the best by entering the prestigious 2002 Queen’s Awards for Enterprise. The Queen’s Award scheme rec...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 20, 2001
McGIMPSEY ALLOCATES ADDITIONAL MONEY TO THE ARTS
Arts Minister, Michael McGimpsey unveiled a new strategy for the future direction of the arts in the Northern Ireland and has backed it up with an additional £400,000 for the sector. The Minister was...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 20, 2001
SHIPYARD EXTRACTS GLOBAL MARINE SETTLEMENT
HARLAND and Wolff shipyard has finally won through in its bid to extract a disputed £20 million payment owed by American oil firm Global Marine. The shipyard had taken the firm to court in an attempt...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 19, 2001
ROYAL MAIL WORKERS FACE LOYALIST THREATS
THE Royal Mail may suspend deliveries in a south Belfast suburb if loyalist threats continue to be made against Catholic delivery staff. The Post Office has taken some staff out of Seymour Hill in Du...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 19, 2001
NEW BUSINESS TRAINING CENTRE OPENS IN ANTRIM
DR SEAN Farren, Minister for Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment, officially opened Parity Training’s new Learning Centre at Antrim Technology Park. The Learning Centre, which repre...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 19, 2001
VISION FOR NI POST EU PEACE FUNDING
A conference, entitled ‘Beyond PEACE II – the Challenge’ took place in Belfast's Odyssey and was attended by over 200 delegates from across Europe. The burning issue of how Northern Ireland will cope...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 19, 2001
REID HOLDS POLITICAL TALKS IN BELFAST
NORTHERN Ireland Secretary of State Dr John Reid has held talks with the province’s smaller pro-agreement political parties. He met the Alliance Party, the Progressive Unionist Party (PUP), the Ulste...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 19, 2001
FEARS GROW OVER FURTHER NORTEL JOBS LOSSES
FEARS continue to grow on the future of jobs at troubled communications equipment supplier Nortel Networks. The company has announced that it is to cut a third of its entire workforce, some 10,000 jo...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 19, 2001
POLICE AND FIRE OFFICERS ATTACKED DURING BLAZE
A crowd of children, some as young as nine years, attacked police and fire officers with stones and other missiles while they attended a serious fire at a bar on the Whiterock Road in west Belfast whi...