Northern Ireland News for July 2002 : Page 3

Northern Ireland News, Jul 24, 2002
Rodgers condemns attempted train hijacking
SDLP Deputy Leader and MLA for Upper Bann, Brid Rodgers has condemned the attempted hijacking of the Dublin-Belfast Enterprise train at Kilmore outside Lurgan on Wednesday morning. The incident happe...
Business News, Jul 24, 2002
Major jobs boost for County Leitrim
US company, MBNA, the world's largest independent credit card lender, is to expand its operation in Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim with the support of IDA Ireland. The company will create a furt...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 24, 2002
Invest NI to open regional office in Fermanagh
Sir Reg Empey, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Investment has confirmed that Invest NI is to site a new regional office in Enniskillen. During a meeting with Fermanagh District Council the Ministe...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 24, 2002
NI aerospace industry represented at Farnborough
“Northern Ireland aerospace companies must strengthen their knowledge base and overall competitiveness with greater focus on innovation through R&D projects and technology transfer from collaboration ...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 24, 2002
Thousands gather to remember murdered Catholic
A crowd of over 5,000 people from across Northern Ireland, and the religious divide, have attended a rally in Belfast in memory of 19-year-old Gerard Lawlor who was murdered by the UFF on Sunday night...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 24, 2002
BIA reveals record-breaking week
Belfast International Airport (BIA) has reported a record-breaking week after more than 90,000 passengers flew through the airport, making it the busiest week ever in the history of the airport. Comp...
Business News, Jul 24, 2002
Sir Reg visits top NI dairy produce exporter
Enterprise Minister, Sir Reg Empey, MLA, recently visited an Invest NI Export Winner who is developing products in Fivemiletown, Co Tyrone and exporting across the world. Fivemiletown Creamery is a r...
Business News, Jul 24, 2002
Cardiff International Airport takes off with CEM
CEM Systems have supplied an integrated access control and badge production system to Cardiff International Airport in Wales after being awarded the contract by main security contractors, Beacon Secur...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 24, 2002
Altnagelvin Hospital gets further medical boost
Altnagelvin Hospital has received another boost following its recent upgrade pledge when Minister for Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Bairbre de Brún, launched a new Magnetic Resonance Imag...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 24, 2002
Police Ombudsman’s report laid before parliament
The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Dr John Reid, has unveiled The Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland’s first annual report before Parliament on Monday July 23. The report covers the Poli...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 24, 2002
Four injured in paramilitary-style shootings
Four men have been injured and a family has had a lucky escape following a number of paramilitary-style shootings across the province. At around 11.15pm, a masked man armed with a sawn-off shotgun fo...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 23, 2002
Minister discusses concerns with business umbrella group
Sir Reg Empey, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Investment, has met members of the NI Business Alliance, an umbrella group for the main business bodies in Northern Ireland, to discuss a range of iss...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 23, 2002
New firearms controls for NI published
The government has published proposals for new improved legislative controls for firearms in Northern Ireland. Making the announcement, Security Minister Jane Kennedy said the proposed Draft Order wa...
Business News, Jul 23, 2002
DETI announces enhanced monitoring of labour market
As part of its three-year TSN Action Plan (2000-2003), the Department of Enterprise, Trade & Investment (DETI) plans to increase monitoring of the impact of government assistance on the labour market ...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 23, 2002
Man arrested following attempted robbery in Crossgar
A man has been arrested after a woman was attacked in her own home in Crossgar. Police arrested the man following an attempted robbery on the woman's home in Downpatrick Street. The 58-year-old awok...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 23, 2002
Blair wrong to focus on republicans says Adams
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams left his meeting with Secretary of State John Reid at Hillsborough Castle today and launched a scathing attack on the government's approach over the IRA ceasefire. Fol...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 23, 2002
Prisons' mark success in drugs finds
Prison authorities have made 346 drugs finds in Northern Ireland prisons over the past year, it has been revealed. The Director General of the Northern Ireland Prison Service, Peter Russell, who took...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 23, 2002
FSB make loans to members hit by FMD
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has revealed it has given almost £350,000 in Interest Free Loans to its members hit by the Foot and Mouth Crisis across the United Kingdom. The announcement c...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 23, 2002
Mixed fortunes for local sides as Milk Cup kicks off
Former Manchester United star, and current Wales manager, Mark Hughes has opened the 20th Milk Cup soccer tournament in Coleraine. Fifty-four teams from across the world are in the North West for the...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 23, 2002
High Court upholds 50-50 police recruitment policy
An 18-year-old Protestant who challenged the PSNI's 50-50 recruitment procedure as discrimination has seen his application turned down at the High Court in Belfast today. Mark Parsons, from Bangor, ...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 23, 2002
Three die in separate road accidents
Three people have been killed in two separate road accidents yesterday. At 11 o'clock yesterday morning an elderly couple were involved in a collision on Victoria Street in Londonderry's Waterside. ...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 23, 2002
Seven questioned following robbery and house siege
Seven people are being questioned by the PSNI following a robbery and armed siege in Londonderry. The siege began shortly after lunchtime on Monday, when two men entered a terraced house at Duncregga...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 22, 2002
MoD refuse to exonerate Chinook crash pilots
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has declined to accept a report by a House of Lords select committee into the 1994 Chinook crash on the Mull of Kintyre. Despite a finding by peers that there was no jus...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 22, 2002
Londonderry goes 'mad for it' as Oasis tickets go on sale
Oasis mania gripped Londonderry over the weekend when tickets went on sale for the rock group's open-air concert in the Waterside area of the city on September 7. Eager fans besieged ticket outlets a...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 22, 2002
Children's services to benefit from funding boost
Families and children in all four HSS Board areas will benefit from a recent announcement on children’s services, Health, Social Services and Public Safety Minister, Bairbre de Brún said today. The ...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 22, 2002
Man charged with causing mainland explosions
A 19-year-old man has been charged with plotting to cause explosions following an investigation into a suspected Real IRA bombing campaign. John Paul Gerard Hannan was been remanded in custody after ...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 22, 2002
400 jobs to be created at Shorts
Around 400 jobs are likely to be created at aerospace company Shorts after parent company Bombardier decided to build part of its new corporate jet in Belfast. The decision to build the fuselage of t...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 22, 2002
Man dies in road accident
A 24-year-old man has been killed after a road accident in south Belfast on Sunday afternoon. The man, who has been named as David Stevenson from Carney Crescent, Clonduff, Castlereagh, was a passeng...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 22, 2002
Violence threatens stability of executive
After weeks of mounting violence across Northern Ireland, the future of the executive seems close to collapse as advocates of the Good Friday agreement remain at loggerheads over the state of paramili...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 22, 2002
PSNI officers help save hundreds of lives in Kosovo
Four PSNI officers have helped to save the lives of hundreds of people in Kosovo after a serious fire broke out at a Power Station in Pristina. One man was killed and 32 were injured in the blaze whi...