Irish hotel group set to open its first northern venue after deal to acquire Belfast’s former Park Inn irishnews.com/news/business/…

Next week Stormont’s Windsor Framework Ctte will be taking oral evidence on dental fillings.

Farmers will be required to prove that any beef sold on the EU single market, including in Northern Ireland, has not come from cattle raised on land that was deforested to make space for grazing.

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Galgorm Resort planning 32 new luxury apartments for private buyers on former nine-hole golf course irishnews.com/news/business/…

Bank of England forecasting isn’t as good as it should be, partially because of inadequate investment in its IT infrastructure, an independent review finds. A ‘perfect, no notes’ vignette of the UK economy.

We need around 0.3 percent quarterly GDP growth to get positive GDP per capita increases. We will just make that in Q12024 if quarterly growth is 0.4 percent which would translate into around 0.15 percent quarterly rise in GDP per head.

The house sparrow is once again the bird most commonly seen in a Northern Ireland garden, according to the RSPB NI Big Garden Birdwatch
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Players may as well spit in Klopp’s face on the way off.

Strongest indication yet that Airbus wants the Belfast Spirit plant. ‘We could be a very legitimate owner of the activities in Belfast,’ Guillaume Faury tells Reuters.

Today, the Committee considered the replacement EU act COM/2024/52.

The Committee decided to monitor its progress and to publish any interim reports it considers appropriate, pursuant to paragraph 7(1) of the Windsor Framework (Democratic Scrutiny) Regulations 2024.

It looks like fried chicken brand Popeyes is opening its first Northern Ireland restaurants

Could Forestside be on the cards alongside Nando's and others?

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Post Brexit Gibraltar deal looks imminent. Tomorrow David Cameron will meet Spanish foreign minister José Maneul Albares and Gibraltar first minister Fabian Picardo in Brussels with Eu Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic.

The Linen Green Shopping Village in Moygashel has sold for £4m.

A deal has been on the cards for some time, but it completed in the last quarter, according to CBRE NI

Exclusive: Poundstretcher, the discount retailer which trades from more than 320 stores and employs 4,000 people, is to be bought by Fortress Investment Group, the owner of Majestic Wine and Punch Pubs. The deal will be announced later today. news.sky.com/story/discount…

The cost of a major flood defence scheme along the River Lagan in Belfast has almost doubled to £33 million. Inflation and a list of other 'unforeseen circumstances' have been blamed for the rising cost of the 8.6km flood wall project
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A convoluted background to this but essentially a series of court rulings mean, that short of the govt updating tax laws, taxi firms are going to be liable for VAT.

McKillen jr secures sale of The Dean hotels in deal valuing the group at €355m.

There are plans for a new Dean hotel in Belfast. businesspost.ie/news/mckillen-…

Beacon House: Capita’s Belfast headquarters on the market for £4.6m irishnews.com/news/business/…

This year's Ulster Bank Northern Ireland Ulster Fry Index.

Most items have fallen in cost in 2024, down on average 0.9%

But pork sausages, margarine, tea, bread and eggs are all up

Reminder, across renewables (particularly onshore wind) there are massive margins unimaginable by energy firms customers. Recent deals have seen purchase agreements at a strike rate well below what the wholesale market offers… in the absence of a support scheme for renewables!