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BBC NI Economics & Business Editor. Based in Belfast. [email protected]
Once you’ve decided you want a hard Brexit & a soft Irish land border that policy is leading you to one place bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…
Some personal news🤰🏻 A big thank you to my lovely colleagues for the send off on my last day before maternity leave🍼 Next month I will have a different job (with a tiny boss) but hoping years of early breakfast shifts will help prepare me for what is coming next - a BBC baby👶🏻
Remit letters are dropping for all the pay review bodies… They all seem to contain words to the effect of - all rises will have to be funded out of existing budgets - unlike last year. Also trying to get pay settled before the new salaries start next year.
The #NHSPRB has received a remit letter from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care @wesstreeting seeking recommendations on pay for the Agenda for Change workforce in England for 2026. The remit letter can be found here: gov.uk/government/pub…
FYI: Liverpool twitter is trying to work how a long-mocked ‘BREAKING NEWS’ spoofer somehow seems to have called the Isak saga more accurately than legions of professional LFC watchers.
Like another world listening to a podcast on Ireland’s pre-budget report which points to a 6% increase in core public spending, a targeted VAT cut & a massive infrastructure splurge & the hosts are having to say suck their teeth a bit & ‘it’s not a hair-shirt budget.’
Food manufacturer @DeliLitesirl in Warrenpoint is investing almost £13m automating its sandwich production and ‘heat-to-eat' product range🥪 It's also investing a further £6m creating 130 new jobs and upskilling the existing workforce
The European Union and the United States are heading towards a trade deal that would result in a broad tariff of 15% applying to EU goods imported into the United States, two diplomats said today. rte.ie/news/business/…
Irish food prices second most expensive of the 20 countries that make the Eurozone independent.ie/business/money…
It is facetious. If it was just a link to the airport it wouldn’t be worth it. But the project is about massively improving the connectivity of the northern suburbs which are served by neither the Dart or the Luas.
Micheal Martin: "We need Metro North for the climate, to get people out of cars onto public transport" RTE: "So, they can travel to the airport to take an airplane flight?" "Let's not get facetious about it" says a tired-looking Micheal Martin realising he's been caught out
It is amazing how bad it's become. Just full of slop, Boolean operators ignored, sponsored rubbish everywhere, image search nuked, 'corrected' spellings which aren't, etc etc etc.
Google search was so amazing when it worked. You could explore the hidden corners of the internet
Branding in place for first Moxy hotel in NI- it’s a Marriott brand. The fit out is (obviously) continuing.
New analysis out this morning from PropertyPal estimates the average rent for home in NI increased by 1.7% in the 2nd quarter to £976p/m (+7.3% y/y). Belfast avg now up to £1,143p/m. Rent in Derry City/Strabane +2.1% q/q % +8.6% over the year to £824p/m. irishnews.com/news/business/…
Thanks to all the mums who spoke to me in Lurgan about how expensive summer can be
According to research from the Ulster University, more parents are having to take their children out of sporting activities as they can't afford it due to the rising cost of living. Some parents in Lurgan who are calling for more support over the summer holidays.
The Financial Services Union has described an announcement by AIB of changes to its hybrid working policy as regressive, shortsighted and without justification. rte.ie/b/1524763
Ireland’s key fiscal rule in the mud again. Core net spending growth not supposed to exceed 5% p/a. The next budget is set to have spending growth of 7.3% plus a small package of tax cuts. FinMin says emerging challenges require a flexible budget strategy.
Brewdog to close 10 pubs across UK, some 'within days' bbc.in/3IEgNrv
New release today from the NI Fiscal Council. nifiscalcouncil.org/publications/n…
The Irish govt confirms that just under €1bn will be committed to the cross-border Shared Island fund up to 2030. No specific new projects have been identified in either the Shared Island strand or the wider NDP; details are expected to be given at the October budget.
Ireland’s government will use the Apple tax windfall to help beef-up investment in the country’s creaking infrastructure. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Average UK weekly road fuel prices statistics as at 21 July 2025 published today at: gov.uk/government/sta…