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Civic leaders must set themselves bolder goals
If the mission of last week’s Belfast One City Conference could be summed up in a word, it would be a four-letter one: Jobs.
Stop fighting for scraps and set our sights higher
One wonders what it costs Invest NI to attract 235 jobs to these shores — in both time and money — but it’s fairly clear that it doesn’t come cheap.
Hard work securing jobs for Catholics
There was a glut of voices on the radio the other day, each eager to comment on ‘The Estate’, a TV fly-on-the-wall documentary about Ballysally housing estate near Coleraine.
A fair crack of the whip is all that we’re asking
It’s not clear whether the old Chinese adage, ‘May you live in interesting times’, is a curse or a benediction but, either way, an interesting year lies ahead for West Belfast.