2010 Business Top 50 Awards

Click here to see video footage of the 2010 Top 50.

You wouldn’t really like to go through a year like the one we’ve just seen since we last met at Stormont to toast our Top 50 Belfast Businesses. But the turbulent economic times have certainly been character-forming and those companies – big and small, private sector and social economy – which made it on to this select list can be proud of their accomplishments.

We’re especially pleased to be rolling out the red carpet for our Boston business and political visitors at the sixth annual Stormont luncheon on Friday, October 1 – where DSD Minister Alex Attwood will do the honours – who are being led by Brad Waugh, CEO of global giant NaviNet, and Rep. Charles Murphy, Chair of the Ways and Means Committee in the House of Representatives, Massachusetts. Our thanks to to our premier sponsors, Grafton Recruitment and Invest NI, and to Delta Print and Titanic Quarter for making this celebration possible, and of course for Jennifer McCann and Basil McCrea of the Enterprise, Trade and Investment Committee in the Assembly, who have opened the House on the Hill for this unique gathering.

Go n-éirí go geal le gach duine dár gcaoga – May all  our Top 50 continue to go from strength to strength in the time ahead.

Máirtín Ó Muilleoir,
CEO, Belfast Media Group

Columnists May 18, 2012

Lock us up and swallow the key!

I was in Donegal at the weekend and I asked a man how he planned to vote in the south’s up-coming referendum. “Well,” he told me, “ if Sinn Féin say no about something, I say yes”.

Liam Murphy May 14, 2012

Big man of GAA celebrates in style

Veni, Vidi, Vinci . I came, I saw, I conquered, was the powerful message sent back to Rome by Julius Caesar when he won a war in Zela (currently known as Zile in Turkey. After spending two days with the Gaels of Glengormley, Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh might well have sent a similar message back to headquarters. Throughout the two days he won the hearts of all who met him as he demonstrated his love and passion for the Irish language and Gaelic games.

Columnists May 13, 2012

That’s not the way to do it as summer nears

THERE’S nothing funnier for children to watch than a long-suffering wife getting battered with a cudgel by a short-tempered violent husband – or so you’d think if you watched a seaside Punch and Judy show.

Colin Millar May 12, 2012

Blues make it a double

Linfield replicated their end of season celebrations from 12 months ago as they lifted their second trophy in the space of a week, defeating Crusaders 4-1 in Saturday’s Irish Cup final.

Andersonstown News May 11, 2012

My marathon highs and lows

HIGHLIGHTS 1. Sheltering in City Hall with marathon veteran from New York Fr Brian Jordan — chaplain to the trade unions of the Big Apple — before the 9am start while thousands were getting drenched outside waiting for the Lord Mayor Niall Óg to sound the starting horn (gun for off apparently decommissioned).

Columnists May 11, 2012

Who calls the shots in Europe?

I enjoy elections. I enjoy them so much, I was delighted when the Fianna Fáil wheeze of introducing electronic voting machines backfired, leaving them (and the taxpayer, of course) with machinery that couldn’t be used and cost a packet to store.