Portrush Bank Closures: A Cashless Town?
The last bank in Portrush closed in 2018. When the Ulster Bank announced in 2017 that they were closing their branch, local Councillor and businessman Alderman Norman Hillis spoke to the media expressing his worry about the closure. In the two years since the bank closed, how have businessmen, like …
Review: Shetland – BBC ONE
Review: Shetland – BBC ONE Shetland is a BBC dramatized programme that has the audience grabbing onto their chairs. But Series five is even more penetrating that any other series. But with that in mind it does seem quite unfair to pick out one performance or a person in particular. …
Successful Day at the Omagh Rugby 7s
On Saturday 25th April, Omagh Academicals Rugby Football Club hosted their annual Seven’s Tournament. 27 teams from across Ulster competed in four leagues. The Omagh Accies first team defeated their Omagh 2nd XV counterparts, to win the Campbell Cup. ‘No Woman No Try’, a team of other Omagh players, won …
Super Councils for Dummies
The reform of local government in Northern Ireland sees the replacement of the 26 districts created in 1973 with a smaller number of super districts. The review process began in 2002 with proposals for either seven or 11 districts made before it was suspended in 2010. On March 12 2012 …
QUB SWOT Fashion Show 2015 a Massive Hit
On the 9th March the annual SWOT Fashion Show took place in the Whitla Hall, in Belfast. Students Working Overseas Trust is a charitable society run by fourth year medics at Queen’s University Belfast. The students raise funds and take them to the third world when they travel to work …
Big News Monday at UUNewsroom
Journalism students are securing the major news stories of the day, across the world, across NI and across UU Coleraine’s campus. Follow progress on Twitter at #UUNewsroom University of Ulster Students’ Union: Are they worth a vote? By Dylan Ruane and Ryan Murphy Today begins the gruelling campaigning process …