Tag: Belfast

• Thursday, October 5th 2023 - 08:46 UTC

  Royal Navy revamping Harland & Wolff yard in Belfast, home of the Titanic

  

  The Royal Navy has reported that work has begun revamping the world-famous Harland & Wolff yard in Belfast, home of the Titanic so it can build three new support ships for the Navy.

• Saturday, October 29th 2022 - 10:26 UTC

  Lecture on Falklands Liberation Anniversary at Queen's University in Belfast

  

  As part of the Falkland Islands' 40th anniversary year of events in the UK, a delegation from Falkland House visited Belfast and Northern Ireland.

• Tuesday, August 23rd 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  RRS Attenborough calls at Belfast to pick up a new crew before further scientific research

  

  After a long season in Antarctica, Falkland Islands' flagged exploration ship RRS Sir David Attenborough has docked in Belfast for the first time, to pick up new crew members ahead of carrying out further scientific studies around the UK coastline. The state of the art vessel is owned by the Natural Environment Research Council and operated by the British Antarctic Survey.

• Monday, November 8th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Second bus in two weeks torched in unionist neighborhood of Belfast

  

  Four men hijacked and set fire to a double-deck bus in Newtownabbey, Belfast, Northern Ireland. According to the police report, the driver and a small number of passengers were able to leave the bus before it was torched, with no reports of injuries, but the vehicle was a total loss.

• Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 09:48 UTC

  The Titanic ship yard broke and in administration; the end of North Ireland's once proud iconic industry

  

  Accountancy firm BDO has been appointed administrators to North Ireland's shipbuilders Harland and Wolff, a spokesman for the Belfast shipyard has said. An insolvency request is expected to be filed at the High Court in Belfast on Tuesday.

• Friday, May 3rd 2019 - 08:29 UTC

  Bombardier selling its Northern Ireland operations: 3.600 jobs on the line

  

  The aerospace firm, Bombardier, is putting its Northern Ireland operation up for sale as part of a reorganization of the business. The Canadian aircraft manufacturer employs about 3,600 people across several locations in Northern Ireland.

• Saturday, December 23rd 2017 - 12:38 UTC

  Dublin does not accept direct rule from London in North Ireland

  

  The Irish government would expect to have a “real and meaningful involvement” in Northern Ireland if efforts to restore Stormont fail, the Irish prime minister has said. Leo Varadkar said he would not support a return to direct rule from London if time is called on talks to restore a power-sharing government in Belfast, and anticipated he would make a fresh bid for a deal in January.