So we narrowly avoided a local lockdown last week; not least due to the combined effort of so many organisations in Newry, headed up by...

The time has come for tough love. We need to prevent a local lockdown. At the time of writing we were next in line if we hadn’t...

My phone stopped working on Friday morning. It is only three months old – I had no warning and no prior issues. There I was on a busy...

Our island wide tourism industry needs support and needs agility to get through this autumn/winter.

The world as we know it is slowly trying to create some sort of sustainable economy for itself but everyday brings more uncertainty.

Last week the UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced another series of measures to help stimulate economic recovery. While the summer...

It's a ‘mixed bag’ in business but sometimes you need to dig through the bag to find the positives instead of focussing on the negatives.

Consumer confidence is key to rebuilding our economy, with redundancy & job losses, this confidence will be knocked. We cannot afford this.

As a mother of two children under 6, I can understand only 18% of people currently have confidence in returning to children's activities.

3rd June 2020 Welcome to the first edition of my weekly business column. My name is Deborah Loughran, I am a past President and current...