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...

Newry BID with its partners and stakeholders has scooped a major all island award in the Bank of Ireland ‘Begin Together’ Awards. The...

Trans Europe Express (TEE), a family owned international freight forwarding company based in Warrenpoint is celebrating 30 years in...

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...

Recently I was working with Newry BID delivering webinars for members on ‘Google My Business’. Digital media is not my area of expertise,...

One of the things that has emerged from the current pandemic is the fragility of many of our current business offerings. Where I find it...

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

Today is the ‘official’ start day of King Communication. It is really only a date in the diary but important as I set goals for the future.

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.

One of the key things that strikes me in a crisis is that despite the planning and all the nodding towards crisis communications- non...

Wednesday 10th June 2020 With all the attention on Coronavirus recovery and the ‘Cummings and goings’ in Downing Street it would be easy...

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...

People talk about the importance of a values-based culture but what is it and why does it matter? A values-based culture is a workplace...