BUSINESS JOURNALIST - Ryan McAleer has been on the business beat since 2018, initially working as the Belfast Telegraph’s business correspondent before moving to the Irish News. He spent eight years before that as a news reporter in Co Tyrone, where he still lives.
LIDL has secured planning permission to build its first supermarket in South Belfast despite objections from Tesco and the Irish Football Association (IFA).
THE north’s economy looks to have emerged out of recessionary territory in the final months of 2022, driven by the improved performance of the services sector.
PUBLIC finances and households around the north will come under even more pressure from next month in the wake of the latest Budget and the DUP’s boycott of Stormont.