Gary McDonald
Analysis: Denis Lynn - from expelled schoolboy to millionaire entrepreneur
WHILE his passing will be mostly felt at home, where he leaves a grieving wife and four daughters, Denis Lynn's untimely death sent shockwaves through the Downpatrick factories he'd built from the ground up.
Gary McDonald: Little clarity for businesses in these horrendous times
IT can't be easy being a law-maker in the midst of this horrendous crisis.
Analysis: The public can change its mind too, you know
WHETHER you're a Leaver or a Remainder, or have simply evolved into a BOB (bored of the whole thing - though please tell me you don't need me to explain that acronym?), its unlikely you're overly-enamoured with the calibre of any of our politicians right now.
The DUP needs to 'steady the bap' or face a divorce from business
IT'S no coincidence that the DUP has hogged Stormont's economy portfolio since 2007.
ANALYSIS: Businesses getting on with it amid ongoing Brexit uncertainty
IS it any wonder that only a miserly eight per cent of businesses in the north claim to have any sort of workable Brexit plan in place? Another day, and another new phrase has been thrown into the mix in the form of a border 'buffer zone'.
Gary McDonald: What can be done for Ulster University's stalled Belfast campus?
WHEN does a delayed project become a white elephant? And at what stage does that white elephant then become a blot on the landscape? We're close, but not quite there yet, with Ulster University's much-heralded campus development in Belfast's York Street.
OPINION: Businesses baffled as Brexit uncertainty makes planning impossible
AFTER the latest shenanigans in Brussels and Belfast, businesses in the north - from the high street to the export sector, agri-food to the blue economy - are asking: "What the hell is going on?" Firms are scratching their heads in bewilderment, not knowing how they'll prepare for events after March 2019.
'I've covered elections for 30 years. This one feels different'.
There's been an inane predictability to covering elections here, as I've done for 30 years. It hasn't been pretty. But this one feels different.
Masked loyalists pointed gun at Thomas O'Hara in 2003
THOMAS O’Hara, who was yesterday suspended by Sinn Féin, had a gun pointed at him as he passed through an illegal armed loyalist roadblock in July 2003.
Gary McDonald: ‘It was a real privilege to meet Muhammad Ali at Dublin's Special Olympics'
IT was a night of princes, presidents and prime ministers as Ireland put on a show for the world - and Croke Park had never see anything quite like it, writes Gary McDonald.