Central to the North West is its world-renowned scenery, and the community of artists who have drawn inspiration from it. Niall Coleman speaks to the award-winning Derry-born sculptor, Eilis O’Connell, about place, the past and creating art in the public realm. Tell us about your inspiration and first experiences as an artist. The need to...
The Department for Infrastructure’s Chief Planner and Director of Regional Planning, Angus Kerr, outlines the challenges and opportunities in an era of uncertainty, including the expansion of environmental compliance from central government to local government and beyond. Highlighting a number of challenges currently facing the Department, ranging from adaptation for an outcomes-based approach set out...
Professor of Green Political Economy at Queen’s University Belfast, John Barry, argues that the lack of specific climate change legislation for Northern Ireland is a serious impediment for the region’s transition to a climate resilient economy and low carbon society. Climate change, or rather climate breakdown as we now ought to term it, is rarely...
David Whelan meets with Labour MP and south Armagh native, Conor McGinn to discuss his early life, his allegiance to Northern Ireland and his ambitions for Brexit and beyond. The introduction of a Private Members Bill in the House of Commons in early 2018 to legislate for same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland by an MP...
Following its designation as Northern Ireland’s first enterprise zone in 2016, the Atlantic Link Enterprise Campus in Coleraine is now home to Northern Ireland’s largest data centre. David Whelan speaks to 5NINES...
Paul Stapleton, Managing Director of NIE Networks talks to Owen McQuade about the challenges in running an electricity network business and how the grid is facilitating the transition to a low carbon...
Chief Executive of Northern Ireland’s second largest Council, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council, Roger Wilson, believes that the area’s solid strengths and its increasing potential across a number of areas...
Sara Venning, CEO of NI Water, discusses the critical role the organisation is playing in helping Northern Ireland meet its ambitions for economic growth. Currently providing 570 million litres of drinking water...
Chief Executive of Co-Ownership Mark Graham discusses the success of the organisation over the past 40 years, the challenges currently facing the housing sector and his plans to adapt the organisation for...
John McLean, Chief Executive of Radius Housing talks to Owen McQuade about the newly merged organisation’s first nine months of operation and how it is investing in developing communities. As we start...
President of AES UK and Ireland, Ian Luney, discusses adapting to disruption of the global energy market, aiding the renewable transition and how challenges in Ireland are being met with new solutions....
Twenty years after establishing his telecommunications business in Larne, Managing Director Britt Megahey attests that flexibility and innovation has ensured that Barclay Communications has been able to successfully evolve and thrive alongside...
Rosemary Steen, External Affairs Director at SONI (EirGrid Group), talks to agendaNi about the System Operator’s role in growing the Northern Ireland economy and the women who are making it happen. “We...
Chief Executive of Mid and East Antrim Borough Council, Anne Donaghy, and Chief Executive of Catalyst Inc Dr Norman Apsley discuss their unique new partnership which they believe will provide a...
