The festive spirit is back in Royal Hillsborough as the much-anticipated Christmas Market returns on Friday 13^th December.  

Global luggage shipping company My Baggage has reported an over 200% increase in shipments to Australia where Irish students and young professionals continue to relocate to study and work, in the last 24 months. The increase represents triple the demand for shipments going over the summer months June to August to Australia over the last 2 years. 

Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council welcomes its Moira Speciality Food Fair back to Moira Demesne on Saturday 17^th August.  It is an opportunity to promote the rise in artisan producers and small business in Northern Ireland by showcasing a host of new producers alongside Food Fair veterans. 

Continuing their collaboration which saw the launch of the Sheeran by Lowden brand of guitars and a subsequent range of exclusive guitars to mark key albums, tours and career milestones, Ed Sheeran and Lowden Guitars have teamed up once again to create an acoustic guitar, this time to accompany Ed's latest – and seventh straight number one – album, Autumn Variations.

Following the launch of our East Midlands-based headquarters in early 2023, which reflected an investment of over £1.7m, HSL have confirmed continued growth and expansion of our health tech and audio-visual solutions team to continue to oversee and deliver audio-visual solutions across GB.

A new-build house in County Down is set to dramatically reduce its carbon footprint after becoming the first in Northern Ireland to be heated using a biofuel.

Founded in 2016 by Joanne O’Doherty and Jackie Crooks, Kinsetsu provides innovative sensor-based and automation technology solutions that are deployed to drive positive change within critical service environments. Kinsetsu’s ‘ktrack’ software works by simplifying the connection and management of assets using a diverse network of sensors, providing automated insight and status awareness of equipment, people, inventory and fleet.

Strengthening their ongoing support for Northern Ireland’s LGBTQ+ community, Citi Belfast has partnered with Cara-Friend and The Integrated Education Fund to offer grants to three schools to support LGBTQ+ inclusion.

Addressing one of the primary obstacles to electric vehicle (EV) adoption in Northern Ireland, the lack of access to charging facilities, startup GoPlugable has revealed their plans to build an online network and charger-sharing ecosystem to enable EV owners to take advantage of available privately-owned chargers in their areas and homeowners with EV chargers to earn money through sharing access.

Citi Belfast have continued their mission to challenge misconceptions of careers in the financial and professional services and encourage more people from diverse backgrounds to consider careers in the sector with the recent announcement of their Citi Career Empowerment Programme.

County Down’s Lowden Guitars is hoping to expand its global reach with Amazon to sell its ‘Sheeran by Lowden’ range. This comes in time for Ed Sheeran’s 25-date North American leg of his ‘Mathematics’ World Tour, playing to almost 1.5 million fans.

Artisan food lovers flocked to Hillsborough on Saturday to attend the first Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council’s first Hillsborough Farmers Market of 2023. Set up at The Dark Walk and Hillsborough Fort, the market took place between 10am to 3pm and showcased over 50 food and non-food local traders.

People across Ireland who are seeking tattoo removal or rejuvenation of problematic skin will now have a less painful option available to them in the capital city, as Irish aesthetics practitioner Shauna O’Neill launches Edit Laser Skin Clinic. Representing an investment of over 700,000 EUR, Edit Laser Skin Clinic is located at The Cubes Offices, Beacon South Quarter, Dublin 18 and is Ireland’s first clinic to offer tattoo removal and various skin treatments using the PicoSure Pro Laser.

As Northern Ireland businesses gear up to navigate an uncertain 2023, Northern Ireland’s only purpose-built data centre, Prescient Data Centres, have doubled-down on their commitment to providing an energy-efficient, carrier neutral data centre facility which offers flexible solutions for enterprises of all sizes and requirements.