Mervyn Whyte MBE (left)NW200 Event Director, new recruits Conor Daly and Barry Crossan (front) both from North Belfast, Andrew McQuillan (centre, back) from Select Security and Brian Smart (right)Head of ESF, DEL

North West 200 helps long term unemployed get back into top gear

The Relentless International North West 200 and its security company Select Security will provide jobs for 20 long term unemployed men and women during Race Week.

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Weyl of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency, Dr Jim McGreevy of National Museums Northern Ireland and Catherine Bertrand from Butterfly Conservation Northern Ireland get ready for a Bioblitz at Crawfordsburn Country Park

Crawfordsburn gets ready to be Bioblitzed

Crawfordsburn Country Park is one of the locations selected for this year’s Ireland BioBlitz competition, and organisers are calling on the public to get involved in helping experts discover the extent of biodiversity in the popular North Down location

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A huge life-size animatronic Tarbosaurus dinosaur weighing 1.5 tonnes was placed into position at the Ulster Museum today

Jurassic installment: Tarbosaurus arrives at Ulster Museum

A huge life-size animatronic Tarbosaurus dinosaur weighing 1.5 tonnes was placed into position at the Ulster Museum today by a team of experts from the Natural History Museum, London.

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World Police and Fire Games Patron, Dame Mary Peters, and Director of Marketing and Communications, Alistair McGowan, welcome representatives from the German Police Services, Constanze Siefarth and Thomas Zemke to Campbell College Belfast where they were

World Police and Fire Games 2013 already boosting NI economy by £1m

With another 16 months still to go to the World Police and Fire Games 2013 has already broken the £1 million accommodation revenue milestone

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Racing driver, Arnie Black gets the McCandless 4WD Race Car into gear for this year’s Cultra Hillclimb, taking place at the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum on 2 June

Getting in gear for the 2012 Cultra Hillclimb

Motoring enthusiasts are getting in gear for this year’s much anticipated Cultra Hillclimb event at the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum on Saturday 2 June

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Looking forward to all the action at this year’s Relentless International North West 200 are from left Michael Rutter, model Clare Minne, Regional Development Minister, Danny Kennedy, Alastair Seeley, Guy Martin, Ryan Farquhar, Mervyn Whyte and Jeremy M

Riders line up to launch NW200 Race Programme

NW200 stars Guy Martin, Steve Plater and Michael Rutter joined top local competitors Alastair Seeley and Ryan Farquhar at Titanic Belfast to launch the event’s official race programme

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