Máirtín Ó Muilleoir is the publisher of the Belfast Media Group titles and of the Irish Echo in America.
He has been involved in journalism for over four decades and has penned columns for both that the Andersonstown News and the former daily Irish language newspaper Lá.
He is the author of several books in Irish and English including ‘Ceap Cuddles’ and ‘Belfast’s Dome of Delight’.
He has served in politics for Sinn Féin both in Belfast City Council and in the power-sharing Executive at Stormont.
As co-founder of events company Aisling Events, he has hosted a range of transatlantic conferences including the Big Irish Campfire, the New York-New Belfast Conference and the Belfast International Homecoming.
He is the proud recipient of a Honorary Doctorate from Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, USA.
Gabe Megahey (82), one of a group of Irish republicans known as the "deportees" who had been allowed by President Clinton to remain in America, has been ordered to leave the United States by way of a letter from the Department of Homeland Security.
Flax Café beside St John's Chapel on the Falls Road has reopened its doors just as the tourism influx peaks.
At today's opening of Teach Chluain Ard, new home to the West Belfast Partnership Board, Finance Minister John O'Dowd rejected claims that "democracy was continuing to fail" in the North.
Michael McAdam believes in dreams - even if they are the very stuff of movies. In fact, especially if they are the stuff of movies.
IF you want to judge the values of any society, you could do worse than ask how well it funds its libraries.
A delegation of Irish-Australian business leaders has returned to Belfast for the fourth year running — and wasted no time putting their money where their mouths are.
Gail Cook, director of marketing with battery-powered marine vessel company Artemis addressed the June gathering of the West Belfast Small Business Forum this morning.
A 2013 promise by then First Minister and Deputy First Minister Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness to bring down Belfast's peace walls within ten years was "meaningless".
It's correct what they say about Cleveland, Ohio, it really is a bastion of the Irish. But for those in the know, that's only half the story; for in truth the city is more an outpost of Co. Mayo than an offshoot of Ireland.
Irish speakers in West Belfast were left speechless this week by the unveiling of an English-only mural in the Bog Meadows, epicentre of the area's burgeoning Gaeltacht Quarter.
A Co Derry entrepreneur who co-founded leading HR agency Think People, recently acquired by a major Scottish-headquartered company, will tell the next West Belfast Small Business Roundtable that values and principles are crucial to her career journey.
A battling band of American dockworkers are set to do some heavy-lifting for a West Belfast Irish language youth club which has had to put new-build plans on hold due to a funding shortfall.
When the chips were down for West Belfast, the one person who spoke up for the area as an economic hotspot was New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.
Veteran entrepreneur Hugh Cormican told the West Belfast Small Business Roundtable this morning that entrepreneurs must possess curiosity and passion.
A West Belfast-born entrepreneur aiming to grow his health diagnostic company Cirdan into a Unicorn — a business with a valuation of $1bn — will address the next West Belfast Small Business Roundtable.