COSTA MESA, Calif., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Experian®, the global information services company, has appointed Jim Fitzpatrick as Global Chief Information Officer.
A short clip of the NI Assembly Speaker’s Business from today’s Stormont Live . Afterwards Mark Devenport commented that it’s the Speaker declaring there will be “No More Heroes” being ejected from the Assembly for a day . Jim Fitzpatrick noted that the new arrangements for addressing “unparliamentary language” - potentially not being “called to speak...
In yesterday’s Irish News Sean Hughes , describing himself as “a member of Sinn Féin”, ran with the “politically motivated” line on the seizure of his and his extended families’ assets which SOCA has claimed came from laundering the proceeds of mortgage fraud, tax evasion and benefit fraud - a line generously gifted him by his “good friend” the...
Jim Fitzpatrick looks at the debate over academic selection in Northern Ireland, and asks whether Sinn Fein have picked the wrong issue on which to take an ideological stand.
ASDA IN HALAL STORM SUPERMARKET giant Asda has risked sparking a racial backlash in the place where the BNP won its first ever council, by closing its traditional fresh meat counter and replacing it with a halal only section. The chain has decided to make the move at its large store on the Isle of Dogs, east London. Within weeks, anyone wanting fresh pork chops or ham off the bone will have to go to...
I mentioned the reaction of Sinn Féin’s Conor Murphy, MP, MLA, to the operational matter of the seizure of assets and searches in south Armagh this morning - “Sean Hughes is a sound Republican.” [Is that like being a “good republican”? - Ed] Possibly. He also told BBC NI’s Martina Purdy that Sean Hughes was “a very good friend” of his. Here’s...
Isabel Williams, Computing , Monday 26 October 2009 at 15:41:00 MPs will question officials on failings outlined in a highly critical report by the National Audit Office MPs will question officials from the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) this afternoon over the future of the Rural Payments Agency and its failure to effectively deliver EU subsidies to farmers. The Public...
During the coverage of the UUP Conference today, BBC NI’s Jim Fitzpatrick did a quick interview with the Conservative Party’s Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Owen Paterson, MP. Here’s a question and answer transcribed from that interview. [ Jim Fitzpatrick ] “Perhaps there is less of a tension on the constitutional issue in those areas, although Scotland excepted...
It's been a bad week for agriculture minister Jim Fitzpatrick. As if the damning report on England's uniquely complicated and expensive farm payments system wasn't bad enough, poor Jim also had to appear before a bizarre Muslim-only press conference to...
This article might give us a clue : The EU farm subsidies system is a "masterclass of misadministration" in most of the UK, the head of the Commons Public Accounts Committee has said... Farming minister Jim Fitzpatrick has disputed figures showing average claim processing costs were £285 in Scotland, but £1,743 in England... The National Audit Office said the current average cost...