Colin Neill

The minister for infrastructure John O’Dowd has met with a new connectivity stakeholder group. Pictured is Matthew Hall, CEO, Belfast City Airport, Daniel Owens, Belfast International Airport, Brenda Morgan, head of business development, City of Derry Airport, Stephen Anton, Fonacab and Licensed Taxi Operators Association, Suzanne Wylie, CEO, NI Chamber,Christopher McCausland, managing director, Value Cabs, Colin Neill, chief executive, Hospitality Ulster and chair, Northern Ireland Connectivity Coalition and Minister for Infrastructure, John O'Dowd, MLA

Minister meets with stakeholder group to discuss poor connectivity in NI

Colin Neill, chief executive, Hospitality Ulster

Hospitality Ulster appeals to landlords after another NI business to close

Following a year of exceptional accomplishments and milestones, multi-award-winning Follow Coffee Company is celebrating their first birthday at Portrush’s Follow Coast. Pictured are Colin Neill, chief executive of Hospitality Ulster, Lesley McCaughan, owner of Follow Coast and Jackie Robinson, executive chef

NI community coffee shop celebrates a £200,000 investment and year of success

Finance Minister Dr Caoimhe Archibald MLA has urged businesses to participate in a rates revaluation exercise to help inform future bills. Finance Minister Dr Caoimhe Archibald MLA pictured with Angela McGrath, the commissioner of Valuation at Land & Property Services

NI firms urged to participate in rates revaluation exercise to help future bills

Colin Neill, chief executive of Hospitality Ulster has said that the Executive must act now and introduce policy, legislation or a mechanism to make sure rates don’t spiral out of control, especially when the business rates system in Northern Ireland is already unfit for purpose

Calls to curb Northern Ireland councils’ business killer rate increases

Glyn Roberts, Chief Executive of Retail NI, urged union members not to strike, as money to settle their dispuite is already on the table.

Businesses bosses ask unions not to strike as pay rise money is already on table

Retail NI chief executive Glyn Roberts welcomes progress on devolution and urges trade unions to call off Thursday's strike

Retail NI and Hospitality Ulster urges unions to call off Thursday's strike

Empty bus lanes in Belfast city centre during an earlier strike on December 15

Bus-and-rail strike: 'Some businesses may close due to lack of staff'

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Empty Bus Lanes in Belfast City Centre as Public transport workers in Northern Ireland have begun a 48-hour strike in a dispute about pay.
Trade unions Unite, GMB and Siptu are involved in the action on what is traditionally one of the busiest weekends before Christmas.
It is expected to cause widespread disruption to Translink bus, glider and train services, with a further day of action scheduled for 22 December.
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Transport strike empties Belfast - fear for small traders in lean January

Workers at the Translink bus depot in east Belfast during their last 24-hour strike on Friday 1 December which caused widespread disruption

Hospitality leaders urge transport workers to ‘rethink’ strikes

Hospitality Ulster members have branded the lack of direct focus and support for the local hospitality sector by the British government and the NI Secretary of State as a “disgrace” and “dereliction of duty” towards such an important part of the Northern Ireland economy. Pictured is Colin Neill, chief executive, Hospitality Ulster

Calls on Secretary of State to explain why no rates relief for NI hospitality

Maximum taxi fares in Northern Ireland will increase, the Department for Infrastructure has announced

Maximum taxi fares in Northern Ireland will increase by up to 19.5% in December

Brendan Downey, director of Friar Tucks restaurants, surveys the damage to one of his businesses - just behind him - caused by severe flooding in Newry

Call for rates holiday for all Northern Ireland business flood victims

Colin Neill of Hospitality Ulster. Photo: Phil Magowan/PressEye

Hospitality fears it could become 'collatoral damage' in industrial dispute

Increase in alcohol duty 'will cripple hospitality' claims industry body. Photo: PA

Increase in alcohol duty 'will cripple hospitality' claims industry body

Colin Neill, chief executive, Hospitality Ulster

Warning from hospitality sector about the impact of rising cost of food
The head of Hospitality Ulster has said that the rising cost of food which has pushed up inflation is not good news for the sector.
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Chief executive of Hospitality Ulster, Colin Neill, has raised concern about the increased costs of doing business which leaves businesses in a bleak position

Hospitality Ulster concern at 'bleak picture' offered by new worrying report

Insolvencies rose from 280 in 2021 to 512 last year, accountancy group UHY Hacker Young said. Pubs and bars have faced rising energy and other costs and concerns over falling sales, it added. Photo: Jeff Spicer/PA Wire

People urged to support hospitality industry at Valentine's as pub closures rise

The Belfast Loughshore Hotel in Carrickfergus has been probably the best known of the migrant hubs

Number of Northern Irish hotels used to house migrants officially revealed

Translink said its late night buses and trains carried over 10,000 people during the festive period

Further calls for Translink to make late night services a permanent fixture

Colin Neill of Hospitality Ulster

Hospitality industry welcomes review of rates costs

Some Northern Ireland businesses face closure following the cost-of-living crisis

Hospitality Ulster and Retail NI reacts to energy support measures by UK Governm...

Chief executive, Hospitality Ulster, Colin Neill

Urgent call for clarity on support as list of NI business closures grows

Hospitality Ulster chief executive Colin Neill said the current situation is worse than anything the pandemic threw up

Cost-of-living crisis: NI hospitality facing financial ‘cliff edge’ as spirallin...

Nightlife in the Cathedral Quarter of Belfast, home to numerous pubs and restaurants

Hordes of stag and hen parties set to descend on Belfast as business booms

Conor Murphy

Treasury ‘must act now to help our businesses’

Treasury must act now to support businesses says Murphy
‘Just like households our businesses are facing a cost crisis’
Claire Cartmill

Helen Smyth, advisory and economic development manager at the LRA with Colin Neill, CEO of Hospitality Ulster

LRA launches Economic Development Service to support business growth

Colin Neill

Soaring bills mean many NI business 'now face situation worse than during Covid'

Chair of Hospitality Ulster, Tony O’Neill, with Hospitality Ulster chief executive, Colin Neill and new vice chair of Hospitality Ulster, Stephen Magorrian

A triple threat to the Hospitality sector warns chief executive

The Stephens Catering Equipment team along with the award winning Pudu Robotics

Stephens Catering Equipment strikes gold at IFEX Innovation Awards

Pint of beer

Easter pub opening hours: Churches express ‘regret’ over new rules

Chief executive, Hospitality Ulster, Colin Neill

Modernisation of Easter NI licensing laws is a ‘shot in the arm for the entire h...

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Colin Neill, Chief Executive of Hospitality Ulster
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Easter weekend pub opening times: Changes welcomed by industry body

A blaze has broken out at Babel bar in Belfast city centre.

Firefighters tackle blaze at Babel rooftop bar in Belfast city centre

Shoppers go about their business in Belfast City Centre as Coronavirus legal restrictions are being lifted in Northern Ireland and being replaced with guidance

Businesses hoping for return to  normality as Covid laws lifted

Bill Penton, Penton Publications, Stephen Magorrian, Horatio Group, Mairead McEntee, Ulster University, Gordon Lyons MLA, Minister for the Economy, Cathy Stevenson, Babcock Training, Michael Deane, Deanes Restaurants, Colin Neill, Hospitality Ulster and Mark Rice, Belfast Metropolitan College

New Hospitality Employers Charter launched to demonstrate businesses committed t...

Coronavirus restrictions for hospitality businesses ease further from noon today

Covid-19: ‘Small uplift’ for hospitality as restrictions continue to ease

Colin Neill, Chief Executive of Hospitality Ulster, at the Northern Whig Bar and Restaurant

Good news for NI hospitality

Chief executive of Hospitality Ulster, Colin Neill

Officials call for Executive to lift the ‘punitive’ restrictions on businesses

Colin Neill, chief executive, Hospitality Ulster

Worst trading performance in living memory says Hospitality Ulster CE

Self-isolating because of omicron infections or close contacts led to high staff shortages in hospitality over Christmas.
Photo: Damien Storan/PA Wire

We need financial help now saysCovid-ravaged hospitality sector

A sign in Belfast city centre reminding customers to wear face coverings

Supply chain worry for NI amid staff absences: Don't panic buy, say Retail NI

News Letter editorial

Hoping that 2022 will see worst of pandemic behind us

(left to right) Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, First Minister Paul Givan and Northern Ireland Health Minister Robin Swann in the Great Hall of Parliament Buildings at Stormont, announcing new Covid restrictions for Northern Ireland. Stormont ministers have agreed that nightclubs in Northern Ireland will close from Boxing Day. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Latest Covid closures ‘unforgivable’ and ‘contemptible’ say NI business leaders

Indoor hospitality continues to face challenges

Businesses warn Executive: You can’t do lockdown on the cheap

A Covid vaccine passport

NI vaccine pass confusion fears ahead of looming legal change on Monday

Justice Minister Naomi Long says the PSNI do not have primary responsibility for enforcement of Covid rules.

Hospitality chief challenges Long on PSNI Covid enforcement role

Letter to the editor

Vaccine passports will not harm politicians who are on public sector payroll

Funding sought for HGV training academy in Mid and East Antrim

SDLP Minister Nichola Mallon,

Murphy and Mallon round on DUP stance

Nightclubs in Northern Ireland reopened on Sunday as some remaining coronavirus restrictions imposed last March are lifted.
Venues across the rest of the UK and Republic of Ireland have already welcomed back customers. Halloween party goers pictured in Filthy McNastys nightclub in Belfast on Sunday night.
Picture By:Pacemaker Press.

Nightclubs’ reopening ‘relative return to normality’

A COVID-19 vaccination pop up vaccine centre open at Custom House Square.

Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Medics ‘very concerned’ about further relaxation of coronavirus restrictions

A sign welcoming people back to Harlem Cafe in Belfast City Centre.

Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Hospitality hopes for  further easing soon

Colin Neill, chief executive of Hospitality Ulster

Hospitality Ulster still frustrated by remaining rules after easing