Michael Stewart

Mayor of Antrim and Newtownabbey, Councillor Leah Kirkpatrick with (L-R) Deputy Mayor, Councillor Julie Gilmour, Programme Officer for The Farming Community Network, George Doherty and Councillor Michael Stewart.

Council supports charity cancer campaign urging rural community to ‘nip it in th...

Chris McCracken, Managing Director at Linen Quarter BID

Business management consultants hail project results

Belfast City Centre Night Czar, Michael Stewart, launched an open letter to the First and Deputy First Ministers in May calling for the funding of year-round late-night bus and rail services 52 weekends a year in Belfast. Pictured is Chris McCracken, Phillip Brett MLA. Martina Connolly, Night Czar, Deputy First Minister and Damien Corr

Over 1,000 NI firms call for late-night transport provision 52 weekends a year

Chris McCracken LQ BID, Phillip Brett MLA, Martina Connolly Belfast One, Belfast City Centre Night Czar Michael Stewart, Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly, Damien Corr CQ BID

One thousand businesses call for year-round late-night transport provision

Templepatrick are preparing for their first-ever Premier League campaign after winning Section One last season. (Photo by Northern Cricket Union)

Templepatrick not here to make up numbers in historic Premier League campaign

L-R Martina Connolly, Michael Stewart, Damien Corr, Chris McCracken.

The night stuff: Belfast city centre's Purple Flag renewed

Translink and Belfast officials pictured at the launch of festive late-night public transport near the end of November.

Year-round night bus and train pledge after 50% leap in passengers

Charlotte Irvine, Finance and Contracts Manager at LQ BID

Paving the way for safer streets for women

Culture Night drew massive crowds to the streets of Belfast.

Culture Night to make 2025 comeback

CEO of Belfast One; Mary Jo McCanny from Visit Belfast; Damien Corr, Manager of Cathedral Quarter Bid; Christopher McCausland from Valuecab; Michael Stewart, Belfast Night Czar; Joel Neill, Operations Director, Hospitality Ulster; William McCausland, fonaCAB Managing Director; Cllr Sam Nelson, Chair of Belfast City Council's City Growth and Regeneration Committee; Lisa Comerton, Belfast Chamber and McCracken, Managing Director of Linen Quarter Bid

Translink reveals details of its Christmas late-night travel services

LQ BID's Charlotte Irvine with the Street Beat Team.

Research reveals women actively avoid certain areas in Belfast at night

A new commission has been established by Hospitality Ulster and the Night Time Industries Association to champion Northern Ireland’s nightlife. Pictured is Cathedral Quarter

Night-Time Commission to supercharge NI's Hospitality and Tourism Industry

Night Czar role is aimed at boosting Belfast at night time

Belfast could get a second 'Night Czar'

Belfast's three city Business Improvement Districts (BIDs), Linen Quarter BID, Belfast One, and Destination CQ, have announced Michael Stewart as Belfast’s city centre’s first night czar. He is currently the director of Common Market Belfast

NI business leader appointed as Belfast City Centre’s first night czar

Alana Coyle has been elected as the new president of Belfast Chamber

New Belfast Chamber president hopes they can ‘be a critical friend’ to businesse...

Belfast chamber president Michael Stewart and Belfast chamber chief executive Simon Hamilton are pictured along with Rob Heron, managing partner at EY, Andrew Carter, chief executive, Centre for Cities and Tina Saaby, City Architect of Gladsaxe and former City Architect of Copenhagen at the BelFastForward 2022

BelFastForward conference hears city’s business voice demand delivery on big reg...
‘It increasingly feels like the time for dreaming is over and the time for doing is overdue,’ says Belfast Chamber President Michael Stewart
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Councillor Kate Nicholl, Lord Mayor of Belfast, Trevor Annon, Mount Charles Group, Michael Stewart, Belfast Chamber

‘Belfast has known adversity before. The Troubles, the Primark fire. You name it...

Paul Girvan MP, Shane Cooke, Neptune property director, Philip Hopper, duo construction project manager and Eamonn Burns, Neptune construction director

Neptune Group’s £6.5m investment to complete Ballyclare Relief Road by Autumn 20...

Martin McLean Senior Business Manager at Bank of Ireland is pictured with Michael Stewart, Belfast Chamber President

One week left to enter Belfast Chamber Business Awards

James Joyce, Business Development Director at Haymarket with Michael Stewart, Director of Hospitality at Haymarket

New bar and street food hangout, Haymarket, opens today

President of Belfast Chamber, Michael Stewart

Chamber sets out five priorities to ‘put city on the road to recovery’

President of Belfast Chamber Michael Stewart

Business owners ‘feel abandoned and ignored by out of touch Executive’

New Ballyclare development name agreed after ‘Monopoly board’ row

A Monopoly board

Ballyclare ‘Monopoly board’ street names row

Belfast BHF NI shop manager Jasmin Lawther, BHF NI Head Fearghal McKinney and President of Belfast Chamber Michael Stewart

BHF charity reopens its eight shops

Samantha Kirk, VP of Dynamic Signal is pictured with Darragh McCarthy, Founder and CEO of FinTrU alongside Michael Stewart, President of Belfast Chamber

Belfast Chamber appoints two of city’s tech leaders onto its board

Making Belfast a Christmas city and extended Sunday opening hours among ideas pu...
Making Belfast a Christmas capital, extending Sunday opening hours and stimulating city living are just some of the ideas the new President of Belfast Chamber has urged local businesses and politicians to support.
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An artist's impression of the new crematorium on the Doagh Road site.

£5m Newtownabbey crematorium project moves to ‘procurement stage’

Neil Gill bowling for Muckamore

Inspired Neil Gill fires Muckamore into Gallagher Challenge Cup semi-finals

The victorious Templepatrick CC First XI team with scorer Finn Lutton, NCU president Clarence Hiles and Tony Nicholl from Junior Cup sponsors GMcG Chartered Accountants. PICTURE: Duncan Elder

Junior Cup joy for Templepatrick

House Belfast

New hotel opens in Belfast - and it has its very own Whiskey Room

House Belfast directors Michael Stewart, left, and Alan Clancy

New House for Belfast opens doors to public

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