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Full coverage: Belfast

Belfast’s Harland & Wolff has been pulled from the EU’s shipbreaking list

The list details European and international shipyards for breaking down and recycling EU-flagged vessels but the Belfast yard did not provide the “necessary information for renewal”.

Jonathan Keane
16th Mar, 2026 - 3 min read

How Ukraine’s massive missile contract will transform Thales’s Northern Ireland footprint

Results published by the French defence and aerospace giant on Tuesday illustrate the scale of the UK's £1.6 billion order for more munitions for the Ukrainian front line, which will be manufactured in Belfast.

Michael Cogley
4th Mar, 2025 - 5 min read

A Belfast mining tech firm’s AIM exit rouses fresh concerns about listings

The manoeuvrings of a small Belfast firm, in its exit from London’s AIM, has once again thrust the dreary state of public listings in Ireland and the UK into the spotlight.

Jonathan Keane
4th Feb, 2025 - 3 min read

Harland and (the) Wolff at the door: “We can’t afford to let it fail”

The famous shipbuilding company enthuses many with what it could do for Belfast's manufacturing and economic future – if it can first find a way out of its immediate crisis.

Alice Chambers
14th Aug, 2024 - 8 min read

“We got ahead of the game and then AI in the last year has accelerated the process massively”

My Baggage has invested €250,000 in new AI capabilities to help ship personal effects through customs with greater ease. It’s now targeting more business in the US.

Jonathan Keane
16th Jul, 2024 - 4 min read

Sam Smyth: Belfast is Kenneth Branagh’s masterpiece, a perfectly realised story of a city on the edge of The Troubles

Sam Smyth grew up on the same Belfast road as Kenneth Branagh. The film reclaims the Protestant community from the lazy and the bigoted, he says.

Sam Smyth
29th Jan, 2022 - 6 min read
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