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By Leila Steed20 January 2021
A Northern Ireland-based tree surgeon found himself under the multi-coloured light of a picture-perfect rainbow while carrying out work on his new Hinowa spider platform.
Ian McClelland, who’s business operates under the same name, was using his Hinowa Lightlift 26.14 Performance IIIS to trim fir trees for client when the rainbow appeared behind him. The sight was captured by McClelland’s client who took several photos of the garden scene on his mobile phone. The tree surgeon, who was concentr
MDI acts against pandemic plastic pollution
MOUNT DESERT ISLAND Almost two months ago, 8,000 bales of plastic waste, weighing nearly 10,000 tons, set sail on the Atlantic aboard a Northern Ireland cargo ship, the Sider London. Two of the bales fell into Penobscot Bay during offloading operations at the Sprague Energy Terminal in Searsport. Remnants of plastic from the incident drifted along the shores of Sears Island last month. The plastic waste was bound for Orrington, the home of Penobscot Energy Recovery Co. (PERC), to be burned and processed into energy.
Material Research President Jim Vallette used this recent occurrence to explain the complexities of Maine’s plastic waste system at last week’s virtual meeting hosted by Indivisible MDI. Vallette and others from his Southwest Harbor-based research organization have been following plastic for over 30 years. “It was really a shock to see waste come into the U.S. because waste follows the path of leas
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The millions of Irish girls and women who emigrated to North America in the 19th and early 20th centuries tend to be remembered, if at all, as domestic servants, cooks, wives and mothers.
A reputation for diligence and rectitude cast them as the unsung heroes of a diaspora that went on to conquer US business and politics.
But it turns out there is an untold chapter in the Irish emigrant experience, because many girls and women were in fact sex workers, thieves and drunkards, even killers, and they filled the prisons of Boston, New York and Toronto.
Covid-19: NI live events staff struggle as sound of silence continues
By Alan Haslam
The live music and events industry has been a high-profile casualty of the coronavirus crisis.
We all miss the collective, communal excitement of the gigs and festivals banned under current restrictions.
But what about those who work behind the scenes?
The future looks highly uncertain for sound engineers, lighting designers, riggers, backline techs and others who help to bring live events to life.
Approximately 7,500 people work in Northern Ireland s live events industry and most have been without employment since the pandemic struck last March.
Despite the arrival of vaccines and rapid-turnaround tests, there are still uncertainties about when they can return to their jobs.
Regulating medical devices in the UK
What you need to do to place a medical device on the Great Britain, Northern Ireland and European Union (EU) markets.
From:
MHRA) is responsible for regulating the UK medical devices market.
This guidance provides information on the UK system, including for:
getting your device certified
MHRA
This guidance is divided into sections on the different rules that apply in Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the EU. Great Britain is England, Wales and Scotland.
For Northern Ireland, different rules apply to those in Great Britain. For more information on the regulatory system for medical devices in Northern Ireland, please see Regulation of medical devices in Northern Ireland below.