Dr Meghan O'Sullivan is this years Hoboroad's Woman of the year. The international diplomat and Harvard professor is currently working hard in Belfast trying to help our politicians sort out flags the past and Orange Order marches. We wish her all the best.
Vladimir Putin the Russian leader is this year's man s of the year. Love him or loathe him you cannot ignore him. He is a real leader of his people. And I expect we will be hearing a lot more from him in 2014.
Antrim and Newtownabbey:
Airport
Antrim
Ballyclare
Dunsilly
Glengormley Urban
Macedon
Three Mile Water
Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon:
Armagh
Banbridge
Craigavon
Cusher
Lagan River
Lurgan
Portadown
Belfast:
Balmoral
Black Mountain
Botanic
Castle
Collin
Court
Lisnasharragh
Oldpark
Ormiston
Titanic
Causeway Coast and Glens:
Ballymoney
Bann
Benbradagh
Causeway
Coleraine
Limavady
The Glens
Derry and Strabane:
Ballyarnett
Derg
Faughan
Foyleside
Sperrin
The Moor
Waterside
Fermanagh and Omagh:
Enniskillen
Erne East
Erne North
Erne West
Mid Tyrone
Omagh
West Tyrone
Lisburn and Castlereagh:
Castlereagh East
Castlereagh South
Downshire East
Downshire West
Killultagh
Lisburn North
Lisburn South
Mid and East Antrim:
Ballymena
Bannside
Braid
Carrick Castle
Coast Road
Knockagh
Larne Lough
Mid Ulster:
Carntogher
Clogher Valley
Cookstown
Dungannon
Magherafelt
Moyola
Torrent
Newry, Mourne and Down:
Crotlieve
Downpatrick
Newry
Rowallane
Slieve Croob
Slieve Gullion
The Mournes
North Down and Ards:
Ards Peninsula
Bangor Central
Bangor East and Donaghadee
Bangor West
Comber
Holywood and Clandeboye
Newtownards
Ireland has for the first time been named as the “best country for business” in rankings carried out by top US financial magazine Forbes.
Ireland has moved up from sixth position in the influential rankings last year. The rankings are determined by grading 145 nations on 11 different factors: property rights, innovation, taxes, technology, corruption, freedom (personal, trade and monetary), red tape, investor protection and stock market performance.
Boris Johnson has appeared on Nick Ferraris radio show below is a Transcript:
LBC presenter Nick Ferrari: A man builds a house with four sides of rectangular construction. Each side having a southern exposure. A big bear comes along. What colour is the bear?
Boris Johnson: The bear is probably brown, I haven’t got a clue what colour the bear is. Nor is it relevant to this discussion.
Ferrari: White actually, because the bear is on the South Pole. [The house is actually at the North Pole] Let’s try another one.
Boris Johnson: Listen mate…
Nick Ferrari: Take two apples from three apples, what do you have?
Boris Johnson: You have… you’ve got loads of apples mate, you have got one apple left
Nick Ferrari: You say you’ve got one apple? You haven’t you’ve got two apples. So you are now on zero for two. Let’s do one more. I went to bed at eight o’clock last night…
Boris Johnson: I think the point that I made…
Nick Ferrari: You were the one that brought IQ into the conversation… I went to bed at eight o’clock in the evening and I wound up my clock to set the alarm to sound at nine o’clock in the morning. How many hours would I get before being woken by the alarm?
Boris Johnson: Well I slept like a log because I was looking forward to seeing you on LBC 97.3. We are waiting for some more sensible questions.
Nick Ferrari: You are declining are you?
Boris Johnson: All I am telling you… No one has said that IQ is the only measure of ability but what I have been saying repeatedly is that our system is letting down people who do have ability and could do much better.
Answer: Mr Ferrari would only have got one hour's sleep, because a wind-up alarm clock would have gone off at nine o'clock at night.
