Andrew Kirke

Great to be back in person again to support our clients and contacts at #INVENT2022. Also rooting for everyone from #TeamQUB 🏆

@JP_Biz Great appointment

An interesting appointment for head of the NI Civil Service. Jayne Brady is an engineer by training, was a partner in a VC firm & may be unique among senior civil servants in listening her technology patents on her LinkedIn.

@handicaddie @GrahamCurry17 All the best Graham

Progress update: -Tech changes will be made by end of June. -In talks with one of the biggest tours in Europe. -Founder @GrahamCurry17 has made it to the final of Ireland's Student Entrepreneur Awards, pitching to win tomorrow. Big things coming this summer.. #wearecaddies

One week to go - proud to be on board as associate sponsors of the 1st @wibni All-island Female Entrepreneurs Conference, to be broadcast online and hosted live from Belfast and Dublin by @Sarah Travers and Norah Casey on 10 and 11 Jun, 9.30am-12.30pm lnkd.in/genmugJ

@pitchbooking @ScoreFC Good to see things getting back to normal!

Buzzing to have @ScoreFC and their five indoor 5 a side pitches now available to hire with @pitchbooking. It has been a long wait for indoor soccer to return in Coleraine! You can check out their availability and details at pitchbooking.com/partners/score… #coleraine #indoor #sport

@JP_Biz Regardless of the Protocol surely the gentleman involved could set up a shelf subsidiary in Italy and import these European bees to Ireland with no issues?

Aside from the SPS issues this is a test of what is a ‘Northern Ireland qualifying good’

@jonnycampbell89 I remain bullish on the prospects for the vaccine otherwise.

Great end to the week for our corporate team - congrats Paul!

@spoofed_uk I am crying with laughter. This is spectacular.

The Political Thriller of the Decade!! 🎥 #HandforthParishCouncil #Handforth #JACKIEWEAVER

@peterdonaghy Great news

There were 13,242 first COVID vaccine doses administered in NI yesterday (0.70% of the population), the second highest in a single day and the first day the weekly increase rate has topped 4% of the population. Scotland set a new daily record with 38,484; 0.71% of the population.

We're proud to be named #Experian most active #Legal Advisors for #Corporate M&A and #RealEstate deals in #NorthernIreland for the 6th year-in-a-row. tughans.com/latest-news/tu…

@JP_Biz Are we going to see border controls / posts on the island of Ireland to enforce this border then as the EU always insisted there would need to be?

DUP on Article 16

Great to see NI startups continually punching above their weight

@Crop_Safe Great work lads

Today, CropSafe is proud to announce our selection as a Pioneer, becoming the first Northern Irish company to represent. To date, Pioneer has now funded 190 companies and people, helping them with everything that’s necessary to boost from zero-to-one. cropsafe.io/blog/pioneer

@RaoulRuparel On 4/ is your point that a future UK govt could implement non regression bar in domestic legislation? If so is that not different from a legally binding international treaty? Surely it's unlikely a future UK government minded to implement such a bar would do so via treaty?

Ahead of a crucial week in Brexit talks, issue of level playing field (beyond state aid) has become a major obstacle to a deal. Especially around evolution/ratchet clauses. Both sides have got themselves into an ideological corner & are struggling to get out. Thread explaining 1/

A bit of good news on a bad news day..

@movetru Great work Naomi!

STILL IN SHOCK! Absolutely delighted to be the Enterprise Software Invent 2020 winner!!

@Rimbeux @MichaelAodhan Don't disagree that it's not historically been an issue, just that in my view the issues now, presenting an impasse to a deal, appear to primarily be state aid and fisheries (of all things). Good to chat with you!

@AKprofessional @MichaelAodhan This doesn’t tally with how NI became a WA core issue following lobbying from Ireland going back to 2015 that also took in US Congress. It’s not a proxy & if it is, then it’s about a show of unity. State Aid has become a thing under Johnson, as it’s a Cummings hobby horse

The. Bill. Does. Nothing. About GB-NI! That's a complete fallacy. It's about NI-GB and State Aid!

@Rimbeux @MichaelAodhan Use of that threat as part justification for the UKIM (which also addresses the potential for a repurposive EU interpretation of state aid law to preclude GB companies with NI operations benefiting from state aid) would seem to tell me that much.

@AKprofessional @MichaelAodhan Johnson comes at this from a pov that divergence is the whole point of Brexit, so there’s no point in it all unless UK has total freedom to go whatever direction. NI is clearly a barrier to that & also most important issue. Think it’s more the crux than a negotiation tool