The threat to the future of the Northern Ireland Events Company has been lifted, it was revealed today.

The British government is expected to make its final decision on the draft budget for the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure next month.

GILLIAN O’SULLIVAN launched her sensational season at the Irish Indoor Championships in the Odyssey Arena, Belfast last February and she will be hoping for more of the same when she returns there in less than two months to launch her the build-up to the Olympics.

DARREN CLARKE and Graeme McDowell will head the field in the first European Challenge Tour event to take place in Northern Ireland when they tee up in the Northern

THE Irish Indoor Athletics Championships will be staged for the first time at the Odyssey Arena, Belfast, on February 15/16.

A special meeting of the Assembly’s spending watchdog has been called for today to discuss the removal of a senior official.

Northern Ireland is poised to stage a major international golf championship, it was revealed today.