Paul McErlean: Are you on a scale-up journey?
SOME of the most interesting people I know are accountants.
Paul McErlean: Saffron Business Summit led to fascinating stories
A FEW weeks back I was sitting at my computer late at night trying to write a speech I was going to make at Queen’s University’s Business School the next morning.
PAUL McERLEAN: Serious tourism investment and increased marketing spend must continue
AT a university reunion in England in May, one of my former basketball team mates, who is from the US, asked my advice on where to visit during his trip to Ireland this August.
Paul McErlean: Some lessons Northern Ireland could take from the Basque Country
ON the afternoon of last week’s ‘glorious’ Twelfth, I found myself on a guided cycle tour of the beautiful Basque city of Donostia San Sebastián, close to the French border in northwest Spain.
The stark challenges facing housing as populations rise
IT'S been confirmed that the population of this island has passed the seven million mark for the first time in 171 years.
We've just all seen that possible exists within the impossible . . .
"WITHIN the word impossible is embedded the word ‘possible’.
Business and the economy here have been built by people like Paddy McKillen
WHEN I think about it now, I wonder did my da start buying Renault cars after we joined what was then the EEC in 1975.
Michael's legacy is Colin Glen as a serious tourist attraction
THERE'S a big roundabout in west Belfast which many people pass through to take the back road to the airport or to get to Twinbrook and Lisburn.
Paul McErlean: New envoy Joe and Protocol can make two of our best assets
NORTHBROOKE Illinois is a suburb of Chicago and home to the Allstate Insurance corporation.
Paul McErlean: Let me tell you a Belfast Story . . .
LAST Monday night at about 7pm, I walked from a hotel on Piccadilly to another hotel, close to Westminster.
Paul McErlean: Sense of renewal and excitement created by new Belfast buildings is giving a real buzz
MY son and I were heading across the Westlink towards the M2 last week when he asked me about a very impressive building that looms large as you come over the brow of the hill at Carlisle Circus.
We're back out - celebrating inspiration, ambition, ideas and innovation
ONE of the things that some people in business didn’t miss during the pandemic is events - launches, business breakfasts, awards ceremonies, staff socials etc.
Collie was an inspirational leader and innovator - and a GAA man of serious renown
THREE months ago this Thursday, myself and one of my colleagues from work spent an interesting morning in Áras Uí Chonghaile, the James Connolly Visitor Centre on the Falls Road.
Paul McErlean: Jim proved you can treat people with respect and still be successful in business
While a copy of The Irish News was regularly in my house growing up, I only became aware of it properly when I went to St Pat’s Armagh.
Paul McErlean: A Catalyst for economic change in Belfast's Titanic Quarter
AT the end of March, I attended the ten-year celebration of Titanic Belfast, the visitor attraction that has transformed tourism here.