Category: Features

The latest online feature articles from Licensed and Catering News.

A suite success

Veteran hotelier, Eugene McKeever crowned a successful career in hospitality recently when he collected an MBE from the Queen. Here, he reflects on a lifetime

Squaring up to change

Co-ordinated development is helping to transform opportunities for tourism and economic growth in Northern Ireland’s north-western corner…   Many of us who grew up in

No turning back

Mike Gatt, the Belfast-born GM of Maldron’s newly-rebranded hotel in the heart of Derry City, believes that the venue’s potential is firmly rooted in the

Talking up the Trade

Colin Neill feels that, economically at least, 2014 was ultimately a little disappointing, but he cautions that preoccupation with the negative aspects of the trade

Star Man

Michael Deane is one of the most recognisable faces of Ulster hospitality. Proprietor of seven diverse restaurants in Belfast, he shares the credit for transforming

The Midas Touch

His is, perhaps, one of the most recognisable faces across the hospitality trade in Northern Ireland today. Still hugely active at the age of 86,

Bound by bureaucracy

The scourge of red tape – the bane of many a busy publican’s life – is currently coming under intense scrutiny as a special inquiry