Travelrobe Is Recommending A Belfast airport hotel with parking This Holiday Season

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The Airport Parking Hotels and Lounges site Travelrobe is recommending a
Belfast airport hotel with parking this holiday season, noting that this is the time of year when excess is never too much and that a bit of pampering is well deserved.

Having gone through a year like 2009 where not just Britain but the whole world witness a financial meltdown in almost every economy. Tis the time to be merry and what better way than the privilege of spending the night before a flight at a Belfast airport hotel with parking .

Lots of hotels around airports are preparing to celebrate the Holiday season by offering joiner parties where individuals and or companies join others to have their yearend parties, and if you’ve decided to travel around that time you can book with a hotel to join the party with a Belfast airport hotel with parking .

For others, peace and quiet might be what the doctor ordered and a Belfast airport hotel with parking before an early morning flight is an option to be considered, prebooking can save customers money on any of the options that is presented by www.travelrobe.org.

Mark Felix Travelrobe MD said in a statement recently, that not many people realize how convenient a hotel with parking is before a flight, and if they can afford it they should this holiday season.

Airport hotels all offer transfers to and from the hotel and airport. You can also book an airport hotel for the night of your return and still take advantage of the parking offers available. Some of the hotels offered by www.travelrobe.org include Crowne Plaza, Sheraton, Marriott, Holiday Inn, Hilton plus many other fine hotels which travelers can choose at any UK airport.

As one of the world's busiest airports Heathrow in particular has a range of Luxury to Budget hotels with parking that are conveniently located and offers both business and leisure travelers all the comforts and conveniences one would expect from quality airport hotels with parking and much more.

This holiday season the majority of airport hotels with parking will have reduced rates compared to previous years and it’s all due to the current financial crisis that everyone has endured in 2009, so if it’s visible and convenient customers should take advantage of a Belfast airport hotel with parking presented by www.travelrobe.org this holiday season.
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flyglobespan launches weekly service to Toronto

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Belfast International Airport launched a new long-haul destination today with a new flyglobespan transatlantic flight from the airport.

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The web-based airline launched a weekly flight to Toronto's Hamilton International Airport - part of a massive UK-wide programme to Canada from 13 UK and Irish airports.

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The airline is already well known to Belfast travellers- having launched a service to Orlando Sanford last year - which is proving very popular.

Chairman Tom Dalrymple is delighted at this expansion of his Belfast programme, as he is keen to extend the company's long-haul routes.

"The key factors of load factor and fuel price are even more important on these longer routes, and therefore the flyglobespan model that has worked so well on short-haul routes fits well into the long-haul market, delivering low seat prices.

"We have a lean, very efficient organisation that allows us to offer extremely competitive fares in all our different classes and price is still the key driver.

The airline's parent company, the Globespan Group has 30 years experience of offering Canadian holidays and Dalrymple sees flyglobespan's 2007 expansion there as an natural extension of their expertise.

John Doran, managing director at Belfast International Airport said:
"We are delighted to welcome another transatlantic destination to our expanding route network and the second with FlyGlobespan within the last six months. With the strong links between Northern Ireland and the Toronto region we are confident that this will be a popular route for Canadian visitors to Northern Ireland as well as local travellers heading to the Toronto region."

Alan Clarke, Chief Executive, Northern Ireland Tourist Board, said "NITB welcomes today's announcement as more good news for tourism. The increase in direct international flights and the resulting improved access should help to ensure that 2007 is another successful year for NI tourism. Flyglobespan's transatlantic flights from Belfast International will provide even better opportunities to target Canadian holidaymakers and business tourists."

Most of the flyglobespan transatlantic routes offer three levels of service on board from Economy to Business Class.

Prices to Toronto start from £99 including taxes.

As with all flyglobespan flights, passengers can book flight only or chose to add on transfers and/or accommodation. All flight, holiday, & city break details are available on www.flyglobespan.com

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At Easter, I'm reminded that Jesus lives in Ireland

By Grant Swank

The attractive red head heard our speech slant to conclude we were from the US. Therefore, when my wife and I left the village shop, the stranger approached to ask, "Are you from America?" Her brogue was definitely Northern Ireland.

We replied in the affirmative. Then we continued to chat, for Irish are especially friendly. She next gave away a code. She said, "My husband is returning from a mission in India." That word "mission" translated as "Christian" to me.

"Oh, so he was on a Christian witness mission there?" I asked. The answer was Yes. And with that we realized that the three of us were believers.

"Would you come to our home for tea?" So we did.

And then after tea in their lovely abode, they treated us to lunch in a Broughshane eatery. Just plain terrific and more of the same was forthcoming during the two weeks' stay in that manicured country.

It seemed that when we turned to right and left, we came upon believers.

On our first Sunday there, we attended the First Presbyterian Church in Broughshane. All were dressed in their Sunday-go-to-meeting best except for my wife and me. We had not packed upscale clothing, settling for casual. But that did not deter parishioners from welcoming us royally.

That Sunday afternoon we drove to Glenarm to visit the famous Walled Garden. While seated on the Tea Room's outdoor patio, we came upon two elderly women who motioned for us to sit at their table. After about half an hour's conversation, I realized they were particularly articulate.

"Are you both teachers?"

The one responded she was an art teacher. The other said "Uganda and Nigeria."

My wife asked: "Are you a missionary?" The woman said Yes.

I asked: "Catholic?" She said Yes.

I then said, "I am a minister." She asked: "Religion or government?" I answered: "Not government!" We chuckled at the response.

We continued conversing, realizing of course that in Ireland there has been over the years much tension between Catholics and Protestants, sometimes turning quite bloody. But at the tea table there were two believing Protestants with two believing Catholics having their Sunday afternoon time of their lives.

When we were ready to bid farewell, we four stood. Then I said, "Let us pray together." With that we held hands as I asked the Lord to bless our lives for Jesus' sake.

In the evening, my wife and I attended the Broughshane Gospel Hall. After, we conversed with a young woman in the parking lot. Our conversation ended with her and two children inviting us to their lovely estate the next Tuesday morning — for tea, of course. Naturally, we closed our visit in prayer. Jesus had been our unseen Guest.

All in all, we were invited into about half a dozen strangers-turned-friends' homes in a two-week stay in Northern Ireland. Quite the pleasant surprise!

At the close of that first Sunday, I phoned an Irish friend touring the United States at the same time we were in Northern Ireland. I said: "In the morning we were Presbyterian. In the afternoon Catholic. And in the evening Brethren. So in less than twenty-four hours we have done what we can do for the peace of Ireland!"

The second Sunday morning we were invited to another Presbyterian Church where once again we were greeted with warm hearts. James and Irene were our host and hostess who lived in the spacious home adjoining the 1709 farmhouse we inhabited via a house swap with a young couple who lived in Lisburn. The farmhouse was given them by the fellow's in-laws. So while we enjoyed their Broughshane dwelling, they enjoyed our Maine cottage.

After church, James and Irene invited us to chicken dinner in their home. Then James played chauffeur, driving us till nearly midnight around the Antrim Scenic Coastal Route. Daylight stays till about 11 o'clock during summer in Northern Ireland.. So we made the most of it.

Whether it was in a flower bedecked home, outside an eatery or on a tea room patio, we discovered ourselves closing conservation with prayer. Jesus was our Friend in all cases — shared by newly come-upon-to-us believers.

Even when we went to Belfast International Airport for our return flight, we encountered a security policeman. In conversing, he mentioned that a section of Belfast was known as the "Bible belt."

Once again, the code language gave him away. I said, "And are you a Christian?" He answered Yes. We chatted further and then it was time for us to leave him.

"Before we say Good-bye, let's keep our eyes open as we pray." When I concluded with "Amen," my wife said to me later: "Did you see the tears in that man's eyes when we were praying?"

On the flight home I realized that we had been on a two-week mission ministry guided by Jesus in Northern Ireland. We had not only come upon the gorgeous scenery surrounding us in that country but the flowering in one soul after another.

For that we are especially thankful to Him.

© Grant Swank

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Plans for £128m city stadium unveiled

By Jim Gracey
Wednesday, 25 March 2009

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The Belfast Telegraph can today reveal an ambitious plan to build a new 25,000 seater football and rugby stadium in the heart of east Belfast.

An urban alternative to the ill-fated Maze national stadium, the £128m Blanchflower stadium development would be sited at Sydenham, close to major road, rail, ferry and air links.

The £66m stadium would be home to the Northern Ireland football team and Ulster Rugby’s major European games, hosting top local showpiece football fixtures such as the Irish Cup final.

The Ulster Rugby squad would report every day at a £10m National Training Centre, although Ravenhill would remain the traditional home of rugby.

And it will create 100 permanent jobs as well as provide a boost for the hard hit Northern Ireland construction industry.

The stadium, costing £66m, would be home to the Northern Ireland football team and Ulster rugby's major European games. It would also host top local showpiece football fixtures, such as the Irish Cup Final.

Glentoran FC will be the anchor club tenant, moving from their nearby antiquated Oval stadium, which would then be developed, probably as a business park.

A covered walkway, over the Sydenham by-pass, will link George Best City Airport to the stadium and a new railway halt on the Bangor line. Four thousand car parking spaces complete the transport picture.

The plans also include a 150-bedroom hotel, as part of the stadium design, modelled on similar projects in England at the Bolton, Coventry and MK Dons grounds.

There will be retail and leisure areas, including an indoor five-a-side football arena, as well as Belfast City Council managed community facilities.

The Ulster Rugby squad would report for work there every day at a £10m national training centre for football and rugby, complete with covered training facilities and artificial surfaces. Nearby Ravenhill will remain the traditional home of rugby with only major revenue-generating fixtures, like the Heineken Cup, played on the new turf.

Gaelic Games will not be involved, as they would have been at the Maze, because of the GAA's expressed wish to maintain their Belfast presence at Casement Park in the west of the city.

The ambitious plan will have a few hurdles to clear.

The absence of Gaelic Games apart, it sounds like a good news story for Northern Ireland sport, one that ticks many of the boxes the Maze did not for its opponents, in terms of location, size, cost and transport.

However, there is a question mark with regard to the current home of the Northern Ireland football team, Windsor Park.

Football's governing body, the Irish FA, Ulster Rugby and the GAA were united in their early support for the Maze. But agendas, and personalities, have changed since then, particularly at the IFA.

Stormont politicians and Belfast City Council have reacted more positively to private presentations of the Belfast model than they did to the Maze.

Ulster Rugby sources have signalled a willingness to come on board for Heineken Cup-style European games, giving them twice the capacity of Ravenhill, and to base their Ulster professionals at the proposed national training centre.

But, despite being kept firmly in the loop, IFA chiefs remain non-committal.

Under deposed chief executive Howard Wells and go-ahead former president Jim Boyce, the IFA momentum was firmly in favour of a move away from rundown Windsor to a new state-of-the-art international stadium, wherever it may be.

A legal battle was shaping up as the IFA even prepared to break the terms of their 100-year rental agreement with stadium owners Linfield.

But with the forced departure of Mr Wells, the emphasis has appeared to shift back to redeveloping Windsor, so seriously starved of Government funding in comparison to other sports down the years, that its capacity has shrunk from 40,000 to 12,500, with the bizarre sight of a fire engine stationed alongside its remaining old wooden stand, during international games, under health and safety rules.

The crucial question for football, and the Stormont Executive, who will be expected to provide capital funding for the Blanchflower project, is where they will secure best value for the money Sports Minister Gregory Campbell has said he will divert from the Maze to boost the three sports and their facilities.

Windsor is seen as difficult to develop in terms of planning permission in a built-up area and would continue to be used solely for football.

Blanchflower is zoned for a vast playing fields area, whose current users will be accommodated in the new design. It will host more than one sport, with community and commercial aspects to make it self-financing.

Project manager Gilbert Graham said, however: “We are not in the business of talking down Windsor. We prefer to talk up our own project.

“It offers a great opportunity and showcase for Northern Ireland sport in the vacuum left by the Maze.

“It will create jobs, it will encourage investment and give this country sporting facilities to be proud of as the London 2012 Olympics approach.

“It will encompass everything that is good about the new Northern Ireland going forward.

“We've held exploratory talks with all the interested parties — football, rugby, their supporters, Government and the city council.

“They've seen our plans and the response has been largely positive.

“This was never meant to be a rival or alternative to the Maze, or to Windsor, for that matter. It was on the drawing board all through the Maze process.

“Our intention was to build a junior stadium but with the collapse of the Maze project there is a gap to be filled and we are ready to meet the need.

“Our plans are on the table. What we require now is a firm commitment... from the Government, from rugby and from football, telling us where they want to go. We can then build it in 18 months.”

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