Art
John Doherty
Lucian Freud & me: The real 'Donegal Man' ...

Irish Examiner - A major exhibition of Lucian Freud's work is currently on at Titanic Belfast. Marc O'Sullivan spoke to two of the key people who were involved with the German/British painter

Pat Doherty has the distinction of having sat for three portraits – two paintings and a copperplate etching – by the legendary British painter Lucian Freud. 

Several copies of the etching feature in the exhibition, Lucian Freud’s Etchings: A Creative Collaboration, which has just launched at Titanic Belfast in partnership with the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

Lucian Freud & me: The real 'Donegal Man' on his encounters with the great artist
Art
John Doherty
Freud exhibition with new immersive experience ...

A free exhibition celebrating the work of Lucian Freud has opened at Titanic Belfast, in collaboration with the V&A, giving visitors the chance to view over 60 of the renowned artist’s famous etchings as well as a new immersive experience created by the world-famous attraction.

Lucian Freud’s Etchings: A Creative Collaboration exhibition runs from Friday 2nd May until Tuesday 30th September in the Andrews Gallery on Level 2 of Titanic Belfast and charts Freud’s development as an etcher, from his early, tentative explorations to his later mastery of flesh and form through line.

Artwork featured in the exhibition will include Bella in Her Pluto T-Shirt (1995); Woman Sleeping (1995); Self-portrait: Reflection (1996); Pluto Aged 12 (2000) and Donegal Man (2007) – which has a special connection to Titanic Belfast as the sitter was Pat Doherty, the visitor attraction’s Chairman.

Freud exhibition with new immersive experience opens at Titanic Belfast
John Doherty
Harcourt Hotels Collection report strong start ...

The Harcourt Collection has announced a strong start to 2025, reporting group revenues up by 10% for the first quarter compared to the same period last year. The Ulster properties, Lough Eske Castle, Redcastle Hotel & Spa and Titanic Hotel Belfast, have been standout performers, recording an impressive 16% growth in total revenues year-on-year. The significant uplift was further bolstered by the €5 million investment in the Donegal Suites extension at Lough Eske Castle, launched late last year, which has helped deliver a remarkable 23% increase in revenue, against the same quarter in 2024.

Hotels
John Doherty
Think you know Belfast? Try this gem of the ...

Belfast Newsletter - Well well well. There is a whole different side to Belfast that I suggest many people have been totally unaware of - to their loss. So you are familiar with city centre shopping, Belfast City Hall, The Cathedral Quarter, the Ulster Museum and Botanic Gardens, the Golden Mile, the Victoria Square and environs, Lisburn Road and the Troubles Tours in the west of the city?

But what about the Titanic Quarter as a weekend leisure designation?
Never thought of it? Me Neither.

But that all changed with a stay in the delightful Titanic Hotel.

Think you know Belfast? Try this gem of the Titanic Hotel Belfast on the 'hidden' Maritime Mile
John Doherty
Harcourt Reveals First Phase of €20m Hotel ...

One of Ireland’s largest privately held companies, Harcourt Developments, has unveiled the results of the first phase of a €20 million investment in its hotel portfolio - The Harcourt Collection, at County Donegal’s five-star Lough Eske Castle.

The new additions are named “The Donegal Suites” and showcase furnishings, artworks and amenities sourced and created by local craftspeople and businesses. Overseen by Harcourt Developments Creative Director, John Doherty, interior features include working with world famous local tweed weavers Magee 1866.

Harcourt Reveals First Phase of €20m Hotel Portfolio Investment

It's the treble for Titanic Hotel Belfast

It's the treble for Titanic Hotel Belfast

Love Belfast - Three is the magic number as staff at Titanic Hotel Belfast celebrate the treble this week, having received the overall award of Ireland’s Hotel Restaurant of the Year, the regional award of Ulster Hotel Restaurant of the Year and the Great Place to Stay Quality Award. This is the second consecutive year the hotel has been recognised by the Irish Hotels Awards winning these three awards for excellence with the ‘Wolff Grill’ restaurant being judged on the standard of food and service for which it has become renowned.

Belfast: The great escape - How and why Belfast is buzzing with visitors from the Republic

Belfast: The great escape - How and why Belfast is buzzing with visitors from the Republic

Irish Independent - Belfast is fast becoming the social capital of Ireland as hotels, restaurants and pubs fill with a flood of weekend visitors from as far away as Cork and Kerry.

City centre hotels are reporting up to 80pc of their weekend trade is southerners who are flooding into the city to enjoy wining and dining with fewer restrictions. Iarnród Éireann announced yesterday that all trains to Belfast from Dublin Connolly were booked out.

Non-essential retail re-opens in Ireland

Non-essential retail re-opens in Ireland

BBC News - Non-essential retail was allowed to re-open today in the Republic of Ireland, bringing a boost for the economy in the North-West. While business leaders welcomed the move, there were also calls for the Irish government to continue to support traders as they emerge from a lengthy lockdown.

BBC News interviewed shoppers and the manager of Letterkenny Shopping Centre in the border county of Donegal for their opinion.

Dungeons & Dragons begins NI shoot

Dungeons & Dragons begins NI shoot

Principal photography is underway at Titanic Studios in Northern Ireland on Dungeons & Dragons, the much-anticipated feature adaptation based on the iconic role-playing game.

Chris Pine and Michelle Rodriguez star, with recent reports also naming Hugh Grant and Regé-Jean Page among the supporting cast.

Park West Home to "Best Workplaces in Ireland"

Park West Home to "Best Workplaces in Ireland"

Park West is home to two winners of the Great Place to Work Ireland awards – with Certification Europe recognised as a ‘Best Small Workplace’, and Workhuman winning two awards – Ireland’s #2 ‘Best Large Workplace’ and ‘Best Workplace for Women’.

Niamh Graham, vice-president of global HR at Workhuman said, “Our Irish workforce is made up of 45 per cent women and we have successfully and substantially increased our female demographic in technology in our Tech HQ in Park West, Dublin.

Workhuman's Irish workforce to double to 800 staff by 2023

Workhuman's Irish workforce to double to 800 staff by 2023

Irish Independent - HR tech unicorn expanding in Park West offices as revenues approach $1bn.

Workhuman, the Irish HR technology company which achieved unicorn status last year with a valuation of $1.2bn (€1bn), is planning to double its Irish workforce to 800 people by 2023.

Dungeons & Dragons to film in Belfast

Dungeons & Dragons to film in Belfast

The Knowledge - Paramount’s forthcoming feature adaptation of Dungeons & Dragons will film at Titanic Studios in Belfast, the facility that housed all eight series of Game of Thrones.

According to recent reports (Deadline and Variety), Chris Pine has been tapped to star in the feature, which is based on the iconic role-playing game from Wizards of the Coast, a company which became a subsidiary of Hasbro in the late 1990s.

Global tech firm to occupy part of Bellingham waterfront’s Granary Building

Global tech firm to occupy part of Bellingham waterfront’s Granary Building

The Bellingham Herald - A global technology company has signed a lease to occupy a major portion of the Granary Building on Bellingham’s waterfront, potentially bringing in 120 jobs.

The new company is Körber, which provides supply chain solutions for businesses around the world. According to its website, the company has around 10,000 employees in more than 100 locations.

Harcourt Developments made the official announcement at the Port Commission meeting on Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 8.

High Flyers: From country boy to a Titanic role in top hotel

High Flyers: From country boy to a Titanic role in top hotel

The Irish Times - In the High Flyers spotlight this week is Adrian McNally (50), general manager of Titanic Hotel Belfast, which has been named Northern Ireland's leading hotel by the Global Travel Awards for the third year running.

Titanic Hotel scoops World Travel Awards for third time

Titanic Hotel scoops World Travel Awards for third time

Belfast Telegraph - In the toughest of trading years for the hospitality sector, Titanic Hotel Belfast has been awarded the most sought-after title of ‘Northern Ireland’s Leading Hotel’, for the third time in a row, at the World Travel Awards 2020.

Plan your Eske-ape: Take time to relax in one of Ireland’s most sought-after and captivating luxury resorts

Plan your Eske-ape: Take time to relax in one of Ireland’s most sought-after and captivating luxury resorts

Sunday Life - IN these Covid-19 restricted times, plans are impossible to make. The R number currently denies society's movement under the second serious lockdown of this pandemic, but there will come a time again when relaxation, recreation and a romantic retreat are the relevant R words of choice.

Condé Nast Awards Lough Eske Castle

Condé Nast Awards Lough Eske Castle

Condé Nast Traveler - Harcourt’s 5-star Donegal hotel has been named the second best hotel in Ireland in the Condé Nast Traveler, Readers’ Choice Awards.

The Condé Nast Traveler, Readers’ Choice Awards, which were announced after the votes of more than 700,000 people around the world took part in the magazine’s annual survey were counted, ranked Lough Eske castle in County Donegal in the North West of Ireland as the second best hotel in Ireland.

'It tastes even better than I remember': Lockdown drought ends in Donegal as bars re-open

'It tastes even better than I remember': Lockdown drought ends in Donegal as bars re-open

Irish News - For Derry man Mickey McLaughlin, it was a long drought.

As he downed his first pint of draught Guinness at The Harbour Bar in Buncrana yesterday, it was everything he had been dreaming of for three months.

“The days couldn’t go in quick enough. It tastes even better than I remember,” the Creggan man said.

The Titanic is now toast of Protestant - and Catholic - Belfast

The Titanic is now toast of Protestant - and Catholic - Belfast

The Oldie - Mary Kenny loved her fully immersive experience in Ulster

It may be hard to believe, but the world’s leading tourist attraction is in… Belfast.

At least, that is the claim made by the impressive Titanic Quarter complex in Ulster’s city, site of the once-great dockyards of Harland and Wolff, where the Titanic was proudly built before her fatal voyage in April 1912.

National Workplace Wellbeing Day | Looking after your wellbeing

National Workplace Wellbeing Day | Looking after your wellbeing

Harcourt is working with all our teams spread across the globe to bring some health and wellbeing tips for National Workplace Wellbeing Day 2020. We understand that this year has presented many challenges and 2020 differs tremendously to previous years.

We want to mark this important date by reaching out and sharing useful activities and advice to offer small but positive distractions to the lives of our valued team members

Harcourt Developments embarks on anti-Covid charity drive

Harcourt Developments embarks on anti-Covid charity drive

Sunday Business Post - The building group has set up donation points at all its properties to help support frontline medical staff battling to quell the coronavirus. Harcourt Developments which owns regional shopping centres around the country, has set up donations points at each of its properties to support hospital patients and frontline medical staff during the Covid-19 crisis.

Kind nature of Long Walk shoppers to feature on RTE One

Kind nature of Long Walk shoppers to feature on RTE One

Talk of the Town - The Long Walk Shopping Centre and their customer’s efforts to help people working on the front line and suffering from Coronavirus are set to be recognised on TV tonight.

Since the pandemic began the centre has set up a collection point for essential items.

Park West secures new tenants

Park West secures new tenants

Irish Times - The success of the Park West scheme continues with four lettings amounting to a total of 34,634sq ft agreed so far this year. While one deal saw the increase of existing tenant Sysnet’s footprint within Block 71 from 10,700sq ft to 15,000sq ft, the other transactions saw the arrival of three new companies to the west Dublin business park. In the first instance, medical services giant Affidea made the decision to relocate its Irish head office to Park West, taking 4,500sq ft in Block 71

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HBO ends tenancy at Titanic Studios, the home of Game of Thrones

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HBO ends tenancy at Titanic Studios, the home of Game of Thrones

WinterisComing.net - It’s been quite a run for HBO and Titanic Studios in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where the network shot much of the footage for Game of Thrones for 10 years. But that’s all about to change, as the premium cabler has given notice that it plans to vacate its home in the Titanic Quarter

Amazon strikes deal at Titanic Quarter

Amazon strikes deal at Titanic Quarter

Estates Gazette - The online retail giant has occupied a 40,000 sq ft unit in Channel Commercial Park at the Belfast Harbour site since late 2018.

However, Titanic Quarter, which is controlled by Dublin-based Harcourt Development, has secured planning to demolish this site to make way for a new, larger facility.

The online retail giant will lease a circa 80,000 sq ft warehouse facility as well as a three-tiered van storage centre accommodating 479 spaces.