Lowy and his wife, photographer Marvi Lacar, won a Telly award for their Legacy short films. Ben Lowry: Northern Ireland seems to rely increasingly on just one pollster for data on attitudes to a border poll. Deputy Editor Dozens of tweeters said I wanted to fund a bridge to Scotland yet wanted to cut funds to disabled kids (yet I wrote on these pages recently that a bridge to GB was a “distant dream” and not viable financially — see link below). Campbell College. It was the beginning of an almost unending Twitter storm. The News Letter keeps copies of NIAO reports going back years. Or the one on St George’s Street near the Westlink, resold hours later for a £3.2m gain? Feel welcome to contact me for to discuss any business ventures. Ben Lowry and the team at Lowry Legal Services will help you to get moving through the extensive amount of paperwork in order to win your case. But I was stating my view, not the paper’s, and unlike the SDLP I always backed a single school system. An Andersonstown News columnist, Squinter, said my spending examples were “special needs; people on benefits; sick people”. As is obvious, any huge expansion in the number of people eligible for a benefit reduces the pool of money for beneficiaries in most need (eg the severely disabled). —, Deputy Editor of the News Letter, the world's oldest continuously published daily English language newspaper. Natural History Museum of Utah / Ennead Architects. Music. Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne and others -- "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" - Duration: 6:16. Two Sinn Fein MPs joined the fray: Chris Hazzard accused me of “spouting bile about vulnerable children” (a contemptible misrepresentation of my tweet) and Michelle Gildernew said I had “hit a new low”. In fact a department of education review into SEN has still not been finished 13 years later. But all are potentially limitless expenses that need monitored. Create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile and upload a portfolio of your best work. With a digital subscription, you can read more than 5 articles, see fewer ads, enjoy faster load times, and get access to exclusive newsletters and content. Ben Lowry is deputy editor of the Belfast News Letter. Ben Lowry is on Facebook. Create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile and upload a portfolio of your best work. I’m a Property Investor and serial entrepreneur living in South Wales. Auditors concluded that “an urgent review and overhaul of SEN policies and processes is needed to respond to rising costs and increasing demand”. David Goodhart, a commentator who has become sceptical about the impact of some liberal views, has warned that permanent outrage on social media (Twitter, Facebook etc) could make society ungovernable. The funeral of a Glengormley man who died following a road traffic collision on the Westlink at the weekend will take place on Saturday. June 2019. • Ben Lowry (@BenLowry2) is News Letter deputy editor, • Ben Lowry: Bridge to Scotland is a distant dream, • Ben Lowry in 2016: Prognosis for Stormont is bad if it can’t at last get NHS reform right, • Ben Lowry in 2016: Cowardice and dishonesty around abortion law in GB and Ireland, • Ben Lowry in 2017: Stormont should pioneer further welfare reform after initial successes. Welcome. On P8 today Sam McBride writes about the inability of our leaders even to install a head of the civil service. Thank you for reading this story on our website. Create a Portfolio. Whether you are just beginning the process of applying for disability benefits, or you have been denied benefits, Lowry Legal Services will fight to get you the benefits that you deserve. “This is significantly higher than the 2% of the school population anticipated by the department,” says the report. Sometimes it looks at things such as publicly owned sites flipped for profit. I am a journalist, who lives in Belfast. No favorite quotes to show; Favorites. Ben Lowry This Account will be mostly family,guitars, misc b.s. Ben … if your interested in Brazilian JiuJitsu,Judo, and Fitness go to other acct @the_sanctuary_bjj www.thesanctuarybjjandfitness.com Then he said: “If you punched any lower you’d hit the canvas.”. The report pointed out that nearly one in five pupils in NI has a reported special educational need, with 5.5% of the school population having a statement of SEN (a legally binding document that confirms the need). Yes, I did give those examples, because I have written before about how 212,000 people – one person in eight – in NI was on Disability Living Allowance before its reform (see link below). Other. Search Articles Articles. News Opinion Ben Lowry: There should not be an Irish language act, but it is too late — the DUP has agreed one There was a remarkable episode around an Irish language act this week. While I have your attention, I also have an important request to make of you. Work. Ben Lowry was Camille and Lena Winship's childhood crush. Ben Lowry: DUP still has to choose between managing this disaster or total rejection of it . This byline is mine, but I want my name removed. Bad use of public cash in Northern Ireland keeps happening, despite an Audit Office to expose it, so I shudder to think what would happen if there was no such scrutiny. View the profiles of people named Ben Lowry. The report is 70 pages long, and the full PDF of it is in the link below. Belfast. or. It’s plainly not sustainable yet Stormont says little about it because it sounds harsh to curb it. Find the best way to get in touch with Ben by joining Muck Rack. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Recommended for you About Ben Lowry. ©JPIMedia Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. My name’s Ben. Facebook. Deputy Editor. About Ben. LinkedIn. A series of experts later agreed with him that NI needs a smaller number of world class hospitals to improve health outcomes (see link below). Meanwhile, fiscal responsibility at Stormont is a remote prospect. Log In. January’s deal to restore Stormont finally included a cross party pledge to implement the latest expert report (Bengoa) calling for such reform. Ben Lowry: The hysterical response to my tweet shows how Northern Ireland could become ungovernable Thank goodness for the Northern Ireland Audit Office (NIAO). Ex-DUP man: Whatever becomes of Foster remember – her party sold out NI, Arlene Foster’s time as DUP leader coming to an end as 75% of her MLAs sign letter of no confidence. Twitter Search jobs Digital Archive Guardian Puzzles app Ben Lowry . Often the Audit Office is dealing with wider aspects of public expenditure such as why procurements in NI go over budget. Favorite Quotes. All three cases — disability, NHS, SEN — are part of the welfare safety net that is the hallmark of a decent society. 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And as to health, it was the highly respected civil servant Maurice Hayes who in 2000 led the first of multiple reviews into the NHS in NI. Education. Our journalism costs money and we rely on advertising, print and digital revenues to help to support them. I could have phrased my tweet more softly, but there is limited space in a tweet, and I was attacking the rising cost, not the children. The tribalism that defines Northern Irish politics may be crumbling, as voters identify less and less with either side, says the journalist Ben Lowry That puts me somewhere on the pro choice spectrum — see link below). Ben Lowrey. As it happens I strongly agree with the auditor, Kieran Donnelly, who said: “Support for pupils with SEN is a vital and valued service and the educational achievements of children with SEN are improving, which, of course is to be welcomed.”. Criticism became absurd. Sign Up. Join Facebook to connect with Ben Lowry and others you may know. The rise of, for example, autism in recent decades is a complex issue, and like everyone else I know families for whom it has caused immense challenges and anxiety. Like welfare reform and NHS reform it’s easy to duck it and let it soak of vast amounts of precious public funds”. It identified inconsistencies in the assessment of children and unacceptable delays. In 2018 the team won the National Geographic Wild to Inspire film short at the Sun Valley Film Festival. I tweeted out our story on NIAO report and said: “This is another colossal expenditure. By supporting us, we are able to support you in providing trusted, fact-checked content for this website. All views expressed are my own. This byline is for a different person with the same name. Ben Lowry: Ruth Dudley Edwards is fearless in the face of anonymous trolls Ruth Dudley Edwards joins us as a weekly columnist on Tuesday. One of the first responses to me came from the SDLP councillor Séamas de Faoite who claimed it showed the News Letter wanted to “go after funding for special educational needs instead of, say, the cost of our segregated education”. Temple Of Diana / José María Sánchez García. If you do not have time to read it, then it has a good five page executive summary. News Letter. Nowadays I focus on Property Investing and running my Hen Party Booking Agency. • The Audit Office Report into special educational needs (summary of it here and below that a link to it). Grateful Dead 50 . NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Ben Lowry, deputy editor of the unionist-leaning Belfast News Letter about the latest proposed Brexit deal, and why Northern Ireland's unionists oppose it. Given such stupidity and hysteria, it is no surprise that politicians rarely admit (let alone confront) a spiralling and unsustainable cost. Visit https://www.newsletter.co.uk/subscriptions now to sign up. Ben Lowry Verified Deputy Editor ... Twitter. By Ben Lowry. Are you a journalist? This week the Audit Office released a report on provision of Special Educational Needs (SEN). 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I hope that our fine western civilisation never becomes ungovernable, but if it does then I fear Northern Ireland will be first to fall. Articles by Ben Lowry on Muck Rack. I’ve had an unusual string of professions including Guitarist, Handstand Teacher, Circus Performer, Bodybuilder, and Podcast Host. And if you don’t even have time for that, you only need to read a one-page media release. The day that Camille died, Lena lost her virginity to him. 223.2k Followers, 1,835 Following, 2,429 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Benjamin Lowy (@benlowy) By Ben Lowry… Afficher les profils des personnes qui s’appellent Ben Lowry. Sometimes the NIAO examines big scandals such as Cash for Ash (RHI) or smaller ones such as the Bioscience and Technology Institute, which lost £2.2m of taxpayer funds. Now the Audit Office says that, three years later, “the significant issues in our 2017 report persist”. The Audit Office in a 2017 report outlined the need for the Education Authority to show value for money as to the provision of SEN amid rising costs and it made 10 recommendations. With the coronavirus lockdown having a major impact on many of our advertisers — and consequently the revenue we receive — we are more reliant than ever on you taking out a digital subscription. Remember the site on Belfast’s Malone Road sold for a £1m below its value, then resold the same day? But politicians are so terrified of being seen to close hospitals that they have ducked it. Find Ben Lowry's email address, contact information, LinkedIn, Twitter, other social media and more. 1990. Yet thousands of people attacked my tweet or liked other tweeters who did. I was accused of being a eugenicist and wanting euthansia for the disabled and so being a pro life hypocrite (in fact I had advocated modest abortion liberalisation in NI to avoid the horrific late term terminations of GB, which we will now have. 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