Front Page wins at Hospitality Ulster awards

Olga Walls (second from right) presents the team from Front Page Bar, Ballymena with the Commitment to the Community Pub award at Hospitality Ulsterâ¬"s Pub of the Year Awards 2015. A total of 14 awards were presented at the prestigious ceremony, which was hosted by Cool FM presenter Pete Snodden and held at the La Mon Hotel and Country Club. The awards are the only industry recognised awards in Northern Ireland. This yearâ¬"s awards were supported by Britvic, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Dillon Bass, Drinks Inc., Heineken Northern Ireland, Henderson Foods, Molson Coors, Richmond Marketing, Tennentâ¬"s NI, and media partners, Sunday Life, Downtown Radio/Cool FM and Hospitality Review NI. For the full list of winners visit www.nipuboftheyear.org. Photo by Kelvin Boyes, Press Eye.

The judges at the event said “The winning pub is a true hub in its community; somewhere that has brought people together to achieve great things.

“Supporting a wide number of very worthy causes and initiatives, charity is most definitely close to home for this community focused pub.

“The owners have gone to great lengths to engage with the local business community for the common good, driving trade into the local economy as well as supporting the training and development of their own staff and inspiring young people to explore a career in hospitality.”

A total of 14 awards were presented at the prestigious ceremony, which was hosted by Cool FM presenter Pete Snodden and held at the La Mon Hotel and Country Club.