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Devolution returns to Northern Ireland

February 7, 2024 by Alan Whysall Leave a Comment

“…there is no room for any future withdrawal from government by either veto-holding party, and if that happened, temporary steps to overcome the veto would need to be considered. Issues of longer-term institutional reform may now have slipped down the agenda. But they will have to be dealt with at some point, and a more informed debate on them would be helpful.”

What’s the Orange Order’s future?

July 12, 2023 by Brian O'Neill 2 Comments

“I was at a talk the other week by the Orange Order Historian Dr David Hume. It is a measure of how far we have come as a society that there was a talk about the Orange Order in the James Connolly Centre on the Falls Road.

Sinn Fein surge and the border

February 17, 2020 by Jonathan Evershed Leave a Comment

‘This created the space Sinn Féin needed for an election on its terms – in many respects the party had precisely the kind of election the UK Labour Party wanted and failed to get in 2019.’ Why SF won…

Crack of light in Northern Ireland

December 14, 2019 by Claire Mitchell 1 Comment

As Northern Ireland’s political plates shift, ‘of course, Johnson may not want to concede another independence referendum. But it seems certain that, one way or another, Scotland will not be able to tolerate indefinite Tories. And neither can we.’

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