Politics

Making sense of political events, decisions and ideas directly affecting Northern Ireland. Given their geographical proximity, events in Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland will be included in this section

Mike Nesbitt seeks the wrong pact for the wrong parliament

Connor DalyNovember 17, 2014

It is no secret that the Ulster Unionist Party desperately craves a return to Westminster, and like UKIP’s recent flirting with the Labour Party elsewhere, it i... Read More...

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I want to Make It Work

Connor DalyNovember 7, 2014

After the international plaudits and local prosperity that followed the 1998 peace agreement, division, tension and stalemate have typified the political set-up... Read More...

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QUB’s irrelevant referendum: Provoking a return to tribalism

Connor DalyOctober 17, 2014

Throughout my years as a student at Queen’s University and as Vice President of the Students’ Union, I would boast to friends and alumni that things weren’t the... Read More...

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“Where there is no vision, the people perish”

Connor DalySeptember 25, 2014

Despite differences in politics, generations and jurisdictions, there are many similarities between the Democratic Union Party and Fianna Fáil; both started out... Read More...

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Towards ‘a more perfect Union’

Jamie PowSeptember 17, 2014

In the preamble to the US Constitution the Framers, on behalf of the American people, state their principal purpose: ‘to form a more perfect Union’. The implica... Read More...

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Darling’s unionism: Striking the right chord

Connor DalyAugust 11, 2014

Next month’s Scottish independence referendum result clings on Alex Salmond’s ability to convince Scots that they would be better off on their own. How jealous ... Read More...

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