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
If you are a parent, living in Northern Ireland, and like me have a child born in 2007, there’s an acronym that at the moment will likely be forming the basis o... Read More...
There were two rather striking coincidences from Ireland’s referendum result last week. The first being that 66% of the electorate voted to repeal the 8thamendm... Read More...
The Republic of Ireland is a different place to the country it was in 2014. In the last four years, both the ban on same-sex marriage and the total ban on abort... Read More...
New abortion law to be introduced in wake of referendum, according to Leo Varadkar. The proposed legislation will allow abortions during the first 12 weeks of p... Read More...
In a few weeks’ time, what has come to be dubbed the ‘World Cup of shame’ will kick off its first match in Moscow. What are we to expect from the Russian hosts ... Read More...
How do you solve a problem like the health service? In Northern Ireland, it seems like we’ve spent the last ten years publishing reports on this intractable iss... Read More...