Politics

By Brendan Hennessy Around 20% of all households in Ireland are considered to be in energy poverty, as they spend more than 10% of their income on energy. The latest EU Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) data identify a continuing upward trend in households, both above and below the poverty line, struggling to […]

By Mannix Flynn In 2009 the then Lord Mayor of Dublin, Eibhlin Byrne, officially opened the new apartment blocks at York Street, Dublin. It was hailed, by some, as a flagship of social housing and regeneration. Before this, York Street housing had magnificent spaces outdoor and indoor – substantial back gardens, ample space in bedrooms […]

By Eoin O’ Malley At most a year out from the general election, we are beginning to see some shape to what will be the most formative election in recent memory. The 2011 election was called an ‘earthquake election’ by some political scientists because on many metrics we saw remarkable changes. It was one of […]

By Anton McCabe In the UK General Election of May 7th, there is only a possibility of three of the North’s 18 seats changing hands. They are East Belfast, South Belfast, and Fermanagh and South Tyrone. The Election also looks like being another stage in the weakening of the Ulster Unionist Party and the SDLP. […]

By Niall Crowley. At best we see migrants as workers, and all too often as a source of cheap, exploitable labour. Integration policy tends to be concerned with what happens in the workplace or out in the community. We fail to see migrants as entrepreneurs. Economic policy and economic development programmes don’t do diversity and […]

A roundtable is pushing a new narrative for governance in Northern Ireland

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