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Published in: Home: OpinionThank you, Derry Girls, for telling the story of my complicated adolescence
Like the Derry Girls, I was 18 when I voted for the Good Friday Agreement. The show perfectly captured the darkness,...
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Published in: Home: AnalysisA panicked DUP flounders as Northern Ireland embraces change
Northern Ireland has changed – and unionism has been left behind. But if the party can’t dominate, it won’t participate
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Published in: Home: OpinionIt’s not the break-up of Britain… yet
Election results show that the ground is shifting in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. But the future of the UK...
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Published in: Home: OpinionWhile ‘beergate’ dominates headlines, UK politics quietly changes forever
The pundits of London’s metropolitan media are focused on Keir Starmer’s curry. But they’re all missing the bigger story
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Published in: Home: AnalysisSinn Féin could win the Northern Irish election. Here’s what that means
As a younger generation leaves the old sectarian divisions behind, new political alliances are forming
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Published in: Home: FeatureWill the ‘peace babies’ change Northern Ireland’s politics forever?
Young people born since the Good Friday Agreement are ditching traditional identity labels and demanding action on...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionOn the Twelfth, Northern Ireland returns to its past. But its future looks different
Though bonfires, burning effigies and cries of ‘No surrender’ suggest the 17th century, Northern Ireland is...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe British state still wants to stop Bloody Sunday soldiers taking the stand
The people of Derry know the truth. The question is, will it be spoken? The Soldier F verdict implies not
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe DUP’s first minister nomination could return Northern Ireland to crisis
In the appointment of Paul Givan as the party’s choice to replace Arlene Foster, the DUP is doubling down on its...
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Published in: Live discussionsIs Britain breaking up?
With Scotland voting on Thursday in an election that could lead to a second independence referendum and increased...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionNorthern Ireland's riots are the death spasms of a broken Britain
The English ruling class has spent decades neglecting Northern Ireland. This week’s violence in Belfast was the...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsMost Northern Irish voters want DUP’s dark money revealed, research suggests
Northern Ireland Electoral Commission calls for powers to publish political donations retrospectively, including...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Knowing your place
Thinking of some lines of poetry by Derek Mahon.
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Published in: HomeScottish-Palestinian doctor taken to ‘New IRA meeting’ by MI5 and tried on terror charges
GP says he doesn’t know much about Northern Irish politics and faces years in jail.
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationThe Northern Irish ghost companies that mask crime worldwide
Exploitation of workers, corruption and money-laundering, all kept in the shadows by lax regulation. Could Northern...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionIs the DUP about to lose Belfast?
The Democratic Unionists hold three of Belfast's four constituencies. Can they cling onto any of them?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Irish border contradictions and chaos: how will Brexit affect Northern Ireland?
Such an intractable situation suggests that since Brexit’s genesis, the UK’s only land frontier with the EU has been...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTory posturing over soldier’s crimes could worsen violence in Northern Ireland
As more shocking details emerge from the Ballymurphy inquiry, memories are being stirred – and Tory MPs are being...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLeft behind by Northern Ireland’s neoliberal peace
Recent events have exposed how Northern Ireland hasn’t experienced peace as much as a cold war. The structural...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionBloody Sunday and how the British empire came home
The events of 30 January 1972 in Northern Ireland weren’t an aberration. Britain has been in the business of killing...