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Category Archives: Northern Ireland
A Model for Belfast Regeneration?
The amount of vacant land in Belfast city centre is equivalent to the size of 265 football pitches, according to the Forum for Alternative Belfast. If this space was used efficiently, at least 50,000 more people could live within 20 … Continue reading
Posted in Northern Ireland, Politics, Sunday Business Post
Tagged Belfast, Fab, Forum for Alternative Belfast, Mark Hackett, the Maze
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Belfast Unrest – the View from the Interfaces
Belfast is often described as a patchwork quilt of conflicting loyalties. Most residents live on streets that are overwhelmingly nationalist or unionist. Imposing ‘peace walls’ physically divide communities one each another. This has long been the case on the Suffolk … Continue reading
Posted in Northern Ireland, Politics, Sunday Business Post
Tagged flags, Jonny Byrne, loyalism, Neil Jarman, republicanism, unionism
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In Belfast
Apparently there were 43 illegal roadblocks in Belfast on Monday night. In a bar with Christmas lights on the ceiling, a hundred yards from a City Hall not flying the Union Jack, most drinkers were glued to their smart phones. … Continue reading
Posted in London Review of Books, Northern Ireland
Tagged flags, loyalist, Naomi Long
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What Happened to Northern Ireland’s Shared Future?
In 2005, Northern Ireland’s joint Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister at Stormont published ‘A Shared Future’. The policy, an unashamedly irenic blueprint for a post-conflict society, included plans for addressing contentious issues such as flags and … Continue reading
Posted in Northern Ireland, Sunday Business Post
Tagged A Shared Future, Flegs, Jamie Bryson, loyalist, Ulster People's Forum
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Census Shows Changing NI
The proportion of Catholics in Northern Ireland has increased in the last decade, according to census figures released yesterday. The census shows that 48.36 per cent of the resident population are either Protestant or brought up Protestant, while over 45 … Continue reading
Posted in Northern Ireland, Scotsman
Tagged Catholic, census, identity, no religion, Protestant
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Pat Finucane Review ‘Shocking’
That security forces colluded with loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland during the Troubles has long been common knowledge, but David Cameron was right yesterday when he described the levels of state collusion uncovered by Sir Desmond de Silva QC as … Continue reading
Belfast Businesses Count Cost of Unrest
The weeks leading up to Christmas are normally a bumper time for the Mourne Seafood Bar in Belfast. One of the most popular restaurants in the city, empty tables at the Mourne are usually a collector’s item at weekends during … Continue reading
Posted in Northern Ireland, Sunday Business Post
Tagged Belfast, Business, flags, loyalist
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Ulster Covenant’s Scottish Resonances
THE prospect of independence in Scotland is a world apart from the quashed Irish bid for home rule in 1912, writes Peter Geoghegan. “THE DARK eleventh hour draws on and sees us sold to every evil power we fought against … Continue reading
Posted in Northern Ireland, Politics, Scotland, Scotsman
Tagged 1912, 2014, Carson, Independence, Referendum
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Dissident Republicans A Threat But Lack Capacity
Dissident republicans ‘intent to disrupt the peace process outstrips their capacity,’ a leading expert on paramilitaries in Northern Ireland has told the Sunday Business Post. Speaking in the wake of last week’s announcement that the Real IRA, Republican Action Against Drugs … Continue reading
Posted in Northern Ireland, Sunday Business Post
Tagged dissidents, IRA, Jon Tonge, Real IRA
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New IRA same old stance
A new republican anti-ceasefire group in Northern Ireland is a threat, but its goals are likely to be unfulfilled, writes Peter Geoghegan In DECEMBER 1969, the Irish Republican Army held an extraordinary convention at Knockvicar house in Boyle, County Roscommon. … Continue reading
Posted in Northern Ireland, Scotsman
Tagged Dissident, IRA, Jon Tonge, Real IRA, republicanism
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