Public Affairs

Motions of confidence

The ability to pass a confidence motion or a supply (budget) bill is the minimum support required for a government…

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Single Use Plastics Directive

Single use plastic products are symptomatic of a wider economic model based upon consumer-fuelled resource exploitation. The Single Use Plastics…

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Eamonn McCann: Civil rights legacy marches on

In spite of a banning order, the first civil rights march in Derry took place on 5 October 1968, resulting…

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Marshalling against Brexit

In April this year, an Armagh dairy farmer became the first northern unionist to be elected to Seanad Éireann. Ciarán…

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British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference convenes after 11-year hiatus

The British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference (BIIGC) has convened for the first time in over a decade. Conceived as a major provision…

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The implications of Brexit for the North

The challenges of Brexit threaten to disrupt a whole suite of arrangements and presuppositions that have existed on the island…

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Unprecedented presidency

In spite of some resistance to a Presidential Election among the commentariat, the contest for Áras an Uachtaráin is on.…

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Media materialism

How might reality television influence your concerns for the less fortunate? Rodolfo Leyva from the Department of Media and Communications…

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Global Liveability: Dublin’s standing

Now in its 14th consecutive year, The Economist’s Global Liveability Index for 2018 has been published. eolas considers where Ireland…

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Fourth estate: Poachers turned game keepers

Ministerial ‘special advisers’, formerly referred to as ‘programme managers’, are generally utilised as administrative assistants to provide political coordination in…

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