2017 must be a year of social movements in Northern Ireland
Rally for Choice in central Belfast. Credit: Ashley Jones In many ways, 2016's tumultuous global politics felt like an extension of Northern Ireland's status quo; in a region where…
10,000 March for Free Education in Dublin
Photo: Union of Students in Ireland This week, between eight and twelve thousand students, teachers and union members marched through Dublin in opposition to proposed plans to raise university tuition…
Post-Brexit, Northern Ireland is being hung out to dry over the border
Stormont- the seat of Northern Irish government The Westminster inquiry into the future of the Irish border announced last week is useless if we still don’t know what kind…
Northern Ireland and Scotland may leave the UK as PM resigns
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon with the Scottish Cabinet. Image: Scottish Government Across the UK 52% of voters chose to leave the EU in yesterday's poll. But the result is triggering…
Factchecking the EU debate
After months of deliberation and consideration the public of the United Kingdom will take to the polls for a referendum on whether the UK should remain a Member State of…
Northern Ireland’s stake in the EU debate
The Northern Ireland media has been busy over the past couple of weeks speculating as to the composition of our new Executive. Now that is settled, for a while at…
Post-election round-up: 6 things we learnt from 5 May’s elections
Photo: Wikimedia Commons Now that the dust has settled from the various elections across the UK on the 5th May, Joe Lo looks at 6 key things to take away…
Winds of change in Northern Ireland as Greens and People Before Profit win seats
Clare Bailey, Green Party in Northern Ireland deputy leader, upon winning her seat in South Belfast. Photo: Green Party in Northern Ireland It’s a good day to be a leftie…
Vote 2016 Live
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Outdated, absurd and degrading: time to change Northern Ireland’s abortion laws
By Ardfern (Own work) , via Wikimedia is taken for granted that we all can control what happens to our body. Women in Northern Ireland however do not have control…