Paul Stapleton, Managing Director of NIE Networks talks to Owen McQuade about the challenges in running an electricity network business and how the grid is facilitating the transition to a low carbon energy future. NIE Networks operate the electricity distribution network in Northern Ireland. It is an extensive network of 47,000 km with around 300...
Head of Energy Strategy Division in the Department for the Economy, Joe Reynolds, discusses the challenges facing the development of a future energy strategy for Northern Ireland and the trends affecting its perceived outcomes. Contextualising energy policy in Northern Ireland as being currently caught between the 2010 Strategic Energy Framework and the development of a...
Katy Hayward of Queen’s University Belfast offers her reflections on Brexit, borders and their potential impacts on criminal justice co-operation in Ireland. Opening her presentation, Hayward suggests that many questions remain unresolved in relation to the impact of Brexit on security and criminal justice cooperation in Ireland. Indeed, throughout her analysis she notes that the...
Paul Wickens, Chief Executive of Enterprise Shared Services (ESS) for the Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS), discusses the journey of digital government in Northern Ireland to date and offers some insight on the future roadmap of three new key strategies. Paul Wickens outlines that a lot has changed since the original concept of nidirect and...
As esteemed winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, the T.S. Elliot Prize and the Stonewall Book Award, Tennessee-born Mark Doty now comes to Belfast as the first recipient of the...
Fianna Fáil and the SDLP are currently engaged in intensive political talks about closer cooperation and a possible merger. Two months ago, they were dismayed that the substance of their private talks...
The Shared Education experience in Northern Ireland and the resulting culture of collaboration have transferrable lessons for other deeply divided societies. Professor of Education and Faculty Dean of Research at Queen’s University...
The teaching of history and meeting its associated objectives in a deeply divided society is a complex endeavour. Ciarán Galway visits the DCU Institute of Education at St Patrick’s Campus, Drumcondra to...
As Northern Ireland’s public sector struggles to function in the absence of a Stormont Executive, education has emerged as one of the most burdened victims of cutbacks entailed in the Northern Ireland...
Paul Burns, Head of ICT at the Courts Service of Ireland reflects on the small, yet significant measures spearheading digital transformation in criminal justice. “The taking of photographs in Irish court proceedings...
Former UUP MLA Reverend Robert Coulter was a stalwart for Ulster Unionism in North Antrim. However his first loves were for road racing and then the pulpit; not to the political chamber....
ICTU’s John O’Farrell outlines the necessity for policy makers to appreciate the economic and societal impact of supporting working parents with affordable childcare. Last month, the Toddle In 2 childcare facility, based...
The Stormont House Agreement proposed several core legacy mechanisms, including an Oral History Archive. As the consultation phase continues, agendaNi reviews the reaction of the academic-led Model Bill Team to the proposals....
The Northern Ireland Office (NIO) has published a consultation paper which explores means by which Northern Ireland can address the legacy of its divided past. agendaNi assesses and evaluates the contents of...
