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Local Government (Disqualification) Bill
Purpose: to end dual mandates between the Assembly and local councils. An Assembly private member’s Bill is entering its final…
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Elections: the rules for voting and standing
As elections approach, Peter Cheney checks out the lesser known rules for voting and standing. Canadians, Jamaicans, Rwandans and Germans…
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Anti-social networks
Tax is not ‘theft’ but serves a social purpose, John O’Farrell contends. The proportion of cuts to taxes by which…
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Research in the marketplace
Research Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn talks to Meadhbh Monahan about the need for more integration between researchers and business and the…
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Balancing a busy workload
agendaNi examines the problems involved in multiple committee membership. Sitting on more than one committee is “time consuming” and eats…
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Assembly round-up
Decision day approaches at Stormont as the Assembly starts to cut its own spending. Debates in November covered a potentially…
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Sean Neeson MLA
Following a 33-year political career, Alliance’s Sean Neeson has decided not to stand in the next Assembly elections. The East…
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Lisa Smyth
Lisa Smyth, the Belfast Telegraph’s Health Correspondent, has moved from reporting the courts to covering the wide range of topics…
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Time to speed up rail
Reg McCabe puts the case for a faster Belfast-Dublin railway, with two stops, and predicts that a continental-style rail link…
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A multi-layered Minister: Nelson McCausland interview
Culture, Arts and Leisure Minister Nelson McCausland tells Meadhbh Monahan how his personal beliefs affect his work and how he…
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