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Children and young people
Summer food scheme given funding
The Northern Ireland Executive has agreed to extend the free school meals scheme over the school summer holidays at a…
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Children and young people
Action for Children: 20 years of support
Action for Children celebrates 20 years in Northern Ireland this month. Recently appointed National Director NI, Lorna Ballard, outlines the…
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Children and young people
Towards a Childcare Strategy
Education Minister Peter Weir has published a Childcare Sector Recovery Plan in a bid to restore the sector to pre-Covid-19…
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Children and young people
Delivering an e-safety strategy
An e-Safety Strategy for Northern Ireland aimed at keeping children and young people safe online has yet to be signed…
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Children and young people
Children in need
Over 5 per cent of children in Northern Ireland are known to social services as a ‘child in need’ and…
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Public Affairs
Jerome Quinn: Guardian of grassroots Gaelic games coverage
Once the voice and indeed the face of GAA coverage in the North, Jerome Quinn’s acrimonious split with his BBC…
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Public Affairs
A meeting of minds
In 1972 a fresh-faced film producer travelled from England, camera in tow, to meet the then youngest MP, determined to…
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Public Affairs
The all-Ireland Green Party
One of the major talking points regarding the Programme for Government negotiations in the Republic of Ireland was the vote…
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Public Affairs
Bill explainer: Functioning of Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill
As a Private Member’s Bill, the Functioning of Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill is one of just two bills since the…
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Public Affairs
Disremembering: Remembering to forget
The contribution of revolutionary Ulster Presbyterians to the Society of United Irishmen and subsequent 1798 Rebellion is an important and…
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