Analysis
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Mental health strategy implementation ‘deeply disappointing’
Despite a 10-year blueprint for mental health service improvement, “derisory” funding means that it will be impossible for this strategy…
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A draft Programme for Government
As the Northern Ireland Executive looks set to publish a Programme for Government (PfG) for the first time in 13…
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Targets in law for nature’s restoration
Faced with a once in a generation opportunity to forge a more sustainable path for the environment, targets in law…
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Press freedom under threat in Northern Ireland
Questions need to be answered around police misuse of secret surveillance powers and the practices need to be brought to…
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The fiscal position in the early years of a united Ireland
While the northern economy is weak relative to the Republic, the cost of unity will be contingent on the speed…
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Sustaining Lough Neagh
In 2023, I said Lough Neagh was dying in plain sight. One year on, it grieves me to say that…
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The productivity problem
With annual growth of some 1.1 per cent now putting Northern Ireland’s economy 7.6 per cent above pandemic level, signs…
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Energy security in an all-island context
Refreshing the All-Island Grid Study could be a key enabler of a net zero electricity system by 2035, suggests MaREI…
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Complex planning for border poll must ‘begin immediately’
Only border poll planning can clarify the likely costs and benefits of Irish reunification write Séamus McGuinness, research professor and…
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Unravelling the puzzle: Tackling Northern Ireland’s talent dilemma
While it is important that policy adequately plans for jobs in the future, it is equally as important to plan…
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