Central to the North West is its world-renowned scenery, and the community of artists who have drawn inspiration from it. Niall Coleman speaks to the award-winning Derry-born sculptor, Eilis O’Connell, about place, the past and creating art in the public realm. Tell us about your inspiration and first experiences as an artist. The need to...
The Department for Infrastructure’s Chief Planner and Director of Regional Planning, Angus Kerr, outlines the challenges and opportunities in an era of uncertainty, including the expansion of environmental compliance from central government to local government and beyond. Highlighting a number of challenges currently facing the Department, ranging from adaptation for an outcomes-based approach set out...
Professor of Green Political Economy at Queen’s University Belfast, John Barry, argues that the lack of specific climate change legislation for Northern Ireland is a serious impediment for the region’s transition to a climate resilient economy and low carbon society. Climate change, or rather climate breakdown as we now ought to term it, is rarely...
David Whelan meets with Labour MP and south Armagh native, Conor McGinn to discuss his early life, his allegiance to Northern Ireland and his ambitions for Brexit and beyond. The introduction of a Private Members Bill in the House of Commons in early 2018 to legislate for same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland by an MP...
Take on the Buy Social challenge in 2019 Employers For Childcare is made up of a campaigning charity and the only Social Enterprise Childcare Voucher company in the UK. 100 per cent...
In surviving the confidence vote, British Prime Minister Theresa May can claim pyrrhic victory over her party’s dissenters. However, she is now reliant on a helping hand from the EU if she...
The Head of Northern Ireland’s Civil Service David Sterling has described a “moral responsibility” on the Secretary of State Karen Bradley to take action on proposed new legislation to compensate victims and...
It is no understatement to say that the food and drink sector is one of the key pillars of the Northern Ireland economy and it is also an industry that has a...
The border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland has come to dominate the negotiations surrounding the UK’s exit from the European Union. The future of this border is important for...
Recent months have seen unprecedented levels of pressure upon Northern Ireland’s education system, with schools told in September to operate within a continuously shrinking budget. agendaNi assesses the latest funding crisis facing...
Following his initial foray into the Assembly, the UUP’s Steve Aiken MLA established himself as one of the party’s most capable performers and, in 2017, was returned with the largest vote share...
The Social Investment Fund (SIF) has had to extend its project deadline by five years and secure over £13 million of extra funding while its application process featured a number of “conflicts...
Philip Stephens, chief political commentator at The Financial Times, offers an analysis of Trump’s America, a fractured Europe and the changing dynamics of global power. “When you look around, there is chaos...
£320 million for the Northern Ireland block grant, £2 million for Belfast’s recovery from the Primark fire and £350 million for a City Deal were the headline figures. However they could not...
