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Obituary: Paul Goggins MP
Obituary: Paul Goggins MP 6 June 1953 –7 January 2014 NIO Minister 2006 –2010 “He was Labour to the core…
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From 30 to 20 years
Archives will now be releasing much more information but officials and historians have claimed that more openness does not necessarily…
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The MP notes
NIO staff provided frank assessments of seven of the province’s newly elected parliamentarians in 1983 and made some forecasts for…
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Thinking outside the box
A 1983 working document for the New Ireland Forum called for a more positive vision from unionism but also questioned…
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Dealing with Homelessness
Charities and officials disagreed over how to tackle homelessness in 1984 with the voluntary sector being accused of self-interest. Many…
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Stormont’s potential praised
In an assessment of the 1982-1986 Assembly, the DUP appeared to dismiss Northern Ireland’s influence at Westminster and point to…
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Lignite developers ‘misled’ NIE
Misleading prices and a poor grasp of technology undermined the case for a lignite gasification plant in the early 1980s.…
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Irish schools programmes proposed
A 1979 paper shows that Irish was strongly taught in Catholic post-primaries but the BBC was reluctant to roll out…
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Analysing Maskey’s win
Sinn Féin’s Alex Maskey became the party’s first councillor in Belfast since the 1920s when he won a by-election in…
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Defining CSR
A Whitehall paper on corporate social responsibility sums up current thinking among the business community. SMEs need to be confident…
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