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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Irish border contradictions and chaos: how will Brexit affect Northern Ireland?Such an intractable situation suggests that since Brexit’s genesis, the UK’s only land frontier with the EU has been...
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Published in: HomeBrexit’s primitive passions could bring havoc to Ireland – and far beyondThe Good Friday Agreement was a marvel that is now threatened by the ignorant and the nasty among Britain’s ruling elite.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Common Travel Area (CTA): complacent talk about migrationWhether the UK leaves the EU or not, and no matter under what terms, the fight to uphold higher standards in public...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Climate change will kill my generation, unless we step up nowIreland has the necessary means to invest in cleaner energy and should be flying way beyond our self-set climate...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBrexiteers, backstops, and the bloody Irish borderHow casually the Brexiteers dismiss the issues around the Irish border and the peace process. But for many, they can...
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Published in: 50.50The Backlash podcast episode 5: targeted hateSocial media propaganda. Data-mining. Foreign interference in Ireland's abortion referendum. The backlash against...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKListen England, it is Ireland talkingBrexit is fuelled by an English nationalism as crude and self-deluded as Irish nationalism used to be. The best...
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Published in: 50.50'A historic victory for women's rights': how the world responded to Ireland's abortion referendumMedia from the UK to Argentina react to the results of Friday’s vote, laying the path to legislation for safe...
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Published in: 50.50MPs criticise Facebook’s “not fit for purpose” foreign ad ban as Ireland votes on abortionBritish and Irish parliamentarians call for major changes to unregulated social media campaigning following...
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Published in: 50.50Six ways Ireland’s abortion referendum could be hacked this weekAnti-abortion money, Facebook ads and boots-on-the-ground volunteers have piled in from across the world to try and...
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Published in: 50.50How Irish anti-abortion activists are drawing on Brexit and Trump campaigns to influence referendumBacklash against Irish abortion rights enlists some of the same technologies, companies, and individuals involved in...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHonourable deceptions in the choreography of the Northern Ireland Peace ProcessIn some situations, the end does justify the means. In these anti-political times isn't it useful to remember the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Tapping the will of the people – a route to radically better democracy?Ireland's innovative Citizen Assembly is changing the way the country debates sensitive issues like abortion. What...
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Published in: 50.50On the warpath: the young women leading Ireland’s campaign against abortionNext year Ireland will hold a referendum on its controversial eighth amendment. Articulate, millennial “pro-life...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Ireland, Brexit and our Disunited KingdomWill Brexit ultimately result in a united federal Ireland in a confederation with Scotland, in the EU – with England...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Dublin’s housing: a cultural revolutionHome Sweet Home is a radical and highly creative campaign to force political action on Dublin homelessness; a...
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Published in: 50.50Repeal the Eighth: putting intersectionality into practiceA long-established conservative media frames the terms of abortion politics in Ireland. The pro-choice activism...
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Published in: HomeThe problem with politicians and democracy…"Opening up new forms of political participation to hear the voices of the politically marginalised is critical for...
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Published in: TransformationSet in stone? The architecture of colonialismCan the physical reminders of British occupation ever be seen as home?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?We need bolder politicians“We have seen a lengthy period during which politicians have deliberately disengaged from important aspects of what...
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