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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Knowing your placeThinking of some lines of poetry by Derek Mahon.
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Published in: HomePeter Geoghegan on dark money and returning home to IrelandopenDemocracy's investigations editor talks about how Ireland has changed since he left as a young man, and why we...
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Published in: Home: OpinionIreland’s Greens have betrayed their voters and the planetIn February, Ireland voted Left. So why have the Greens put the establishment back in power?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Ireland’s caretaker government, and the shattering of a century-old duopolyThis recent period represents a seismic shift in Irish politics, with the previously unthinkable coming-together of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Parties with a history of secessionist violence: what does their electoral success mean for peace and democracy?The acceptance of Sinn Fein and HDP as legitimate actors by the wider community is an important opportunity, but one...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Irish election and the possibility of a left populismMore and more voters are no longer willing to accept a political status quo that makes doing “everything else”...
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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...
