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Published in: Home: OpinionPaying for GP appointments won’t save the NHS. Just look at IrelandOPINION: The two-tier system praised by the British right is a crumbling deathtrap with long waits and bed shortages
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Published in: 50.50: AnalysisCan the UK survive Westminster’s attack on trans rights in Scotland?LGBTIQ activists across the UK are rethinking their place in the union after Sunak blocked new Scottish legislation
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Published in: Home: OpinionHow a farcical new report on Northern Ireland Protocol poses a real threatOPINION: It’s worrying that a paper undermining the Good Friday Agreement has been welcomed by influential politicians
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Published in: Home: OpinionIt’s not the break-up of Britain… yetElection results show that the ground is shifting in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. But the future of the UK...
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Published in: Home: AnalysisSinn Féin could win the Northern Irish election. Here’s what that meansAs a younger generation leaves the old sectarian divisions behind, new political alliances are forming
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionAshling Murphy’s murder must bring change to IrelandIreland has embraced social change in marriage equality and abortion rights. Now it’s time to end this culture of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: AnalysisWhy Ireland needs to look beyond a binary referendum on unificationAs the short, disastrous history of majority voting shows, we can and should find more nuanced options for decision-making
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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: Podcasts: InterviewPeter 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...
