Promoting understanding & co-operation between all the people of Ireland, North and South. Founded 1938. President: Dr Evelyn Collins
Dublin/Belfast
Joined February 2015
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We await the judgement of the Court of Appeal, but that should not stop us trying to seek a mutually beneficial outcome. My door remains open and I will be talking to others to try and see the situation resolved for the good of all communities in Northern Ireland. 2/2
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I’ve had a constructive meeting in Belfast tonight with @HMcEntee as efforts continue to find an agreed way forward on Drumcree. Once again I am grateful to everyone who has offered their help and engaged in frank and open dialogue. 1/2
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Irish Sunday newspaper #frontpages - Oct 4th
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Bertie Ahern in talks to take up mediator role in Drumcree stand-off; overnight talks end without agreement independent.ie/irish-news/po…
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It easy to miss other, important news at the moment.
There’s no agreed budget and a diminishing workforce, so harder and harder to reverse this…
Almost 72% of cancer patients not getting treatment by two months after urgent GP referral trib.al/CdXHiJd
The CTA has facilitated all sorts of personal & professional E/W or Strand 3 relationships & needs to protected. An unacknowledged success area in wider B/I relations?
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Northern Ireland does not have above-average student ‘brain drain’ to Britain, study finds irishtimes.com/politics/2026…
Colin Graham @19acres normally presents the My Identity podcast for @ArinsProject and has done so much to facilitate greater North / South understanding. Tonight he launched his memoir of an 1980s East Belfast childhood and his long journey to @MaynoothUni School of English.
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Irish Sunday newspaper #frontpages for Sept 20th [Updated]
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Once again the broader context of shared EU membership as a way of equalising & improving UK/Ireland relations seems something taken for granted by too many in the pre - Brexit years.
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…
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PEACEPLUS CORE project launched to strengthen cross-border environmental cooperation: tinyurl.com/mmmy8muw @IrishEnvNet @SEUPB
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Realised when walking around the Fleadh: Belfast has a median age of 36, which means that the majority of the population has no memory of what Belfast was like before the 1994 ceasefires.
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My reflections on the first panel of day 2 at the British-Irish Association conference in Oxford, of which the topic was 'Englishness and Irishness today'
Had to cut the last 30 seconds or so because Elon wanted me to pay for the privilege of uploading a 20 min video
“we need to make that [institutional] reform a genuine reality. It’s one of the things I want to address with all the parties as a matter of urgency”.
The Secretary of State's speech to the British Irish Association Conference @RhonddaBryant gov.uk/government/news/the-s…
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Great session this evening at the BIA Conference in Oxford, with two really thought-provoking speeches by Minister @HMcEntee & Secretary of State for Northern Ireland @RhonddaBryant and a great Q & A session
This evening I addressed the British Irish Association on how global affairs are reshaping relations across these islands and in Northern Ireland.
Read my full remarks here: gov.ie/en/department-of-fore…
This is an NI Secretary of State with the right priorities. Does he also play @nytwordle we wonder?
Ok @thetimes why isn’t Lent, as in the penitential period before Easter, allowed in your Polygon puzzle today?
