Ten years on-the journey towards peace in Northern Ireland.
MANY readers will recall the momentous day just over ten years ago, in May 1998, when the political parties in Northern Ireland agreed to move forward and the Northern Ireland Assembly (Irish: Tionol Thuaisceart Eireann; Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlannn Semmile) was established. It was an occasion that...

Integrated schools in Northern Ireland: education for peace and reconciliation.
The core aim of integrated schools is to provide the child with a caring self-fulfilling educational experience which will enable him/her to become a fulfilled and caring adult. (Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education, 2005, p. 15) The harmonious, peaceful environments that characterize integrated schools in Northern...

Transforming the peace process in Northern Ireland; from terrorism to democratic politics.
9780716529552 Transforming the peace process in Northern Ireland; from terrorism to democratic politics. Ed. by Aaron Edwards and Stephen Bloomer. Irish Academic Press 2008 252 pages $79.95 Hardcover DA990 Contributors from...

Young people in post-conflict Northern Ireland; the past cannot be changed, but the future can be developed.
9781905541348 Young people in post-conflict Northern Ireland; the past cannot be changed, but the future can be developed. Ed. by Dirk Schubotz and Paula Devine. Russell House Publishing 2008 129 pages $29.95 Paperback ...

800m [pounds sterling] Northern Ireland framework hangs in the balance.
The long established principle that public authorities must ensure transparency when awarding a public contract including by stating the evaluation criteria to bidders before their bids are prepared, has been hammered home recently by the High Court of Northern Ireland. In McLaughlin & Harvey v Department of Finance and...

Innovations in school nursing: Northern Ireland school nursing conference.
The 9th Unite/CPHVA Northern Ireland (NI) School Nursing Conference was held in Belfast last month, themed 'Children and young people: a public health challenge?' It included government updates and fascinating input from practitioners on many innovative approaches across NI. In her final policy update before leaving post,...

Strangford Lough: the largest inlet in the British Isles, Strangford Lough is a magnet for all sorts of wildlife, from brent geese to basking sharks. Now, the fast-flowing narrows of the lough, on the east coast of County Down in Northern Ireland, are providing a testing ground for pioneering renewable energy technology.
'WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, I WAS KILLING AS MANY WILDFOWL as I could: Brent geese, wigeon, mallard, greylag, pigeons, anything I could get my hands on,' says 86-year-old Willie McEvoy in his thick Ulster-Scots accent. We're standing outside the house where he was born ('where my father...

Explaining new forms of evangelical activism in Northern Ireland: comparative perspectives from the USA and Canada.
In May 2007, the Rev. Ian Paisley became the First Minister of Northern Ireland, taking his position alongside Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness of Sinn Fein, who has admitted being a former member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). This could be seen as a watershed in Northern Irish...

Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture, and Politics.
Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture, and Politics by John Hill. London, BFi Publishing (Distributed in the U.S. by the University of California Press), 2006. 262 pp., illus. Hardcover: $80.00 and Paperback: $27.95. In recent months the apparently intractable and interminable conflict in Northern Ireland seems to...

Why Northern Ireland women need access to abortion: the abortion debate rages on, but there is an urgent need to clarify the law.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ON A TUESDAY EVENING IN JULY, Gordon Brown summoned a Labour Member of Parliament to issue a warning that any move to extend the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland would put the Northern Irish administration at risk. The MP had been among...