The Centre for Cross Border Studies

Welcome to BorderIreland/Discuss our new discussion forum.

We have organised the forum into several categories.

Briefings – Here we have used the information and knowledge gained in developing Border Ireland to provide analytical evidence for future North/South policy development.

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On 12-13 June 2008 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Dundalk in partnership with Co-operation Ireland we will be holding a conference called “Cross-Border Co-operation as part of the Irish Peace Process: Lessons for Europe”.

More details to follow soon…

Cross-border issues are prominent in the media with over 200 articles added to the media centre since the beginning of 2008.Check out the latest news stories here.

Remember these are available as a sector specific RSS newsfeed to add [...]

Following the seminar on the Border Ireland RSS Newsfeed in Monaghan in November 2007 a number of people have expressed an interest in getting it onto their website. 

If you have any questions add a comment here.

30 November 2007
Hilgrove Hotel, Monaghan
10.30am – Lunchtime

The Centre for Cross Border Studies would like to invite you to a seminar on the Border Ireland – Media Centre.

The Media Centre holds practical north/south news stories ‘clipped’ from newspapers and government press releases.

Continue reading Border Ireland Media Centre – Spreading the News

All-island issues have been prominent in the media during the past weeks. There have been calls for an all-island gas market, road strategy and phone tariff and investigations into improved transport links which would see Aer Lingus planes based [...]

Cross-border economic co-operation continues to be widely discussed with the Irish Taoiseach predicting a fast integration of the two economies on the island. See details…

EU encouraged to develop legislative and practical support for cooperation between health systems of EU countries.  See details…

Human rights are central to the Good Friday Agreement.  New research published by Border Action from the Irish Centre for Human Rights examines an economic, social and cultural rights-based approach to building peace.

For more information see Border Ireland.

As part of the financial package to push for a restored NI Assembly, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown has established a Commission to review the differentials in corporation tax rates between the North and the South. [...]