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Where are the dynamic people in the Irish Border region?

Webmaster — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:11:34 +0000

Four years ago I wrote a ‘Note from the Next Door Neighbours’ called ‘Can we become the best border region in Europe?’ in which I listed some of the distinguished people from the Irish border region over the past [...]

Why is Sinn Féin so uninterested in North-South cooperation?

Webmaster — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:27:54 +0000

If I am surprised at Irish university researchers’ lack of interest in North-South cooperation (see last month’s Note), I am utterly baffled by the lack of interest shown in this essential building block of the Belfast Agreement by the [...]

Why are Irish researchers so uninterested in North-South cooperation?

Webmaster — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:59:49 +0000

After more than 12 years of toiling in the field of North-South cooperation in Ireland, one of the real puzzles for me remains the lack of interest shown by our university academics and researchers in this important and innovative aspect of peacemaking and politics, economics and society on this island. [...]

Do we want Fracking in Fermanagh?

Webmaster — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 06:09:10 +0000

How many people know what ‘fracking’ is? I knew little about this controversial new mining practice until a green-minded friend from Leitrim contacted me about it last month. Fracking is short for drilling for natural gas by fracturing rocks [...]

Making the Island’s children our first priority

Webmaster — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:52:31 +0000

There is a wonderful statement in the 1919 Democratic Programme of the First Dail – which was eventually sidelined by Sinn Fein leaders as being too left-wing – that ‘it shall be the first duty of the Government of [...]