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New York’s Times Square feels like the centre of the world. The relentless rush and roar of traffic. The press of the crowd. The flickering lights and ever c...

The Good Friday Agreement (GFA) has undoubtedly been the cornerstone of the North’s peace and stability and as we approach its 20th Anniversary its absence i...

Twenty years on from the Good Friday Agreement, you could be forgiven for thinking our politics has fallen back to pre-1998 standards, with political parties...

The lead up to the 20th anniversary of the Belfast Agreement has so far been filled with the predictable backslapping and delirious nostalgia that has allowe...

Twenty years ago there when Facebook wasn’t a thing and tweeting referred to the birdsong that greeted the dawn, on that day that I went out to cast my vote ...

I am 18, I have never experienced the tragic war that was brought to Ireland. I have never been subjected to war because of the great people who came before ...

My Granda took me with him when he went to vote in the referendum on the Good Friday Agreement. Our local polling station is in Saintfield Academy and I reme...

Though from a traditional Hymn originating from the Mid-West that would scare the devil out of you, the lyrics of this famous song, covered by greats such as...

“I detect an accent…where are you from?” Since starting university in Washington DC last September, this has been the question I have received most frequentl...

If you have seen the beautifully nostalgic ‘Derry Girls’ then you have a fair idea of what my life was like in April 1998. I was 16 and although I knew who a...

As we rapidly approach the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA), I think its important to consider what the most optimistic in 1998 must have ...

Truly, 2018 is a year crammed with important anniversaries and commemorations for Northern Ireland. These anniversaries are more than just an opportunity to ...

Who would have thought that, I, a nineteen-year-old Northern Irish female, could be criminalised for wanting control over my own body? Who would have through...

You’re in Great Britain and you mention Northern Ireland to someone. What do they think of? More optimistically, they might think of Game of Thrones or maybe...

Firstly, I cannot write about marriage equality. I can only write about why we need it. Really you don’t need to read any further: we don’t have equality and...

We’ve had so many agreements over the last two decades that an outsider could be forgiven for thinking Northern Ireland politics are actually rather amicable...

When I was a child, my parents wouldn’t let me play outside with toy guns for the fear that I might be shot. I didn’t understand their concerns back then. Ne...

In anticipation of the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, the individuals and groups who were imperative to its development are su...

We’re living through years of highly significant anniversaries in Northern Ireland at the moment. The 50th anniversary of foundation of the Civil Rights move...

I first learned about the Good Friday Agreement when I was nine years old, during morning assembly at my school. In April 1998, I was attending one of the few...