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Shock of #Covid19 is an opportunity to change NI for the better

Mick Fealty on April 17, 2020, 1:37 pm

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“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” Viktor E. Frankl For all the catastrophising of this event, Northern Ireland seems to be holding up fine. That’s in large part because of the people of Northern Ireland (and I mean all, not some) have changed their habits and bought our health system precious time. Belfast’s hospitals have themselves turned on a sixpence and remain still well under capacity as far as Covid19 …

“No Change” is not an option…

Hugo on April 14, 2020, 7:01 am

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Brexit, changing demographics, the rise of Sinn Fein, and even Coronavirus have all given significant impetus into the argument for a United Ireland. However, the majority of people who live in Northern Ireland want to maintain the status quo, and even on current trends that is unlikely to change anytime soon. But what does “no change” actually mean? The border debate tends to focus on what a United Ireland would look like, which obscures the debate of where we are …

Soapbox: Co-destruction of health services is rock bottom for our democracy

Soapbox on August 30, 2017, 5:22 pm

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SOAPBOX: Mic Moore is a policy worker in the voluntary sector and vice chair of NIGAG. He argues that every political party needs to urgently decide if it’s in or out of power-sharing, so that the needs of vulnerable people don’t get sucked into the vacuum.

Slugger’s ‘play the ball’ rule and the [ever urgent] quest to bridge diverging communities

Mick Fealty on February 2, 2015, 2:11 pm

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So as David has noted, we got a nice mention from Noel Whelan, a long term reader of Slugger, in his OpEd in the Irish Times. He’d been ruminating on an unsettling trend in southern politics for direct protest, and in the case of Fine Gael Michelle Mulherin in Sligo something a great deal more Northern Irish in flavour. That, much more than the vocal protests against the President, is particularly worrying aspect of a more general trend towards vocal …

Evangelical Journeys – choice and change in a Northern Ireland religious subculture

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on August 21, 2011, 9:16 am

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Cover of Evangelical Journeys - by Claire Mitchell and Gladys Ganiel

Over the last decade, Claire Mitchell and Gladys Ganiel (no stranger to this parish) have interviewed ninety five self-declared evangelicals in Northern Ireland to build up a picture of their dominant spiritual journeys and the individual choices that have determined the routes they have followed. The analysis of these interviews has recently been published by UCD Press in a fascinating book Evangelical Journeys. The authors spoke about their book in an In Conversation event at Contemporary Christianity in Belfast back …