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The Northern Ireland Secretary of State league
As part of today’s cabinet reshuffle, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson has dismissed Julian Smith from his post as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland after 204 days in the role. Julian Smith has...
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The cost of living either side of the border
The issue of the cost of living either side of the Irish border received renewed interest today, following Senator Ian Marshall’s comments on the Sunday Politics that a single person in Northern...
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The mystery of the ‘shy nationalists’ – online and face-to-face polling on...
The results of an opinion poll organized by Liverpool University and Britain’s Economic and Social Research have been published this week. The poll, carried out by Social Market Research, showed 29% of...
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High speed rail to the northwest would help alleviate Dublin’s housing crisis...
Among the problems facing Ireland in 2020, two of the most pressing are the housing crisis in Dublin and severe regional economic inequality. Far removed from Dublin or any of the prosperous regional...
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Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales rank amongst the lowest countries in the...
The response to the Covid-19 coronavirus has raised questions regarding the capability of health systems to deal with an influx of patients requiring intensive care. It is estimated that one in seven...
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Ahead of the Stormont budget, should the Executive be rethinking its priorities?
With the first budget of the newly reconstituted Northern Ireland Executive expected shortly, there will be an opportunity to consider whether public resources are being directed appropriately to deal...
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Mobility data suggests that Northern Ireland is traveling more than any other...
Data provided by Apple on levels of mobility by Apple Maps users suggests that Northern Ireland has seen less of a drop in motor traffic levels than any other area in the United Kingdom or Ireland. The...
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If the UK doesn’t change its disastrous contact tracing app strategy,...
As trials of the British government’s coronavirus contact tracing app begin this week on the Isle of Wight, serious questions have been raised about the design of the application and its potential...
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Establishment of biosecurity zones could allow different regions of Ireland...
The Northern Ireland Executive announced their roadmap to relaxing coronavirus restrictions today, following similar publications for England and the Republic of Ireland. Unlike the Irish government’s...
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The coronavirus remote working boom has made many modern offices obsolete and...
The announcement this week by Facebook that they would begin to allow most employees to work remotely was among many this week from technology companies announcing similar moves towards remote working....
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The United Kingdom now tops the global table for weekly COVID-19 deaths per...
With the Dominic Cummings saga dominating the front pages of British newspapers, data from Our World In Data indicates that the UK has overtaken Sweden and Belgium to become the country with the most...
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Sewage monitoring could be one of the most effective weapons in the battle...
A recent paper from Yale University has raised hopes that monitoring of sewage could provide a key early warning indicator of a community outbreak of the coronavirus. Researchers compared the amount of...
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The COVID-19 R number in Northern Ireland has drifted back up towards 1 since...
The COVID-19 basic reproduction number, or R, has become the most crucial metric for policymakers as they start to tentatively reopen the economy following the lockdown measures that were implemented...
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With the R number across the UK and Ireland less than one, what lessons can...
The Northern Ireland Executive announced that there will be further loosening of lockdown restrictions next week, following the Department of Health announcing that the R number (the average number of...
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Northern Ireland is about to learn the cost of lies
“What is the cost of lies?” This is the question posed by Valery Legasov in the HBO mini-series Chernobyl, about the lies of the Soviet authorities in the lead up and aftermath of the 1986 disaster in...
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Mask wearing rates in the UK are among the lowest in the world – it’s time...
As social distancing measures are relaxed in Northern Ireland and elsewhere, it is vital that everything possible is done to attempt to prevent a secondary wave of Covid-19 infections. Of the actions...
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Northern Ireland records its first day with zero new COVID-19 cases since the...
The Department of Health COVID-19 dashboard has reported that today, the 20th of June, is the first day since the 10th of March with zero new COVID-19 cases. Over the last 7 days, 25 individuals tested...
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Northern Ireland is lagging far behind Great Britain on the wearing of face...
Over the last four months, the percentage of the population in Great Britain wearing face masks in public has steadily increased. However, data from YouGov suggests that the percentage of the...
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Northern Ireland currently has one of the world’s highest COVID-19...
Northern Ireland continues to rank among the world’s highest for the number of COVID-19 vaccinations administered per capita. The chart above, from Our World in Data, shows that if Northern Ireland...
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The twin surges of the Alliance Party and the TUV threaten to redraw Northern...
Today’s LucidTalk poll for the Belfast Telegraph shows the Alliance Party and the TUV are continuing to gain support with the Northern Ireland electorate, with the DUP suffering a significant decline...
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