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Northern Ireland's fees set to hit £5,750 »

Employment and learning minister Danny Kennedy (right)

University tuition fees in Northern Ireland are set to rise to £5,750 following a government U-turn. As previously reported by The Journal, employment and learning minister Danny Kennedy suggested last month that Northern Ireland could not affor...

Wed 23 Feb 2011 by Jessica Abrahams | Read more »

Tuition fees in Northern Ireland set to rise »

Northern Ireland will increase tuition fees at its universities, while Welsh students will avoid paying more for university education.  The Welsh Assembly announced last month that they would not be falling in line with Westminster’s propos...

Sat 05 Feb 2011 by Jessica Abrahams | Read more »

Ryanair axes flights to Belfast City »

Ryanair

Ryanair has announced that it will be pulling out of Belfast City Airport from October 31 of this year, a move that is likely to affect Irish students in Scotland. The airline has blamed its decision on the government halting expansion plans at the ca...

Tue 14 Sep 2010 by Jessica Abrahams | Read more »

Northern Ireland does a deal—on new deadlines »

Northern Ireland police

At the end of last week, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) finally decided to accept the terms of the agreement reached at Hillsborough Castle over ten days of negotiations with Sinn Fein and other parties. So does that put devolved power-sharing g...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Alan Trench | Read more »

Edinburgh historian lists names of Irish war dead »

Edinburgh historian lists names of Irish war dead

An Edinburgh historian has put together the first roll of honour to list all those from Ireland who died during the Second World War. The list, which was compiled by Yvonne McEwen of the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for the Study of the Two ...

Wed 25 Nov 2009 by Ishbel Eunson | Read more »

Northern Ireland unites against dissident threat »

Coffins

The killings in Northern Ireland perpetrated earlier this month by dissident groups—the Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA) and the Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA)—with the goal to undermining the peace process, has had the opposite e...

Sat 21 Mar 2009 by Sarah Clark | Read more »

Politics, peace and pounds in Northern Ireland »

Northern Ireland

Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, the changes in Northern Ireland have been nothing short of profound. In almost eleven years of post-Agreement politics, the province has wrestled itself from the grip of a protracted, internal arm...

Mon 09 Mar 2009 by John Topping | Read more »

NI environment minister denies climate change »

In a controversial move, an official ad campaign on climate change has been banned in Northern Ireland. The controversial decision to block the TV and radio advert was taken by Stormont’s environment minister Sammy Wilson, who does not believe h...

Sat 07 Mar 2009 by Nina Conlon | Read more »

46% of Ulster students blame women for rape »

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A new poll has found that nearly half of Northern Ireland’s students believe that a woman is wholly or partially responsible for rape if she flirts.The Amnesty International commissioned poll, published on 29 September, entitled Violence Against ...

Mon 13 Oct 2008 by Sarah Clark | Read more »

The Belfast Agreement - Ten Years On »

Owen Paterson MP

TEN YEARS AGO this month, the world watched one of the most crucial developments in Northern Ireland’s long peace process. The Belfast Agreement was a turning point, and we should not forget today the hideously difficult decisions taken by a numb...

Thu 24 Apr 2008 by Owen Paterson | Read more »

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