Gemma Hussey calls for a Single Issue Group for the promotion of women in Irish Politics

(uploaded by Fiona Buckley on behalf of the PSAI Gender Politics SG)  At a conference in UCC in September (Moving in from the Margins: Women’s Political Representation in Ireland) organised by the PSAI Gender Politics Specialist Group and UCC’s Women’s Studies Programme, former Minister Gemma Hussey called for the establishment of an organisation to promote…

Paradise Deferred: Party Politics, Constitutional change, and the long finger in Ireland

By Bill Kissane. There are  different ways of involving the public in higher law making. Constitutions can be drafted  by constituent assemblies or constitutional conventions directly elected  for that purpose. Constitutional change can result from extraordinary public debates  outside the  formal representative arena,  when  a majority of the people   back radical change. Alternatively, the people…