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Monthly Archives: March 2017

UCD Garret FitzGerald School and Lecture

The annual UCD Garret FitzGerald School and Lecture will take place on Thursday, 30 March 2017 in the UCD Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4.

March 24, 2017 in Events.

Scottish Independence and a United Ireland: A Brexit game of Gaelic Games?

Guest post by Dr Anthony Costello, lecturer in EU policy-making, Comparative European Government and Politics, Conflict and Conflict Resolution, and Irish and Northern Irish Politics at the Department of Government, University College Cork.

March 21, 2017 in Electoral Reform, Northern Ireland, Uncategorized.

Pork and Committee Selection in Ireland: Irish Politicians (and Their Constituents) Love Bacon, Too!

Guest post by Chris Raymond, Lecturer in Politics at the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, Queens’ University Belfast; and Jacob Holt, Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Columbus State University.

March 7, 2017 in Committee System, New party politics, Northern Ireland.

Vote 2017: Northern Ireland election – Do transfers matter?

Yesterday, Northern Ireland’s voters went to the polls to elect a new assembly. Counting is now underway in early elections that were sparked by a row between Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) over the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme.  The scandal, however, revealed much wider differences between the partners in the North’s compulsory…

March 3, 2017 in Election, Northern Ireland.

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