Posted on behalf of Gerard McCann and Paul Hainsworth This blog builds upon a series of reports on the European Parliament elections in Northern Ireland by the authors. Previous reports are available free online in a virtual issue of Irish Political Studies on Local and European Parliament elections http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/pgas/fips_elections As expected with the European elections…

posted on behalf of DPER The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Mr Brendan Howlin T.D., will host the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Europe Regional Meeting in Dublin Castle on 8 & 9 May. The agenda comprises both working group and plenary sessions addressed by a range of invited experts from across Europe and will…

Posted on behalf of Dr Clodagh Harris (UCC) and Dr Gemma Carney (QUB) On Monday April 7th the PSAI specialist group on participatory and deliberative democracy in partnership with Campus Engage will be hosting a seminar on ‘Knowledge Democracy: the potential of participatory and deliberative democratic research in applied academy, community and policy contexts’. Professor…

On April 4th, the Department of Government at UCC will host a one day conference Sovereignty Regained: Has the bailout changed the Irish State? The conference brings together a group of Irish politics academics, columnists and political editors who will consider the post bailout political environment for voters, parties and public office holders. Paper givers…

Elaine Byrne, 25 March 2014 The traditional attitude to scandal in Ireland is to politicise and personalise. We move on once the head-on-the-plate has been delivered. Or we just move on without it. The third anniversary of the Moriarty Tribunal fell last weekend – but let’s not go there (the hot weather in exile is some compensation).  Let’s…

Posted on behalf of John Coakley This blog presents the arguments from a paper in the special issue of IPS ‘Breaking Patterns of Conflict in Northern Ireland’ . Available here  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07907184.2013.874999 The last years of the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first were marked by a steady but little noticed redefinition of the…

Posted on behalf of Paul Gillespie This blog presents the arguments from a paper in the special issue of IPS ‘Breaking Patterns of Conflict in Northern Ireland’, available here http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07907184.2013.875001 The transformation of British-Irish relations from dependence to interdependence from the 1960s to the 2000s occurred in an international setting dominated by both states’ membership of the…

Elaine Byrne 3 February 2014 The European Commission published its first Anti-Corruption report today. Information on the Eurobarometer polls and summaries of each country can be found here The Ireland chapter is here. The report makes a number of observations across different sectors of Irish public life. It has commended the government for the reforms it…