Seán Mac Cárthaigh was one of a number of people who wrote a paper on cultural accommodation presented at Féile an Phobail Belfast in August. Below he outlines the rationale of the paper and reactions to it. The full text can be found under the resources tab of irishborderpoll.com Cultural accommodation of others can in […]

Journalist Sam McBride penned an article in which he stated that the north of Ireland is just over a month away from a ‘blackout crisis’. The Kilroot power station just outside Belfast is scheduled to move from coal to gas powered turbines. Ageing and inefficient, and no longer fit-for-purpose, it is euphemistically apt. The allegory […]