Tens of thousands of miles away from her home in Belfast, Lynda Sullivan tells The Detail of her work to help Peruvian villagers in their fight against multi-national gold mining which threatens the future of their community.
NIHE: Are We ‘Facing the Future’ or Reliving the Past?
Professor Phil Scraton is Professor of Criminology at Queen’s University in Belfast. He co-authored a report into women’s imprisonment within the male young offenders centre at Hydebank Wood in 2007. He is the primary author of the Hillsborough Independ
So - after two years of campaigning and $6 billion in campaign spending, the U.S. federal government remains essentially unchanged.
Quintin Oliver's defence of the Assembly is challenged by a member of the `post-conflict generation' who appreciates peace, but wants to see efficient government.
It seems fashionable to knock our politicians – our MLAs and MPs are lazy, incompetent, corrupt, petty-minded and self-serving...
Sir Robert Salisbury chaired Northern Ireland’s Literacy and Numeracy Taskforce. In an article written for The Detail, he gives his view on the attempt to improve reading standards and calls for urgent action.
The new beginning that never was: Where now for the NI Bill of rights?
Brendan McAllister: Towards a new kind of public discourse
Olwen Lyner, chief executive of the Northern Ireland Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (Niacro) gives her view on imprisonment for fine defaulting:
Mary O'Rawe compares the supergrass trials of the 1980s with today's legal framework
Catherine Couvert gives her view on the adoption debate
Eugene Grant QC has been a barrister in criminal practice in Northern Ireland for a number of years and is founder and secretary of the Criminal Bar Association (NI). He looks at the issue of independent advocacy in the criminal justice system.
After Saturdays Champions League final at Wembley were ticket touts were exceptionally active, Chris Moore recalls his own experience of ticket touts in Barcelona in 1999.
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