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Gerard Deane and Paul Gosling host a series of interviews with the objective of promoting a wider, more inclusive and engaged conversation about how we make progress and further solidify pea...
The latest series of Holywell Conversations podcasts began with reflections on the Good Friday Agreement, amidst fears that Northern Ireland...
Derry has been campaigning for a full sized university campus for the last 60 years. The city still holds a grievance over the Lockwood repo...
The Legacy Act is Here The widely opposed Legacy Bill is now enacted as the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act, 2023....
Women in Northern Ireland are twice as likely to be murdered as a result of domestic violence than in the other UK nations. In some years, a...
There is immense frustration across Northern Ireland’s community sector that the Civic Forum collapsed in 2002 and was not replaced. Demands...
Agriculture is worth around £1.7bn to the Northern Ireland economy, 4% of total economic activity, according to figures published by the Dep...
When waiting lists are discussed and shouted about in Northern Ireland, we are usually talking about our disintegrating healthcare system. B...
Derry is a frustrated city. Too often promises of improvement either come to nothing, or happen too slowly. Anyone who doubts this can consi...
Last week was Good Relations Week, the annual Community Relations Council event that aims to build relationships between people of different...
Why do we still have ‘peace walls’? Why, a quarter of a century after the Good Friday Agreement, do we still have peace walls? The truth, of...
Derry and Donegal are not only marginalised by their geographic position on the periphery of the island of Ireland, but they are also very b...
Only the most devoted conspiracy theorist could deny climate change given the devastating events of recent weeks. Spring was marked by deadl...
Recent weeks have seen a rise in concern about the continuing presence of paramilitaries in our society. Just how we make faster progress in...
A few days ago the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee of the House of Commons was told that for some communities here, the expected peace di...
Just five miles from Derry’s city centre, on the suburban edge of the Waterside, is the site of one of the worst environmental crimes in UK...
Human rights are under threat in the UK, warns the Northern Ireland Human Rights Chief Commissioner Alyson Kilpatrick. While the immediate q...
Anger in the voluntary sector There was anger across Northern Ireland when the government’s funding allocations from the replacement for the...
Belfast/Good Friday Agreement analysis opens new Holywell Trust Conversations series Conversations with key players in the Belfast/Good Frid...
Boris Johnson, Theresa May and David Cameron must accept part of the responsibility for the continuing “gridlock” of politics in Northern Ir...
Political legacy of distrust cannot be wished away, says Donaldson The distrust between Northern Ireland’s political parties remains a legac...
Legacy is being discussed at length at present, following the British government’s proposals to abandon prosecutions and investigations into...
Truth and honesty must be at the heart of how we deal with the legacy of the past and in how politicians in Northern Ireland govern today, s...
If we are to make progress in Northern Ireland’s society, we need to reflect carefully on our core values and ensure that these are reflecte...
The third series of Holywell Trust’s Forward Together podcasts has heard from experts in a range of areas – including the economy, skills, e...
Northern Ireland’s economy has a number of weaknesses. At the heart of these is the shortage of skills – higher levels of skills moves an ec...
Social care provision is in crisis across much of the world. How can the quality of care be maintained or improved? How can it be made avail...
For all the focus on integrated education, if communities continue to live separately then little progress will be made towards integrating...
Concentration of the retail and consumer services sectors in the hands of a limited number of multinational corporations sucks wealth out of...
The Mondragon federation of co-operatives has been the foundation of the economy in Spain's Basque country for decades. It was founded back...
While it is frequently claimed that Northern Ireland has an excellent schools system, it is clear that it is also a divided system. That div...
In all the dozens of podcast interviews broadcast by the Holywell Trust, one idea to strengthen our society has been put forward repeatedly...
Northern Ireland is a different place today, than when the Good Friday Agreement was signed in 1998. It is not just that many more people he...
Never mind Bill Clinton saying, ‘it’s the economy, stupid’, the answers to Northern Ireland’s difficulties are instead perhaps Tony Blair’s...
Education is the key to progress Education is the key to moving our society forward, says Tony Gallagher in the latest Forward Together podc...
The GFA brought peace - but paramilitaries haven’t gone away The Good Friday Agreement ended the bitter conflict, but failed to eliminate th...
Holywell Trust’s third series of Forward Together podcasts is now live! As with the previous series, the focus is on how to make progress in...
Eighteen podcasts and Slugger blogs were produced in the second series of the Holywell Trust’s Forward Together programme. With the completi...
'I'm talking about a culture change in government in Northern Ireland: I mean the civil service and politicians' Evidence-based policy-makin...
‘It is absolutely crazy to think that constitutional change in Ireland would happen overnight’ Consideration of Irish unity needs careful pr...
’The unity conversation needs to be open, transparent, and let's keep open minds, because we need to flesh out what Irish unity would look l...
‘A united Ireland that is socially liberally, tolerant, European and economically successful is attractive’ Irish unity could be an attracti...
FULL EPISODE DESCRIPTION “You can’t rely on a political culture of respect when one doesn’t actually exist” Unionists should engage in the c...
A Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland is overdue and would protect the interests and concerns of all the population, insists Colin Harvey, p...
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FULL EPISODE DESCRIPTION Reconciliation above all Reconciliation is the primary necessity facing Northern Ireland, believes Peter Osborne. P...
FULL EPISODE DESCRIPTION ‘Politicians will argue, they will fight over it and they will come up with reasons for not dealing with the past’...
FULL EPISODE DESCRIPTION ‘There is something seriously and fundamentally wrong’ – Northern Ireland’s housing crisis Although the shortage of...
FULL EPISODE DESCRIPTION ‘My coping mechanism is talking, seeking peace and reconciliation’ Alan McBride’s personal journey is well known, b...
FULL EPISODE DESCRIPTION What is justice? The answer might be obvious, but in past Forward Together podcast interviews it has been noticeabl...
FULL EPISODE DESCRIPTION “Most people believe social care should be free, but there's a lot of confusion out there” Social care must be refo...