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Our day wraps up with our final panel, chaired by the @IrishTimes’s @MarkHennessy, featuring @pivotalpolicy’s Ann Watt, Prof. @annmgray from @UlsterUni, Patrick Gallagher from @ExecOfficeNI, and @ESRIDublin’s Frances Ruane to discuss all the topics we’ve covered today.
“To promote social unity, we must address educational gaps and equity.”
Our education panel today with @QUBelfast Profs. Joanne Hughes & @hayward_katy and @tcddublin Prof. John FitzGerald addressed the need for advancing education access, return graduates, and integration.
Our next panel underway at Rebooting the Public Sector - Housing & Infrastructure 🏠🏗️
• Prof. Paul Carmichael FAcSS, Ulster University - chair
•Prof. Ann-Marie Gray FAcSS, Ulster University / SPA / ARK -chair
•Prof. Martin Haran, Ulster University
📍 @UlsterUni
Our Health panel at today’s “Rebooting the Public Sector” event at @UlsterUni, with @CfSocialScience.
@UlsterUni Professor @deirdreheenan, @QUBelfast Professor @QUBCancerProf, and former Head of the NICS, Sir @DavidSterling7 guiding our discussion today.
Former Permanent Secretary Anthony Harbinson, @UlsterUni Professor Marianne Doherty, and Drew Harris, former Deputy Chief Constable of the PSNI, joined our panel today to address how can the next Stormont Executive work to better support law enforcement and crime prevention?
How can the next Stormont Executive deliver positive public service transformation?
Full house in Belfast this morning for ‘Rebooting the Public Sector’, presented by ARINS, @UlsterUni @CfSocialScience @UKAPA_1918
Opening keynote from Prof. Matt Flinders @unibirmingham 💡
ARINS launches this important policy brief at the RIA today.
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Jules Linden, John Fitzgerald and Cathal O'Donoghue,
'Climate action on the island of Ireland: a shared challenge; a divided response'.
📖 here: ria.ie/reports/arins-policy-…
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In today’s Budget-busting @businessposthq some - purely personal - thoughts on the careful planning needed on the paths to eventual border polls, with nods to @ArinsProject and @JohnDoyleDCU
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail. In @businessposthq 🏴Brexit (and personal) reflections on preparing to prepare for a border poll. In which feature, inter alia, @andyburnham @AkaPaulHoward Trump, Stendahl and Visconti @ArinsProject and @JohnDoyleDCU
businesspost.ie/analysis-opi…
ARINS PODCAST - Institutional Reform in Northern Ireland with @AlanWhysallNI @AGMcCormick and Rory Montgomery podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcas…
What happens next if power sharing at Stormont collapses over Drumcree ?ria.ie/blog/what-happens-nex…
This article originally appeared on ukandeu.ac.uk/ @UKandEU
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Excellent, academic insight into the depressing and concerning stand-off at Drumcree @ArinsProject @UKandEU
ukandeu.ac.uk/what-happens-n…
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📅 Less than 4 weeks to go
Join us, in conjunction with @UlsterUni and @ArinsProject, on 23 Oct to explore how the next Stormont Executive can deliver positive public service transformation.
➡️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/rebooting…
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Colin Graham @19acres normally presents the My Identity podcast for @ArinsProject and has done so much to facilitate greater North / South understanding. Tonight he launched his memoir of an 1980s East Belfast childhood and his long journey to @MaynoothUni School of English.
Northern Ireland’s ‘brain drain’ a figment of the imagination, ESRI report suggests
irishtimes.com/politics/2026…
As controversy grows over Leaving Cert reform, Northern Ireland is going the other way
irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…
Northern Ireland’s ‘brain drain’ a figment of the imagination, ESRI report suggests irishtimes.com/politics/2026…
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@dkennytcd & Conor Kelly reiterate/remind us of UCL Refs report on likely/probable evidence used by SoS in calling ref, but also the need to consult with Irish gov 1st, given ref has to occur here too. Also reiterating @PatLeahyIT - no evidence of maj support in NI for UI yet
How would a Border poll on Irish unity get called in Northern Ireland? an article by @dkennytcd & @ConorKellyLDN of the Arins Constitutional Futures group @NotreDame @KeoughGlobalND
irishtimes.com/politics/2026…
How would a Border poll on Irish unity get called in Northern Ireland? an article by @dkennytcd & @ConorKellyLDN of the Arins Constitutional Futures group @NotreDame @KeoughGlobalND
irishtimes.com/politics/2026…
Don't forget to register for: Rebooting the Public Sector!
Places are going fast
eventbrite.co.uk/e/rebooting…
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Very interesting morning so far at @CCBSCrossBorder 'Creating, strengthening and retaining talent on the island of Ireland'.
Lots of thoughtful, necessary discussion on cross-border student mobility.
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