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By Darren EvansOne project in Northern Ireland has been so successful at reconciling Catholic and Protestant schools that other troubled regions of the world are seeking to adopt its methods. Darren Evans reportsIn the seaside town of Ballycastle, on the craggy, windswept coast of County…

The work of the Participation and the Practice of Rights Project, an Atlantic grantee through the Reconciliation & Human Rights programme in Northern Ireland, is featured in this newly published guide to human rights indicators as an example of how people can effectively use qualitative and…

On 23rd April, 2012, Public Achievement won the Prime Minister’s BIG Society Award, making Public Achievement the first organisation in Northern Ireland to get this award. The above clip is the presentation speech by Minister Hugo Swire at WIMPS HQ.Presenting the BIG award on behalf of…

People who live in rural poverty often remain invisible to society, obscured physically by beautiful scenery and statistically by their wide geographic dispersion. This is particularly true for older people who live in rural poverty.Nearly one-third of the rural elderly in Northern Ireland exist on…

Northern Ireland is a deeply divided society where religious segregation is a feature of almost every aspect of life. For example, 94 per cent of children are educated in religiously segregated schools and, unsurprisingly, research shows that high numbers of young children already have sectarian…

A networking event in Belfast today will spotlight the very real differences young people are making in their communities. Hosted by Belfast actor Dan Gordon, the Impact of Youth event has been organised by five key independent funders - Big Lottery Fund, Rank Foundation, BBC…

Almost 40% of people over 50 in Northern Ireland are planning to cut back on heating their homes because of growing financial strain, according to a new survey. Shock figures revealed that older people are so worried about how they will cope with the spike…

  SUFFOLK Lenadoon Interface Group (SLIG) have hosted Northern Ireland's first ever Interface Soccer tournament at Balmoral High School Playing Fields. Over twenty-five 7-a-side soccer teams from interface areas across Belfast took part in the event and they were joined by local footballing heroes David…

by Henry McDonald The looming threat to power sharing in Northern Ireland deepened yesterday after the first minister, Peter Robinson, warned that the IRA army council has to be dissolved before policing and justice is devolved to the Stormont assembly. The Democratic Unionist leader was…

Original Source THE DUP and Sinn Fein yesterday took a major step towards a deal on devolving policing and justice powers from Westminster to the Northern Ireland Assembly. Both parties have agreed there will be a single department of justice with a minister needing cross-community…