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Holywell Trust Conversations
Gerard Deane and Paul Gosling host a new series of podcasts - explainers of some of the challenging issues that our society faces of promoting a wider, more inclusive and engaged conversation about how we make progress and further solidify peace and create a genuinely shared and integrated society i...
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The end of a series
The latest series of Holywell Conversations podcasts began with reflections on the Good Friday Agreement, amidst fears that Northern Ireland’s devolut...
Derry's University Grievance
Derry has been campaigning for a full sized university campus for the last 60 years. The city still holds a grievance over the Lockwood report from 19...
The Legacy Act is Here
The Legacy Act is Here
The widely opposed Legacy Bill is now enacted as the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation)...
The Domestic Violence Crisis
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, almost half...
Learning to listen - the Thirty Project
There is immense frustration across Northern Ireland’s community sector that the Civic Forum collapsed in 2002 and was not replaced. Demands are incre...
Farming in transition
Agriculture is worth around £1.7bn to the Northern Ireland economy, 4% of total economic activity, according to figures published by the Department fo...
The other waiting list crisis
When waiting lists are discussed and shouted about in Northern Ireland, we are usually talking about our disintegrating healthcare system. But there i...
A Tale of One City - and Two Regeneration Sites
Derry is a frustrated city. Too often promises of improvement either come to nothing, or happen too slowly.
Anyone who doubts this can consider...
Good Relations Week
Last week was Good Relations Week, the annual Community Relations Council event that aims to build relationships between people of different backgroun...
Why do we still have 'peace walls'?
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...
Connecting the North West
Derry and Donegal are not only marginalised by their geographic position on the periphery of the island of Ireland, but they are also very badly serve...
Flaming July
Only the most devoted conspiracy theorist could deny climate change given the devastating events of recent weeks. Spring was marked by deadly fires in...
Showing paramilitaries the exit door
Recent weeks have seen a rise in concern about the continuing presence of paramilitaries in our society. Just how we make faster progress in removing...
Where is the Peace Dividend?
A few days ago the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee of the House of Commons was told that for some communities here, the expected peace dividend fro...
Trashing the environment
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 history. I...
Human Rights
Human rights are under threat in the UK, warns the Northern Ireland Human Rights Chief Commissioner Alyson Kilpatrick.
While the immedia...
Funding the North West - Levelling Up and Shared Prosperity Fund
Anger in the voluntary sector
There was anger across Northern Ireland when the government’s funding allocations from the replacement for the Eu...
Belfast Good Friday Agreement - An Explainer
Belfast/Good Friday Agreement analysis opens new Holywell Trust Conversations series
Conversations with key players in the Belfast/Good...
Series 3 - Episode 18 - Peter Hain
Boris Johnson, Theresa May and David Cameron must accept part of the responsibility for the continuing “gridlock” of politics in Northern Ireland, thr...
Series 3 - Episode 17 - Jeffrey Donaldson
Political legacy of distrust cannot be wished away, says Donaldson
The distrust between Northern Ireland’s political parties remains a...
Series 3 - Episode 16 - Michelle O'Neill
Legacy is being discussed at length at present, following the British government’s proposals to abandon prosecutions and investigations into Troubles’...
Series 3 - Episode 15 - Colum Eastwood
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, says Colum...
Series 3 - Episode 14 - Naomi Long
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 reflected in the w...
Series 3 - Episode 13 - Steve Aiken
The third series of Holywell Trust’s Forward Together podcasts has heard from experts in a range of areas – including the economy, skills, education,...
Series 3 - Episode 12 - Ann Watt
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 economy up t...
Series 3 - Episode 11 - John Restakis
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 available to th...
Series 3 - Episode 10 - Paddy Gray
For all the focus on integrated education, if communities continue to live separately then little progress will be made towards integrating our societ...
Series 3 - Episode 9 - Neil McInroy
Concentration of the retail and consumer services sectors in the hands of a limited number of multinational corporations sucks wealth out of local com...
Series 3 - Episode 8 - Prof. Fred Freundlich
The Mondragon federation of co-operatives has been the foundation of the economy in Spain's Basque country for decades. It was founded back in 1956 by...
Series 3 - Episode 7 - Koulla Yaisouma
While it is frequently claimed that Northern Ireland has an excellent schools system, it is clear that it is also a divided system. That division is n...
Series 3 - Episode 6 - Jane Suiter
In all the dozens of podcast interviews broadcast by the Holywell Trust, one idea to strengthen our society has been put forward repeatedly – citizens...
Series 3 - Episode 5 - Lillian Senoi-Barr
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 here today d...
Series 3 - Episode 4 - Seamus McGuinness
Never mind Bill Clinton saying, ‘it’s the economy, stupid’, the answers to Northern Ireland’s difficulties are instead perhaps Tony Blair’s mantra, ‘e...
Series 3 - Episode 3 - Tony Gallagher
Education is the key to progress
Education is the key to moving our society forward, says Tony Gallagher in the latest Forward Together...
Series 3 - Episode 2 - Duncan Morrow
The GFA brought peace - but paramilitaries haven’t gone away
The Good Friday Agreement ended the bitter conflict, but failed to eliminate...
Series 3 - Episode 1 - Simon Hoare MP
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 Northern...
Series 2 - Summary Session
Eighteen podcasts and Slugger blogs were produced in the second series of the Holywell Trust’s Forward Together programme. With the completion of that...
S2 - Episode 18 - Ann Watt
'I'm talking about a culture change in government in Northern Ireland: I mean the civil service and politicians'
Evidence-based po...
S2 - Episode 17 - Seamus McGuinness
‘It is absolutely crazy to think that constitutional change in Ireland would happen overnight’
Consideration of Irish unity needs careful prepar...
S2 - Episode 16 - Ian Marshall
’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 like and wh...