Northern Ireland’s new public policy forum Evolve has hosted its second event, a breakfast digest of the Westminster Election 2010 results. A selected audience from a diverse range of sectors received hot-off-the-press expert analysis from Stakeholder Communications CEO Tom Kelly before engaging in a wide-ranging discussion of the results and their political and economic impact....
Evolve – Northern Ireland’s new public policy forum got off to a flying start with its first event in the Ulster Hall yesterday. The sell-out event, which including public, private, not-for profit and education sector, heard keynote speaker Jack McConnell deliver an engaging presentation on the experience of devolution in Scotland and how the administration...
The next two months will be crucial for Taoiseach Brian Cowen and his government and the poll ratings will provide little comfort. Cowen is right when he says it does not matter whether his ratings stand at 15 per cent or 55 per cent as the job remains the same. But there is no doubt...
Scotland’s longest serving First Minister to address new public policy forum Jack McConnell, Scotland’s longest serving First Minister has been announced as the inaugural speaker for Northern Ireland’s new public policy forum, ‘Evolve’. Speaking at the Ulster Hall on 8th September, Mr. McConnell, who was Scottish First Minister for six years, will give an address on the...
Sometimes the truth hurts. Very often people don’t want the truth, even when they say they do. Take the south of Ireland where very clearly people don’t want to hear about the austerity measures that must take effect to rebuild the economy. Brian Cowen is taking a beating in the polls because he is ‘telling it...
In the last century the English press characterised the Irish as drunken wastrels who were always fighting with each other and anyone else they could find. Punch magazine gave the Irish the most unflattering of caricatures, usually ape-like, wielding shillelaghs and trying to steal. How it must have made the English chattering classes and gentry laugh....