Mark Hennessy
Ireland and Britain Editor at Irish Times
Ireland and Britain Editor. The Irish Times, now leading the "Common Ground" project: https://t.co/sn4E6KLfZV @itcommonground
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Mark Hennessy
Plans by the BBC to stop people outside of the UK listening to its hugely-popular BBC Sounds service have been delayed, as it makes arrangements to ensure that their radio stations can be found on other platforms. Last month, listeners outside the UK learned they were to lose access to BBC Sounds from late April, though they would be able to continuing listening live to BBC Radio 4 and the World Service on BBC.com. The move was to include those in the Republic.
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irishtimes.com | Mark Hennessy
Changes made this year for Northern Ireland students wanting to go to colleges and universities in the Republic should increase the numbers who qualify for places, the Minister for Further and Higher Education James Lawless has said. Speaking in Belfast following meetings with leading Queen’s University figures, including vice-chancellor Ian Greer, Mr Lawless said he wanted to see more students crossing the Border in both directions to study. “That’s really important.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Mark Hennessy
Never a stranger to Northern Ireland over the last 30 years, former US Senator George Mitchell, who led the Good Friday Agreement negotiations, came to Belfast on Wednesday to pass the torch on to a new generation. “A handful of hopefuls can create change. Hope then meets hope, and that hope creates an overwhelming wave,” the statesman told hundreds of young people gathered in the Whitla Hall in Queen’s University Belfast.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Mark Hennessy
The Minister for Justice, Jim O’Callaghan, has reached an agreement with the head of the Omagh bombing inquiry, Lord Turnbull, that will clear the way for senior Irish figures to give oral evidence to the investigation into the 1998 atrocity. The so-far unpublished memorandum sets out working arrangements that will cover “the lawful disclosure of materials from government departments” in the Republic, and their agencies, according to a statement from the Department of Justice this afternoon.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Mark Hennessy
Workers in the Republic pay twice as much tax as those in Northern Ireland, but they are still better off, according to major research carried out by the Economic and Social Research Institute. Northern Irish workers pay on average just €2,980 income tax annually – “less than half” of the Republic’s average of €6,724, partly explained by higher wages and a tax system that progressively takes more from higher earners.
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