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Northern Ireland (Irish: Tuaisceart Éireann [ˈt̪ˠuəʃcəɾˠt̪ˠ ˈeːɾʲən̪ˠ]; Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a constituent unit of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the northeast of the island of Ireland. It is variously described as a country, province, region, or "part" of the United Kingdom, amongst other terms. Northern Ireland shares a border to the south and west with the Republic of Ireland. In 2011, its population was 1,810,863, constituting about 30% of the island's total population and about 3% of the UK's population. Established by the Northern Ireland Act 1998 as part of the Good Friday Agreement, the Northern Ireland Assembly holds responsibility for a range of devolved policy matters, while other areas are reserved for the British government. Northern Ireland co-operates with the Republic of Ireland in some areas, and the Agreement granted the Republic the ability to "put forward views and proposals" with "determined efforts to resolve disagreements between the two governments".
Ireland (i/ˈaɪərlənd/; Irish: Éire [ˈeːɾʲə]; Ulster-Scots: Airlann [ˈɑːrlən]) is an island in the North Atlantic. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest on Earth.
Politically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially named Ireland), which covers five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom, and located in the northeast of the island. In 2011 the population of Ireland was about 6.4 million, ranking it the second-most populous island in Europe after Great Britain. Just under 4.6 million live in the Republic of Ireland and just over 1.8 million live in Northern Ireland.
The island's geography comprises relatively low-lying mountains surrounding a central plain, with several navigable rivers extending inland. The island has lush vegetation, a product of its mild but changeable climate which avoids extremes in temperature. Thick woodlands covered the island until the Middle Ages. As of 2013, the amount of land that is wooded in Ireland is about 11% of the total, compared with a European average of 35%. There are 26 extant mammal species native to Ireland. The Irish climate is very moderated and classified as oceanic. As a result, winters are milder than expected for such a northerly area. However, summers are cooler than those in Continental Europe. Rainfall and cloud cover are abundant.
Northern may refer to the following:
The Northern Ireland Executive is the administrative branch of the Northern Ireland Assembly, the devolved legislature for Northern Ireland. It is answerable to the Assembly and was established according to the terms of the Northern Ireland Act 1998, which followed the Good Friday Agreement (or Belfast Agreement). The executive is referred to in the legislation as the Executive Committee of the Assembly and is an example of a consociationalist government.
The Northern Ireland Executive consists of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister and various ministers with individual portfolios and remits. The main Assembly parties appoint most ministers in the executive, except for the Minister of Justice who is elected by a cross-community vote. It is one of three devolved governments in the United Kingdom, the others being the Scottish and Welsh Governments.
Until the election to the Northern Ireland Assembly in May 2016, the ministers in the Executive are:
Sinn Féin (/ʃɪn ˈfeɪn/ shin-FAYNIrish pronunciation: [ʃɪnʲ ˈfʲeːnʲ]) is an Irish republican political party active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970 after a split within the party (the other party became the Workers' Party of Ireland), and has been historically associated with the IRA.Gerry Adams has been party president since 1983.
Sinn Féin is currently the second-largest party behind the Democratic Unionist Party in the Northern Ireland Assembly, where it has four ministerial posts in the power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive, and the fourth-largest party in the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic. Sinn Féin also received the second highest number of Northern Ireland votes and seats in the 2015 Westminster elections, behind the DUP.
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How do we know who the new Ministers are going to be? The Executive Ministers are appointed using a mathematical formula, called 'd'Hondt', which ensures that these important positions are filled fairly, based on the wishes of the people who voted in the election. Watch this animation made by the NI Assembly's Education Service to find out how d'Hondt works, and how the Assembly and Executive work together to make laws and decisions which affect all of us in Northern Ireland. (This explanation of d'Hondt is based on what happened after the last election in 2011)
The Northern Ireland Executive is about to disappear, throwing the country into a constitutional crisis and bringing back fearful memories of the 'troubles' which plagued the twentieth century. What is it all about and how did we get here?
The Ulster Unionist Party's ruling body has voted unanimously in favour of withdrawing from government. It follows a proposal made by the UUP's leader Mike Nesbitt to the party's executive. He had made the recommendation after police in Northern Ireland said members of the Provisional IRA were involved in murdering ex-IRA man Kevin McGuigan Sr. Mr Nesbitt said Danny Kennedy, the UUP's only executive minister, would tender his resignation on Tuesday.
An interview with Brian Faulkner the last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland following the failure of the Northern Ireland Executive in 1974. First shown: 30/05/1974 If you would like to license a clip from this video please e mail: archive@fremantlemedia.com Quote: VT9468
A political stalemate in Northern Ireland has put the UK government in a tough spot. It's got two options, to force the region to hold new elections, or to take back control and rule it from London. The last time that happened, it took five years to give power back to Belfast. The current deadlock means Northern Ireland's effectively been without its devolved government for three weeks. And now that the deadline for parties to form a new executive has passed, the UK has a legal obligation to step in. It all began when the late Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness withdrew his party from the Northern Ireland government. That triggered elections that were held on March 2. But the two biggest parties, the Democratic Unionist Party and McGuinness's Sinn Fein, have failed to form...
Executive Committee meeting 11 January 2017
For months now, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin have been at loggerheads, collapsing the Northern Ireland executive at Stormont. Now, as the DUP find themselves thrust into the role of Westminster kingmakers, we take a look at what exactly is happening in Northern Irish politics.
Talks on a new power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland have broken down and no deal is expected before September. The leaders of the province's two main parties announced the news. They've been negotiating since March, after the coalition collapsed in January. "I hope that others involved in this process are looking at the bigger picture as well and are saying ‘we want devolution’. And I think, inherently, that’s the first question everyone has to ask themselves. If you want devolution, the… READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2017/07/04/talks-on-northern-ireland-break-down What are the top stories today? Click to watch: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSyY1udCyYqBeDOz400FlseNGNqReKkFd euronews: the most watched news channel in Europe Subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscri...
Film made for the NIHE in conjunction with the Northern Ireland Youth Forum.
English/Nat First results in elections for Northern Ireland's new government showed strong support for moderate Catholics but bitter divisions within the pro-British Protestant majority. The outcome of the election for the Assembly will have profound implications for Northern Ireland's peace agreement. The deal was struck among eight parties but opposed by two Protestant parties. Results have been trickling in all day. The Sinn Fein leader, Gerry Adams, won a seat in the new Northern Ireland assembly. He topped the poll in West Belfast. Along with Joe Hendron, S-D-L-P (Social Democratic and Labour Party), and the D-U-P's (Democratic Unionist Party) Gregory Campbell, Adams became one of the first winners of the 108 seats. It will be the first time that Sinn Fein, th...
How do we know who the new Ministers are going to be? The Executive Ministers are appointed using a mathematical formula, called 'd'Hondt', which ensures that these important positions are filled fairly, based on the wishes of the people who voted in the election. Watch this animation made by the NI Assembly's Education Service to find out how d'Hondt works, and how the Assembly and Executive work together to make laws and decisions which affect all of us in Northern Ireland. (This explanation of d'Hondt is based on what happened after the last election in 2011)
The Northern Ireland Executive is about to disappear, throwing the country into a constitutional crisis and bringing back fearful memories of the 'troubles' which plagued the twentieth century. What is it all about and how did we get here?
The Ulster Unionist Party's ruling body has voted unanimously in favour of withdrawing from government. It follows a proposal made by the UUP's leader Mike Nesbitt to the party's executive. He had made the recommendation after police in Northern Ireland said members of the Provisional IRA were involved in murdering ex-IRA man Kevin McGuigan Sr. Mr Nesbitt said Danny Kennedy, the UUP's only executive minister, would tender his resignation on Tuesday.
An interview with Brian Faulkner the last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland following the failure of the Northern Ireland Executive in 1974. First shown: 30/05/1974 If you would like to license a clip from this video please e mail: archive@fremantlemedia.com Quote: VT9468
A political stalemate in Northern Ireland has put the UK government in a tough spot. It's got two options, to force the region to hold new elections, or to take back control and rule it from London. The last time that happened, it took five years to give power back to Belfast. The current deadlock means Northern Ireland's effectively been without its devolved government for three weeks. And now that the deadline for parties to form a new executive has passed, the UK has a legal obligation to step in. It all began when the late Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness withdrew his party from the Northern Ireland government. That triggered elections that were held on March 2. But the two biggest parties, the Democratic Unionist Party and McGuinness's Sinn Fein, have failed to form...
Executive Committee meeting 11 January 2017
For months now, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin have been at loggerheads, collapsing the Northern Ireland executive at Stormont. Now, as the DUP find themselves thrust into the role of Westminster kingmakers, we take a look at what exactly is happening in Northern Irish politics.
Talks on a new power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland have broken down and no deal is expected before September. The leaders of the province's two main parties announced the news. They've been negotiating since March, after the coalition collapsed in January. "I hope that others involved in this process are looking at the bigger picture as well and are saying ‘we want devolution’. And I think, inherently, that’s the first question everyone has to ask themselves. If you want devolution, the… READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2017/07/04/talks-on-northern-ireland-break-down What are the top stories today? Click to watch: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSyY1udCyYqBeDOz400FlseNGNqReKkFd euronews: the most watched news channel in Europe Subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscri...
Film made for the NIHE in conjunction with the Northern Ireland Youth Forum.
English/Nat First results in elections for Northern Ireland's new government showed strong support for moderate Catholics but bitter divisions within the pro-British Protestant majority. The outcome of the election for the Assembly will have profound implications for Northern Ireland's peace agreement. The deal was struck among eight parties but opposed by two Protestant parties. Results have been trickling in all day. The Sinn Fein leader, Gerry Adams, won a seat in the new Northern Ireland assembly. He topped the poll in West Belfast. Along with Joe Hendron, S-D-L-P (Social Democratic and Labour Party), and the D-U-P's (Democratic Unionist Party) Gregory Campbell, Adams became one of the first winners of the 108 seats. It will be the first time that Sinn Fein, th...
Steven Agnew proposes a motion that this Assembly acknowledges that it is in the public interest for there to be openness, transparency and accountability in relation to the Northern Ireland Executive.
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Alex Easton proposes a motion that this Assembly calls on the Minister for Communities to hold the Northern Ireland Housing Executive to account for its failure to address the lack of, or poor quality of, cavity insulation within many Housing Executive properties.
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The Committee met in the Senate Chamber on Wednesday 14th September 2016. During the meeting they discussed the Inquiry into Department of Education, the Inquiry into the Governance of Land and property in the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, the Inquiry into Non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme and the Inquiry into Management Legal Aid.
In the United Kingdom, devolution refers to the statutory granting of powers from the Parliament of the United Kingdom to the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales, the Northern Ireland Assembly and the London Assembly and to their associated executive bodies the Scottish Government, the Welsh Government, the Northern Ireland Executive and the Greater London Authority. Devolution differs from federalism in that the devolved powers of the subnational authority ultimately reside in central government, thus the state remains, de jure, a unitary state. Legislation creating devolved parliaments or assemblies can be repealed or amended by central government in the same way as any statute. This video is targeted to blind users. Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA ...
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Her Majesty's Prison Maze (previously Long Kesh Detention Centre and known colloquially as the Maze Prison, The Maze, the H Blocks or Long Kesh) was a prison in Northern Ireland that was used to house paramilitary prisoners during the Troubles from mid-1971 to mid-2000. It was situated at the former Royal Air Force station of Long Kesh, on the outskirts of Lisburn. This was in the townland of Maze, about nine miles (14 km) southwest of Belfast. The prison and its inmates were involved in such events as the 1981 hunger strike. The prison was closed in 2000 and demolition began on 30 October 2006, but on 18 April 2013 it was announced by the Northern Ireland Executive that the remaining buildings would be redeveloped into a peace centre.
Her Majesty's Prison Maze (previously Long Kesh Detention Centre and known colloquially as the Maze Prison, The Maze, the H Blocks or Long Kesh) was a prison in Northern Ireland that was used to house paramilitary prisoners during the Troubles from mid-1971 to mid-2000. It was situated at the former Royal Air Force station of Long Kesh, on the outskirts of Lisburn. This was in the townland of Maze, about nine miles (14 km) southwest of Belfast. The prison and its inmates played a prominent role in recent Irish history, notably in the 1981 hunger strike. The prison was closed in 2000 and demolition began on 30 October 2006, but on 18 April 2013 it was announced by the Northern Ireland Executive that the remaining buildings would be redeveloped into a peace centre.[1]
Northern Ireland
Situation
War, within a single nation
No one thinks of it as war
That's what television's for
Embroidering reality, with clichés and ???
We'll call this war the 'troubles'
Confuse the masses with initials
(IRA, UVA, UVA, IRA, ILA, IUC)
There's so many sides involved
And no one thinks it can be solved
Avoidance of the history of suppression, death and misery
Will leave the people, ignorant of everything that's relevant
So who is who defending, and who's protecting who?
Until you know the answers, don't pretend you do do do do don't pretend you do!
So we see the brave young soldiers
And we read about the murders
Then we place our weak opinions
On what the papers tell us
But telling half the truth is as bad as telling lies
For a war to keep continuing
There has to be two sides!
But who is who defending, who's protecting who?
Until you know the answers, don't pretend you do do do do don't pretend you do!
Supporting one side or the other
Is really nothing more
Than saying there is no solution
But to carry on the war
And both the IRA and the army
Are equally to blame
In general terms of violence
You know they're doing just, they're doing just, they're doing just the same
Doing just the same
So who is who defending, and who's protecting who?
Until you know the answers, don't pretend you do do do do don't pretend you do!