Investigations & Analysis - Northern Ireland from The Detail

Government Accountability

Salmon and water supplies could be at risk from Sperrins mine waste facility, inquiry hears

Stormont department spent £400,000 on gold mine report rejected as late evidence by Sperrins inquiry

Dalradian rejects claims proposed Sperrins mine would create harmful light pollution

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The Good Friday/Belfast Agreement

More than 93% of unionist parades go ahead without restriction

Good Friday Agreement: More work needs to be done to tackle inequality

Good Friday referendum: ‘I had arguments in my own household, with my own friends’

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Justice & Crime

Belfast visit by US far-right figures raises questions over UK visa rules

14 of those arrested during Ballymena riots have since been reported for domestic abuse

Journalists in Northern Ireland fear surveillance is undermining democracy - report

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Lough Neagh

Moy Park farms spread 20 times more poultry manure on Northern Irish fields than agreed with environmental authorities

Lough Neagh management body recommended entering ownership talks before due diligence, emails reveal

Tommy Greene: Stormont can’t keep ignoring the evidence on Lough Neagh sand dredging

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Legacy

From South Armagh to Strasbourg: the long fight for justice after the Troubles

Finucane Inquiry opens amid promises of full state cooperation

Pat Finucane public inquiry formally opens after 37-year campaign for answers

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Politics

The secret group linked to security services that helped shape the Legacy Act

‘We advise them not to go near the flag areas.’ Migrant leaders on navigating Northern Ireland’s politics

NI proxy voting system should be removed according to expert

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Data

30 femicides in Northern Ireland since 2020 — Belfast rally demands ‘not one more’

Campaigners urge Stormont action after UN genocide findings in Gaza

‘We risk tying ourselves in knots’: Invest NI emails cast doubt on claims of no arms links to Israel

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Education

AI girlfriends ‘reinforce dangerous ideas about how women should behave’ - Women’s Aid

Three-quarters of Irish Traveller children still leave school with fewer than five GCSEs

Trade unions call on Queen’s to scrap contract with company running asylum seeker barges

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Health

'I’d be in floods of tears': Why Northern Ireland still has no mother-and-baby unit

‘You have to keep asking, asking, asking’: Survivors of mother and baby homes still battling to access their records

Health trust forced to pay back tens of thousands to adults with learning disabilities after they were overcharged

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Brexit

‘We advise them not to go near the flag areas.’ Migrant leaders on navigating Northern Ireland’s politics

Denzil McDaniel: Rows over the border have been a constant since 1921

If Stormont is restored, will border areas still be neglected?

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