Investigations & Analysis - Northern Ireland from The Detail

Government Accountability

Pet welfare complaints soar to five-year high

Farms broke environmental rules thousands of times over last decade

Farm planning fraud not properly investigated, Audit Office finds

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Justice & Crime

Care home shortages force scores of children to stay in juvenile detention

‘She can't cope in there’: Teenager with severe learning difficulties has to stay in jail due to lack of care home places

Review into surveillance of journalists 'does not go far enough'

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Data

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

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

Maria Hassan: Recent protests show why hate crime legislation is needed

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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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Lough Neagh

Probe into destruction of files on controversial tax relief scheme finds 'no wrongdoing'

Lough Neagh: Major review into sand dredging will include long-awaited survey of the lake bed

Peat being cut at protected site near Lough Neagh and ‘sold to garden centres’

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Education

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

Queen's University has travel contract with company running asylum seeker barges

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Legacy

Barry McCaffrey: PSNI must come clean over spying operation against me and other journalists

‘The Legacy Act, do you know what is for? To keep us all quiet and hope we go away’

British Government protected security forces from justice during Troubles, international experts find

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The Good Friday/Belfast Agreement

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’

Good Friday Agreement: Most deprived areas still waiting on peace dividend

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