Investigations & Analysis - Northern Ireland from The Detail

Legacy

UK Government silent over MI5 influence on new policy plans relating to Troubles

Official Secrets Act reform could target journalists exposing state failings in Troubles’ killings

Over 150 sets of Troubles-era documents concealed from public in 2020

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Justice & Crime

Official Secrets Act reform could target journalists exposing state failings in Troubles’ killings

Criticism of proposed changes to PSNI’s storage of public’s DNA and fingerprints

PSNI trained Gulf regime ahead of crackdown

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Health

Covid-19 care home review terms of reference only set 10 days before report publication

Belfast Trust “unlawful” in denying people freedom to leave care homes

"No clinical evidence” for majority of Belfast neurologist's reviewed patients' blood patches

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Government Accountability

Ulster Museum’s famed mummy Takabuti was donated by slave-owner

Hawaiian representative appeals for museum to repatriate human skulls

Housing Executive sought to use homelessness funds for repatriation flights

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Brexit

ROBORDER: PSNI developing AI-controlled border surveillance system

Legal challenge aims to establish if Boris Johnson signed Withdrawal Agreement in bad faith

Reflections on Shared Island Unit launch

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Politics

Call for Sinn Féin to apply its southern housing policies to west Belfast “housing crisis”

No assurance from Foster and O’Neill on age discrimination law timing despite political pressure

Are you being served? NIO tight-lipped on Secretary of State's time in Northern Ireland

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The Good Friday/Belfast Agreement

Home Office policy led hundreds in Northern Ireland to renounce British citizenship

Policing in Northern Ireland: how the past threatens the future

The Changing Mosaic: Northern Ireland’s New Communities

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Education

Queen’s University investigating if historical benefactors had links to slavery

Queen's University fails to address issues relating to Chinese flights

Call for more support to educate Northern Ireland’s most vulnerable children

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Data

Calls for Health Department to do more for refugee and asylum seeker doctors

Significant increase in people refused entry to Republic of Ireland in 2019 "deeply concerning"

Division over abortion exposed during COVID-19 despite change in law

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