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That Northern Ireland Border Poll Question!
In the upcoming quarterly Belfast Telegraph – LucidTalk Autumn26 poll, LucidTalk will be polling again with those two classic poll questions: Should there be…
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Budget 2027: Why tighter budget will be a difficult sell for the Government in Ireland
Budget 2027 was paradoxically both a giveaway budget and a tighten your belts budget. The Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael coalition have found themselves in an…
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UUP Pre-Conference Blog: Arresting Stagnation – Can Jon Burrows Translate Poll Momentum Into Political Capital?
The Ulster Unionist Party arrives at conference in a very different position from the one it occupied a year ago. Its recent polling has…
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DUP Conference: What next for the party of unionism?
When the DUP gathers at La Mon on 18 and 19 September, it does so in a markedly different position from the one it…
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SDLP Conference: Can the official opposition convert fair conditions into a strong performance?
The SDLP have the wind in their sails heading into their party conference in Belfast this weekend. According to the latest figures from LucidTalk,…
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Can Northern Ireland’s AI Strategy deliver?
Earlier this month, the Executive published its long-awaited draft Artificial Intelligence Strategy. While it recognises that AI can support economic growth and the public sector, the strategy also gives consideration to the vast risks the…
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Why Stormont’s failure to revenue raise is costing us all
In June 2000, during a debate over departmental funding from Westminster, a former MLA gleefully remarked that the “injustices of direct rule were over” and that, with the Assembly…
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Let fall the guillotine: how Dublin is accelerating its legislative agenda
Leinster House is on a legislative roll. Already this year, 26 bills have been signed into law. As Gavin Reilly noted in a recent…
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Northern Ireland: The Wild West for Gambling?
Between 1865 and 1895, the American frontier was a place of rapid expansion and lawlessness, forever immortalised in popular culture by the spaghetti westerns…
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