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Series 3 - Episode 16 - Michelle O'Neill
Legacy is being discussed at length at present, following the British government’s proposals to abandon prosecutions and investigations into Troubles’ events. But ther...
Series 3 - Episode 15 - Colum Eastwood
Truth and honesty must be at the heart of how we deal with the legacy of the past and in how politicians in Northern Ireland govern today, says Colum Eastwood, leader ...
Series 3 - Episode 14 - Naomi Long
If we are to make progress in Northern Ireland’s society, we need to reflect carefully on our core values and ensure that these are reflected in the way government wor...
Series 3 - Episode 13 - Steve Aiken
The third series of Holywell Trust’s Forward Together podcasts has heard from experts in a range of areas – including the economy, skills, education, young people’s ex...
Series 3 - Episode 12 - Ann Watt
Northern Ireland’s economy has a number of weaknesses. At the heart of these is the shortage of skills – higher levels of skills moves an economy up the value chain, l...
Series 3 - Episode 11 - John Restakis
Social care provision is in crisis across much of the world. How can the quality of care be maintained or improved? How can it be made available to those who need it? ...
Series 3 - Episode 10 - Paddy Gray
For all the focus on integrated education, if communities continue to live separately then little progress will be made towards integrating our society. So developing ...
Series 3 - Episode 9 - Neil McInroy
Concentration of the retail and consumer services sectors in the hands of a limited number of multinational corporations sucks wealth out of local communities and into...
Series 3 - Episode 8 - Prof. Fred Freundlich
The Mondragon federation of co-operatives has been the foundation of the economy in Spain's Basque country for decades. It was founded back in 1956 by a priest - José ...
Series 3 - Episode 7 - Koulla Yaisouma
While it is frequently claimed that Northern Ireland has an excellent schools system, it is clear that it is also a divided system. That division is not just based on ...
Series 3 - Episode 6 - Jane Suiter
In all the dozens of podcast interviews broadcast by the Holywell Trust, one idea to strengthen our society has been put forward repeatedly – citizens’ assemblies. The...
Series 3 - Episode 5 - Lillian Senoi-Barr
Northern Ireland is a different place today, than when the Good Friday Agreement was signed in 1998. It is not just that many more people here today do not feel aligne...
Series 3 - Episode 4 - Seamus McGuinness
Never mind Bill Clinton saying, ‘it’s the economy, stupid’, the answers to Northern Ireland’s difficulties are instead perhaps Tony Blair’s mantra, ‘education, educati...
Series 3 - Episode 3 - Tony Gallagher
Education is the key to progress Education is the key to moving our society forward, says Tony Gallagher in the latest Forward Together podcast interview. But that...
Series 3 - Episode 2 - Duncan Morrow
The GFA brought peace - but paramilitaries haven’t gone away The Good Friday Agreement ended the bitter conflict, but failed to eliminate the poison of paramilitari...
Series 3 - Episode 1 - Simon Hoare MP
Holywell Trust’s third series of Forward Together podcasts is now live! As with the previous series, the focus is on how to make progress in Northern Ireland and heal ...
Series 2 - Summary Session
Eighteen podcasts and Slugger blogs were produced in the second series of the Holywell Trust’s Forward Together programme. With the completion of that programme, the H...
S2 - Episode 18 - Ann Watt
'I'm talking about a culture change in government in Northern Ireland: I mean the civil service and politicians' Evidence-based policy-making is largely absent from...
S2 - Episode 17 - Seamus McGuinness
‘It is absolutely crazy to think that constitutional change in Ireland would happen overnight’ Consideration of Irish unity needs careful preparation, argues Seamus...
S2 - Episode 16 - Ian Marshall
’The unity conversation needs to be open, transparent, and let's keep open minds, because we need to flesh out what Irish unity would look like and what the UK union w...