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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...
S2 - Episode 15 - Will Glendinning
EPISODE SUMMARY ‘A united Ireland that is socially liberally, tolerant, European and economically successful is attractive’ Irish unity could be an attractive o...
S2 - Episode 14 - Julie-Anne Corr-Johnston
EPISODE SUMMARY TO FOLLOW “You can’t rely on a political culture of respect when one doesn’t actually exist” Unionists should engage in the conversation around ...
S2 - Episode 13 - Colin Harvey
EPISODE SUMMARY Colin Harvey professor of Human Rights at Queen's University, Belfast. He was talking in the latest Forward Together podcast from the Holywell Tr...
S2 - Episode 12 - Roisin Marshall
EPISODE SUMMARY To follow
S2 - Episode 11 - Peter Osborne
EPISODE SUMMARY Reconciliation above all Reconciliation is the primary necessity facing Northern Ireland, believes Peter Osborne. Peter is a former chair of bo...
S2 - Episode 10 - Denis Bradley
EPISODE SUMMARY ‘Politicians will argue, they will fight over it and they will come up with reasons for not dealing with the past’ It was hoped that the Patten...
S2 - Episode 9 - Marissa McMahon
EPISODE SUMMARY ‘There is something seriously and fundamentally wrong’ – Northern Ireland’s housing crisis Although the shortage of housing was a major issue i...
S2 - Episode 8 - Alan McBride
EPISODE SUMMARY ‘My coping mechanism is talking, seeking peace and reconciliation’ Alan McBride’s personal journey is well known, but remarkable nonetheless. I...
S2 - Episode 7 - Daniel Holder
EPISODE SUMMARY What is justice? The answer might be obvious, but in past Forward Together podcast interviews it has been noticeable that the responses to that que...
S2 - Episode 6 - Deirdre Heenan
EPISODE SUMMARY Social care must be reformed. If it wasn’t clear before the Covid-19 pandemic, it has become tragically obvious over recent weeks. So this is an op...
S2 - Episode 5 - Jim Dornan
EPISODE SUMMARY “Epidemiologically, we're all one Ireland” It is clear that health services in both Northern Ireland and the Republic will need to be reformed ...
S2 - Episode 4 - Suzanne Rodgers
EPISODE SUMMARY “Journalists have always had to have integrity” The media are at a crossroads, with fears over the future of some of Northern Ireland’s best kno...
S2 - Episode 3 - John Fitzgerald
EPISODE SUMMARY John FitzGerald is one of Ireland’s most respected and influential economists –formerly research professor at the Economic and Social Research Inst...
S2 - Episode 2 - Siobhan O'Neill
EPISODE SUMMARY Mental health is a global challenge, but poor mental health is at crisis levels in Northern Ireland. That crisis is in part an ongoing impact from ...
S2 - Episode 1 - Jess Sargeant
EPISODE SUMMARY In the first episode of Series 2 Paul interviews Jess Sargeant from the Institute for Government. The Institute for Government published a review o...
Review 4 - Constitutional Question
EPISODE SUMMARY In the final review episode of the Forward Together Podcast our invited panel considered the future of Northern Ireland. A panel considered how ...
Review 3 - Addressing The Past
EPISODE SUMMARY Dealing with the past A discussion on how to deal with the past was held as part of a concluding reflection on the Holywell Trust’s series of For...
Review 2 - Shared & Integrated Society
EPISODE SUMMARY Creating a shared and integrated society A discussion on how to create a shared and integrated society was held as part of a concluding reflectio...
Review 1 - Civic Voice
REVIEW SUMMARY A discussion on how to strengthen civic society was held as part of a concluding reflection on the Holywell Trust’s series of Forward Together podcas...
Episode 35 - Freya McClements
EPISODE SUMMARY “You want to do them justice and to do their stories justice.” Telling the stories of the children who died in the Troubles. “We've done interv...