One strand of the ESRC funded research we are undertaking involves interview and focus group research within Northern Ireland. The research is designed to be participatory and allow participants a central role in the design of the questions, the way they are answered, and the outcomes of the project.
Continue readingProf O’Donoghue on BBC Breakfast
Prof Aoife O’Donoghue was on the BBC Breakfast couch on the 31st August explaining why prorogation of Parliament will so limit the room for manoeuvre of those opposed to the UK Governments plans. She discussed the prospects of the various legal challenges to prorogation as well as the Parliamentary processes that might result.
de Mars and Murray at the University of Lincoln Borders Conference
Colin Murray and Sylvia de Mars travelled to sunny Lincoln to present ongoing work to academic colleagues. Their papers were titled:
- Murray, ‘When the Ground Moves Beneath Your Feet: Bordering Ireland in the 1920s’
- de Mars, ‘Born, Resident, Settled and Unsettled?’
Here is Sylvia inaction!
Evidence to the EU Scrutiny Committee on the Post-Brexit Scrutiny of EU Law and Policy
The research team support the inquiry of the EU Scrutiny Committee as they seek to understand how EU law will be monitored and assessed within the UK after Brexit.
Common Travel Area Memorandum of Understanding: a Brexit consolation prize?
Colin Murray writes for the LSE Brexit Blog… ‘With the end of Theresa May’s premiership the Withdrawal Agreement she had concluded with the EU receded out of her reach, in a “here’s-what-you-could-have-won” game-show moment. But what does she take home? What international agreement can be set against her three-year tenure in Downing Street? The Common Travel Area Memorandum of Understanding, concluded in May 2018, could be cast as her solitary “set-of-steak-knives” consolation prize’.
Read the whole blog here.
The rise and fall of Northern Ireland’s voice in Brexit negotiations.
In this blog post for the LSE Brexit Blog, Dr. Sylvia de Mars examines the rise and (future) fall of Northern Ireland’s importance in Brexit negotiations.
Continue readingLife after Brexit: What would unifying Ireland actually entail?
In this blog post for the LSE Brexit Blog, Professor Aoife O’Donoghue outlines the legal aspects of the potential process for bringing about Irish unification after Brexit.
Continue readingCTA deal ‘a step in right direction but more needed’
Aoife O’Donoghue is quoted in this piece in the Irish News on the Common Travel Area agreement.
She said that the memorandum of understanding is a way of putting “Irish and UK citizens on a much firmer footing”.
Although an international treaty would be “preferred”, Prof O’Donoghue said the new rules can be used by courts to interpret domestic legislation, including provisions in Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement.
“There still remains a whole host of issues, especially for those living in Northern Ireland, but this is a positive step forward,” she said.
Murray Speaks at the Newcastle University Brexit Conference
Colin Murray gave a paper to the Newcastle University Brexit Conference on ‘Northern Ireland’s Constitution and Brexit’, where he discussed the fallout for Northern Ireland, as well as the ways the region continues to shape Brexit outcomes.
See him in full flow below!
