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New Ireland Commission
The New Ireland Commission is an organisation established in 2021 by the Social Democratic and Labour Party that holds discussions with citizens on the possibilities of a United Ireland. History The New Ireland Commission was set up by the SDLP as an organisation that aims to present various options for a New Ireland via citizen engagement. The intention to set up the organisation was announced in July 2020 by the SDLP. In a 2020 submission to University College London's "Working Group on Unification Referendums on the Island of Ireland", the SDLP set out its aims of creating a "New Generation Panel", an "Experts Panel" and a "Reference/Elders Panel". The organisation was launched in 2021 and since then "a significant volume of engagement through private conversations within communities across Northern Ireland has already taken place". There is a particular focus on private conversations with Unionist communities, "towards building an inclusive new Ireland." In May 2021, Ir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SDLP
The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP; ) is a social democratic and Irish nationalist political party in Northern Ireland. The SDLP currently has eight members in the Northern Ireland Assembly ( MLAs) and two members of Parliament (MPs) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The SDLP party platform advocates Irish reunification and, pending the unity of all the people of Ireland and while the northern jurisdiction remains part of the United Kingdom, further devolution of powers. It is a sister party of the UK Labour Party, which maintains an electoral pact with the SDLP not to stand candidates in Northern Ireland but to support SDLP candidates instead. MPs from the SDLP sit with Labour MPs on the government benches when Labour is in power, but do not take the Labour whip, though they informally did so historically. During the Troubles, the SDLP was the most popular Irish nationalist party in Northern Ireland, but since the Provisional IRA ceasefire in 1994, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emer Currie
Emer Currie (born 1 May 1979) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin West constituency since the 2024 general election. She previously served as a Senator from 2020 to 2024, after being nominated by the Taoiseach. She previously served as a member of Fingal County Council from 2019 to 2020. Currie was an unsuccessful candidate at the 2020 general election as the Fine Gael running mate of outgoing Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in Dublin West. She was an unsuccessful candidate at the 2020 Seanad election but was later nominated by the Taoiseach. Her father, Austin Currie, was a founding member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party in Northern Ireland as well as a former Minister of State and TD in the Republic of Ireland. She was elected to the Dáil for the Dublin West constituency at the 2024 general election This is a list of elections that were held in 2024. The National Democratic Institute also maintains a calendar of el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Think Tanks Based In Northern Ireland
In their most common sense, the terms thought and thinking refer to cognitive processes that can happen independently of sensory stimulation. Their most paradigmatic forms are judging, reasoning, concept formation, problem solving, and deliberation. But other mental processes, like considering an idea, memory, or imagination, are also often included. These processes can happen internally independent of the sensory organs, unlike perception. But when understood in the widest sense, any mental event may be understood as a form of thinking, including perception and unconscious mental processes. In a slightly different sense, the term ''thought'' refers not to the mental processes themselves but to mental states or systems of ideas brought about by these processes. Various theories of thinking have been proposed, some of which aim to capture the characteristic features of thought. ''Platonists'' hold that thinking consists in discerning and inspecting Platonic forms and their inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
