Smyth, Peter(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2005)
This paper reviews the story of North-South cooperation after 1999. Because of the sensitivities associated with North-South cooperation, the initial meetings of the North/South Ministerial Council were important as much ...
Tannam, Etain(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2004)
This paper re-visits the theme of the reasons for economic co-operation between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and whether economic co-operation spills over to political co-operation. The article examines the ...
This paper is based on a set of case studies of cross-border co-operation, and focuses
in particular on four of these: youth training, health, economic development
and electricity generation. While each sector raises ...
This paper examines the impact of the Belfast Agreement on north-south economic
cooperation in Ireland, using the tourism industry as a case study. The first part of
the paper sets out the suggested benefits that may ...
Ahern, Bertie(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2005)
This paper emphasises the central role of the Good Friday Agreement as the continuing blueprint for future political developments. The North-South bodies established under its auspices have worked quietly but efficiently ...
Kennedy, Michael(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2006)
From 1942 to 1957 North and South co-operated to enable the Irish Electricity Supply Board to build the most effective power plant possible on the River Erne in southern territory by ensuring that, through dredging and ...
Opening Address by Sir George Quigle.
Has Devolution Delivered a Shared Society in Northern Ireland by Tony Kennedy:
This paper will look at what has been achieved at the Government level and compare this with progress ...
This paper compares adversarial with cooperative industrial and trade policies in a dynamic oligopoly game in which a home and foreign firm compete in R&D and output and,
because of spillovers, each firm benefits from the ...
A POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE:
The current difficulties in the peace process need to be addressed as a matter of urgency. Although the two governments claim that the IRA is the only obstacle to a lasting settlement, the reality ...