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The Windsor Framework’s ‘green lane’ for certain goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland is currently being implemented. Professor David Phinnemore and Dr Lisa Claire Whitten consider how ‘green’ the ‘green lane’ is.

The slides and recording of today’s Post-Brexit Clinic are now available.

Measuring the demand for integrated education in Northern Ireland is a complex issue which requires robust and accurate measures says Dr Paula Devine, Dr Erin Early, Dr Minchen Liu and Professor Dirk Schubotz.

The Belfast Good Friday Agreement has had a lasting impact on cancer research and cancer care on the island of Ireland says Professor Mark Lawler.

Imbalance is increasing and competitiveness is decreasing in the English Premiership says Leeds United and Arsenal supporter Professor John Garry.

Dr Ciarán O’Kelly and Dr Ciara Hackett look at whether any lessons have been learned from the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh.

Michael D. Higgins’s attendance at this weekend’s coronation marks a significant break with tradition in regard to Irish attitudes to the coronation of British monarchs since independence says Professor Marie Coleman.

Michelle O’Neill confirming that she will attend King Charles’s coronation is not only a signal to unionists and neighbours across the water but to voters in the Republic of Ireland says Dr Peter McLoughlin.

Dr Peter McLoughlin takes a look of the role of the United States in the negotiations that led to the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.

We are delighted to offer our University campus as a public space for debate and dialogue of immense importance to the local and global challenge of building, maintaining and strengthening peace says Ryan Feeney.