The February edition of our newsletter highlights new additions to the website, latest publications, and forthcoming events.

Daphne for Change in Lagan Valley. Friday, 28 May 2010. Nelson McCausland, our Minister for Culture and the Arts has managed to turn Northern Ireland into a laughing stock across the world. The focus of much criticism of the Minister has been on his insistence that creationism be promoted, and while he has thereby turned himself, and thereby the executive, into an object of ridicule, this masks the much more serious issue of Ministerial interference.

Chocolate Makes the World Go Round Tour. Celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight 2008 with the farmers tour of the UK. Friday, 7 March 2008. Divine Chocolate tour in Ireland continues. Mayor of Skibbereen and Divine Chocolate unveil the towns Fairtrade status. A long day ended with a trip to Bantry - an idyllic village on the southern coast of Ireland. The wind was beginning to blow but the warmth and enthusiasm of our welcome was very touching. Be just and be nice.

Wednesday, 25 November 2009. Women consulted for the strategy told the government they not only needed these services, but that, in some instances, they had literally saved their lives.

Notes from an avid follower of Northern Irish politics. Sunday, 22 February 2009. Political opportunism at its best? It highlights once gain how isolated politically Sinn Féin is in the South. One can hardly see Eamon Gilmore forming a voluntary coalition with Adams, Mary Lou and co. Saturday, 21 February 2009. Age discrimination and engaging youth. Sinn Féin has lost a ca.