Bronagh Hinds

Clinton: “Keep the cranes up. Keep the voices free. Keep the votes fair. You’ll figure it out.” #GFA20

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on April 10, 2018, 5:31 pm | Readers 1353

Political leaders of old and today gathered at Queen’s University, Belfast for a day of events focussed on the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said that people “should realise that this agreement was never going to support all the problems of Northern Ireland” while former US President Bill Clinton had a triptych of advice for NI: “Keep the cranes up. Keep the voices free. Keep the votes fair. You’ll figure it out.”

Bronagh Hinds on role of women in political discourse at home & abroad #msconversations

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on October 9, 2017, 8:30 am | Readers 620

Peter Buntin and Bronagh Hinds answer questions from the audience at NICVA's Centre for Economic Empowerment 'Creating the good economy' conference in Belfast on 8 November 2011

A REAL PARTICIPATIVE DEMOCRACY is what the NI Women’s Coalition wanted. Cofounder Bronagh Hinds spoke to me about her work in NI and abroad ahead of her appearance next weekend on a panel as part of Mount Stewart Conversations (14-15 October).

At the current rate of progress, gender equality of MLAs at Stormont will only take another 65 years

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on January 25, 2013, 12:00 pm | Readers 181

Bronagh Hinds’ chapter of Everyday Life After the Irish Conflict: The Impact of Devolution and Cross-Border Cooperation [reviewed yesterday] examines women’s political participation points to limited progress in addressing the gender balance of political institutions. The proportion of councillors who are female rose to 24 per cent in 2011 from 14 per cent in 2000. Sounds good. But of the 14 opportunities for co-option in the NI Assembly between 2007 and 2012 2010 “to replace MLAs who had resigned or …