social exclusion

“It’s as if there’s an imaginary football wall with another stadium that side…”

Mick Fealty on December 4, 2015, 1:41 pm

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TWO HALVES: A report from Ulster University reveals some unexpectedly positive attitudes towards promoting inclusion in soccer in Ireland. It may be that sport engenders a positive, ‘what can we do to make things better’ attitude, whereas politicians are more likely to ask of any proposed changes: ‘what’s in it for us’?

#SluggerSoapbox: Who speaks for poor children in Northern Ireland?

Soapbox on December 12, 2014, 11:27 am

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Professor Paddy Hillyard occupies the chair in Social Policy at Queens University in Belfast. His most research has focused on poverty, conflict and inequality in Northern Ireland, and the range of the social harms which people experience from the cradle to the grave. A draft budget has been circulated for consultation. The heads of some of our most powerful institutions have received extensive publicity on how the cuts will affect them. But who speaks up for poor and disadvantaged children in our …