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Demand Isn’t the Problem: Infrastructure Capacity Is Holding Northern Ireland Back Executive Summary Northern Ireland’s infrastructure challenge is not a lack of demand for housing, jobs, or investment. It is a lack of capacity in essential networks, particularly wastewater infrastructure and, increasingly, electricity. Independent audit evidence shows that in many towns and cities, infrastructure systems […]
Top 25 Metrics Increasing in Northern Ireland (Focusing on Negative Indicators Like Delays) Based on recent statistics from 2024-2025, here’s a compiled list of the top 25 metrics that have shown upward trends in Northern Ireland. These primarily cover areas like healthcare delays, economic pressures, social issues, and health challenges, ranked roughly by sector and […]
A New Year, A New Opportunity: The Strangford Lough Crossing Campaign Enters 2026 January 2026 As we enter 2026, the Strangford Lough Crossing campaign stands at a pivotal moment. Behind the statistics and technical documents lies a simple human story: communities divided by water that should be connected by infrastructure, families facing daily choices between […]
Casement Park Update January 2026 As we enter 2026 and to communicate clearly, to grassroots GAA followers, what is known about Casement Park and based on the publically available information, as of today, the sources referenced in this Casement Park Status Update are: These three sources provided the factual information on the project status, financial […]
The Missing Link: How Strangford Lough Crossing Unlocks Cross-Border Rail Access January 2026 Ireland’s Dublin-Belfast Enterprise train service has achieved 40% passenger growth since October 2024—a Shared Island success story. Yet 164,200 peninsula residents remain excluded by one barrier: the Strangford Ferry. The Ferry Constraint Operating just 15.25 hours daily (07:30-22:45), the ferry creates an […]
Kellie, thank you for engaging with the Strangford Lough Crossing proposal following the Chronicle coverage, which actually never mentioned SLC. MLA is simply requesting a feasibility study as part of a ‘focused, coherent plan’. I appreciate you sharing your concerns via Facebook response to the article, and I’d like to address each point with the […]
M1/M2 legal enablement; A5 quicksands; a depolitized delivery way forward for remainder of current mandate and into next. The M1 and M2 motorways in Northern Ireland were legally enabled primarily through the Special Roads Act (Northern Ireland) 1963, which provided the statutory authority for designating and constructing “special roads” (the legal term for motorways) restricted […]