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		<title>Letting go of the past</title>
		<link>http://waleshome.org/2011/05/letting-go-of-the-past/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 06:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heledd Fychan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nationalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northern Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Though there were some protests when the Queen visited Ireland, the nation mainly welcomed her with open arms. Can Wales learn any lessons from this mature approach to former oppressors?]]></description>
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		<title>Allowing politics to succeed</title>
		<link>http://waleshome.org/2010/04/allowing-politics-to-suceed/</link>
		<comments>http://waleshome.org/2010/04/allowing-politics-to-suceed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Higgitt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Postcard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 General Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northern Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public sector]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shaun Woodward]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Shaun Woodward is the longest serving Labour Northern Ireland Secretary. With the last piece of devolution now in place, does he think now is the time to merge his department with that of Wales and Scotland's?]]></description>
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		<title>What’s to stop the Department of the Nations now?</title>
		<link>http://waleshome.org/2010/03/whats-to-stop-the-departnment-of-the-nations-now/</link>
		<comments>http://waleshome.org/2010/03/whats-to-stop-the-departnment-of-the-nations-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Higgitt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bubble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[constitutional reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[devolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northern Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[referendum]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://waleshome.org/?p=8510</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With policing in Northern Ireland passed to Stormon, there seems little rationale for preserving three separate territorial offices for the devolved nations. Ironically, The Wales Office might now have the best reason to stand alone]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>In praise of boring politics</title>
		<link>http://waleshome.org/2010/03/in-praise-of-boring-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://waleshome.org/2010/03/in-praise-of-boring-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rt Hon Paul Murphy MP</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[devolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northern Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Murphy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://waleshome.org/?p=8595</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week's historic agreement on the completion of devolution in Northern Ireland was greeted with more of a disinterested grunt than a cheer. Good, says one of those at the centre of the original Belfast Agreement negotiations in 1998]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mo show for Murphy</title>
		<link>http://waleshome.org/2010/01/mo-show-for-murphy/</link>
		<comments>http://waleshome.org/2010/01/mo-show-for-murphy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Higgitt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reflection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northern Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Murphy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://waleshome.org/?p=7358</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Mowlam drama-doc omitted the Welshman at the heart of the Northern Ireland peace process]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>My flabber is gasted – UPDATED 22/01/10</title>
		<link>http://waleshome.org/2010/01/my-flabber-is-gasted/</link>
		<comments>http://waleshome.org/2010/01/my-flabber-is-gasted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daran Hill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bubble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lembit Opik]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northern Ireland]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://waleshome.org/?p=6840</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I blogged on Iris Robinson and my lack of sympathy for her situation. One thing I did not touch on was the financial question mark hanging over her which was expertly pinpointed in both the Spotlight programme from Northern Ireland and also by Panorama. Print and broadcast media have since spent time dissecting [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Now is the time for us to work together</title>
		<link>http://waleshome.org/2009/10/now-is-the-time-for-us-to-work-together/</link>
		<comments>http://waleshome.org/2009/10/now-is-the-time-for-us-to-work-together/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bethan Jenkins AM</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Postcard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bethan Jenkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Irish Parliamentary Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[devolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gerry Adams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northern Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recession]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://waleshome.org/?p=3463</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ireland’s current economic crisis should also be a concern for Wales, and this week's meeting of the British Irish Parliamentary Assembly provides the perfect place to start pooling our expertise - and experience in devolution - to find solutions that suit the Celtic nations ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>A meander around the constitutional crossroads</title>
		<link>http://waleshome.org/2009/08/a-meander-around-the-constitutional-crossroads/</link>
		<comments>http://waleshome.org/2009/08/a-meander-around-the-constitutional-crossroads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bethan Jenkins AM</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bubble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bethan Jenkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[constitutional reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[devolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northern Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plaid Cymru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scotland]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://waleshome.org/?p=1113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Patrick Hannan's latest book "A Useful Fiction" provides brain food for those willing to question their identity and the role of Britishness within it. But it does not - and cannot - answer the big question about the UK's constitutional crossroads]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The concilliator</title>
		<link>http://waleshome.org/2009/07/the-concilliator/</link>
		<comments>http://waleshome.org/2009/07/the-concilliator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan Higgitt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bubble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[devolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expenses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northern Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Murphy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Secretary of State for Wales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Welsh Labour]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://waleshome.org/?p=811</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Peace in Northern Ireland is arguably New Labour's greatest achievement. Yet, despite his crucial role in bringing it about, Paul Murphy has been twice reshuffled out of Government. Does that say more about the man, or his party?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>We have the expertise &#8211; let&#8217;s use it</title>
		<link>http://waleshome.org/2009/04/we-have-the-expertise-lets-use-it/</link>
		<comments>http://waleshome.org/2009/04/we-have-the-expertise-lets-use-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan Higgitt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Postcard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northern Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radical Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thirty years in civil conflict in Northern Ireland has given the British state vital expertise in addressing the spread of radical Islam, so why is the government reluctant to make reconciliation part of its strategy?]]></description>
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