This week we are looking at politics in Northern Ireland, in the wake of last week's Assembly elections. Can power-sharing government return? And what are the implications for Northern Ireland’s future? The power-sharing arrangements established by the 1998 Belfast or Good Friday Agreement have brought many successes, but they are teetering on the edge of collapse. So how can power-sharing be put back on a stable footing?
In this episode, Professor Alan Renwick is joined by Senior Research Associate Alan Whysall, and Professor Etain Tannam, Associate Professor of International Peace Studies at Trinity College Dublin to discuss the implications of the Assembly elections for the future of power-sharing and the institutional arrangements in Northern Ireland.
Read further about these themes in Alan Whysall's discussion paper on the future of the institutions and blogpost on challenges after the elections, and Etain Tannam's blogpost on the existing institutions under the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.