Previous Issues

Here, you can find links to our previous issues from 2021-22.

• Issue 1, 16/09/21 – 29/09/21: https://thegownqub.com/issue-no-1-16-09-21-29-09-21/
• Issue 2, 30/09/21 – 13/10/21: https://thegownqub.com/issue-no-2-30-09-21-13-10-21/
• Issue 3, 14/10/21 – 27/10/21: https://thegownqub.com/issue-no-3/
• Issue 4, 28/10/21 – 10/11/21: https://thegownqub.com/issue4/
• Issue 5, 11/11/21 – 24/11/21: https://thegownqub.com/issue-no-5-11-11-21-24-11-21/
• Issue 6, 25/11/21 – 08/12/21: https://thegownqub.com/issue-no-6-25-11-21-8-12-21/
• Issue 7, 09/12/21 – 31/12/21: https://thegownqub.com/issue-no-7-09-12-21-31-12-21/
• Issue 8, 13/01/22 – 26/01/22: https://thegownqub.com/?page_id=20903
• Issue 9, 27/01/22 – 10/02/22: https://thegownqub.com/issue-no-9-27-01-22-10-02-22/

• #LE23 Looking Back, Looking Forward: Diary Entry 1 – Karl Duncan SDLP Youth.May 16, 2022
   A warm, sunny Monday afternoon sets the scene for the first post-election conversation with a party activist. Karl Duncan (as Chair of SDLP Youth) kindly accepted to be the first person under the spotlight in the COSTA coffee shop at Wellington Place. I asked the busy man how he felt the SDLP campaign had goneContinue reading “#LE23 Looking Back, Looking Forward: Diary Entry 1 – Karl Duncan SDLP Youth.”
• REVIEW – Fontaines D.C.’s “Skinty Fia”May 13, 2022
  Alexandra Rosbotham reviews Irish band Fontaines D.C.’s newest album “Skinty Fia”
• The Writing is on the Wall – The Good Friday Agreement is a Busted FlushMay 9, 2022
  Garrett Byrne writes on the political situation in Northern Ireland, discussing the Good Friday Agreement and last weeks elections.
• Predict the election result?May 5, 2022
  By Edward Ferrin Chief Stormont Correspondent Voting will have finished at 10pm and usually in Great Britain, the TV channels and pundits will have released their exit poll. Then after the first few results overnight, we would see a “mock” swingometer reading by Jeremy Vine or another BBC analyst sitting alongside Sir. John Curtice ofContinue reading “Predict the election result?”
• Constituency to watch in the race for Stormont – Belfast North!May 3, 2022
  By Edward Ferrin – Chief Stormont Correspondent.  As election day draws nearer, the political parties and the candidates are gearing up for the last push to the polls. North Belfast is one area where voters will have an exciting prospect if they enjoy watching drama unfold on election nights, with local Sinn Fein MP JohnContinue reading “Constituency to watch in the race for Stormont – Belfast North!”
• Should I stay or should I go now?April 29, 2022
  David Irvine runs the rule over Boris Johnson throughout the pandemic
• Elizabeth Holmes: The Boss girl of Fraud!April 11, 2022
  In the pass month, “The Dropout”, a series about the rise and fall of the tech start up company Theranos, dropped onto Disney Plus, but this article is not a review of that series, instead this article is a review of the actual case and lessons it could teach us about unfretted capitalism. In caseContinue reading “Elizabeth Holmes: The Boss girl of Fraud!”
• 30 years on…the lessons of the 1992 General Election!April 9, 2022
  2022 is slightly different to what happened 30 years ago. There is no general election to Westminster, keeping at least (on paper) another two years of Boris Johnson as Prime Minister. Yet, Northern Ireland goes to the polls on May 5th, France votes for its next President this month and Australia votes a week afterContinue reading “30 years on…the lessons of the 1992 General Election!”
• ‘Don’t Say Gay’. The Controversial Florida Bill and What’s Next In The Debate of LGBT+ RightsApril 8, 2022
  International Affairs Editor, Eleanor Fletcher reports on the passing of the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill in Florida.
• A Retreat from the ‘Continental Approach’: The International Legal Implications of the UK Human Rights Act’s RepealApril 4, 2022
  Peter Donnelly writes on the international legal implication of the UK’s repeal of the Human Rights Act.
• FEATURE: THE WARS WITHIN THE WARMarch 29, 2022
  First-time Contributor, Murchana Kaushik, in her own sensitive style, dissects the wars within the war continuing between Russia and Ukraine. “The underlying idea reflected in all of these is the dichotomy of “us versus them”. Who is considered superior juxtaposed against those deemed inferior”
• Irresponsible wildfires threaten the fabric of NI’s nature sceneMarch 28, 2022
  Deputy & Environmental Editor, Fleur Howe, reports on the detrimental and reckless gorse fires which damaged the Mourne Mountains and Cavehill