Whether or not the individual had been listening to the politicians or reading social media comments which flowed from the ...

The Tragic Shadow Cast by the Troubles on the Lives of Women,’ and today’s papers are full of choice extracts. Here is a ...

A new report written by Prof. Jodie Carson and Prof. Stephen Farry calls for a ‘multi-faceted policy approach to public ...

There are two things that can be said about the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. The first thing is that it has worked out better than we all thought. The second is that it has worked out worse than we ...

In addition to our normal open Sunday, we have a politics-free post to give you all a break. So discuss what you like here, but no politics.

I have penned a few words regarding the Apprentice Boys of Derry from an Inner City Belfast Loyalist Perspective. They are probably the least well known of the Loyal Orders in the public domain. The ...

Responding to an Assembly written question this week, Finance Minister John O’Dowd MLA confirmed that the Executive has now formally agreed his proposals to raise the regional rate for 2025/26 as set ...

I help to manage Slugger by taking care of the site as well as running our live events. My background is in business, marketing and IT. My politics tend towards middle-of-the-road pragmatism, I am not ...

Donna Moore is from Belfast, and works as an administrator. It’s a sad fact that Northern Ireland is now being pointed to as a warning on what happens when the wrong legislation is adopted regarding ...

When you grow up and live in a country for long enough, you get to take many aspects of life there for granted. They are the universal normal as far as you are concerned. Of course, when you travel to ...

There’s definitely a change in the air when it comes to the future of Northern Irish politics. Eighteen years the Executive and the power sharing Assembly has achieved a genuinely deepening peace, and ...

How persuadable people think seems to form a bit of a blind spot for those to whom it should matter most – people who are apparently invested in trying to keep NI in the UK and those who are set on ...