I sent the letter below to the editors of the Irish Times, Independent, News, Examiner and Belfast Telegraph. It is a little ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I confess to being a big fan of the Netherlands. Their pragmatic nature appeals to me—things just seem to work there. You arrive at Schiphol airport, and there is a train station in the actual airport ...

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 ...

President Trump’s latest Executive order is, for me, the straw that broke the camel’s back. I actually thought it was a meme when it started doing the rounds on social media; an ironic, tongue in ...

In the halls of Stormont and across local government, words like “reform,” “transformation,” and “efficiency” are tossed about with alarming frequency when it comes to the future of our Health Service ...