Jamie Bryson is NI Director of Policy, Centre for the Union, a think tank focused on preserving all aspects of the United ...

A little over a month ago Unionist parties pulled the Stormont Brake to block new EU rules on the packaging and labeling of ...

Michelle O’Neill is saying turn that frown upside down. From the Irish News: Michelle O’Neill has defended the Stormont ...

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One of my former managers had a catchphrase “tolerance of ambiguity” to the effect that one of the qualities that characterised your potential to rise to senior management was the ability to tolerate ...

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 ...

December 2024 saw the 25 th anniversary of powers being devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly To mark this significant event, former Agriculture Committee Clerk Paul Moore has been recounting some ...

On Monday (13 January), First Minister Michelle O’Neill defended the NI Executive’s performance during its first year since restoration. Speaking alongside Sinn Féin Leader Mary Lou McDonald, Ms ...

The announcement on 15 January by World Monuments Fund (WMF) of its support for the rescue of the Assembly Rooms is a game changer! Amongst 25 heritage sites world-wide selected as part of the 2025 ...

A good exclusive from Connla Young in from the Irish News: An English career criminal has claimed he was recruited to murder five people on behalf of MI5 in the early days of the Troubles. The ...

President Donald Trump has just written to thank Irish Poet W. B. Yeats for his poem. The poem it appears was commissioned to mark President Trump’s second inauguration, January 20 th 2024.