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 ...

Vienna found itself separated from its larger neighbour, Germany, in the years leading up to World War ll, despite being both culturally and geographically close. It also shared its most infamous son, ...

After a brief reprieve resulting from stabilisation funding, internal NICS efficiency drives and a fairly generous recent UK Budget allocation, Northern Ireland’s public finances are once again on an ...

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, finally lost what little vestiges of his former royal life he had kept up until this point last night. According to the BBC news report “Prince ...

Jodie Carson is a Professor of Strategic Policy in Practice at Ulster University After a brief reprieve resulting from stabilisation funding, internal NICS efficiency drives and a fairly generous ...

Back in June, when it was revealed that Reform UK were actively considering the possibility of setting up branches in Northern Ireland in order to contest elections, many scoffed. On Monday the ...

Conor Shiels with the Irish News reports that Education Minister Paul Givan has stepped in to save an Irish Language scheme that was under threat of being axed. “The Irish language schools scheme was ...

At a recent Assembly Committee Sinn Féin’s Pat Sheehan, asked ‘if one of the major parties were to walk — if they were to leave the Executive and the Assembly — could the institutions survive with any ...

For three of the four Executive parties the misery continues – with the UUP the only one escaping the consequence of belonging to an Executive which gives its members no power to deliver but only to ...

Matthew Taylor is a local 23 year mental health campaigner from Belfast. In 2023, 221 people took their own lives in Northern Ireland. I almost became one of them. Admitted to a psychiatric ward from ...

For some people, it is hard to think about Irish unification without thinking about bloodshed. As Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride acknowledge in the introduction of For and Against a United Ireland, ...

When I served as a councillor, I was often contacted by families in rural areas desperate for help securing domiciliary care for elderly relatives. These were not people seeking special treatment — ...