In celebration (if that’s the right word) of the 25th anniversary (last month) of powers being devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly, former Committee Clerk Paul Moore has been recounting some ...

The BBC is reporting that Education minister Paul Givan has turned down the request of Bangor Academy and Rathmore Primary (also in Bangor) to integrate in spite of the overwhelming support of local ...

A new article today from Sam McBride in ‘the Belfast Telegraph’ wherein he reveals that there have been ongoing talks ...

One of very few advantages of getting older is that you can look back and see patterns developing over decades, patterns that ...

If you were at the Slugger End of Year Review in December (and if you weren’t we hope you had a good excuse as you missed a ...

More signs of the end times as a DUP MP defends the Latin Mass. Traditionally, the DUP have been no fans of the Catholic ...

On the 2nd of December 2024, it was exactly 25 years since ‘the appointed day’ – the day when legislative powers and ...

I help to manage Slugger by taking care of the site as well as running our live events. My background is in business, ...

Sorcha Eastwood MP’s decision to vote against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024 (“The Bill”) holds potential future electoral risk for the Alliance Party. After successfully passing ...

Donna Moore is from Belfast, and works as an administrator. Gaye Dalton, a former sex worker and long-time sex worker rights activist, was kind enough to give some of her time up to discuss the ...

Younger readers won’t remember this but thirty years ago (yes, older readers, doesn’t time fly!) Allied Dunbar ran a TV ad where a middle-aged man finds a pregnancy test in the bathroom and ...

Many of us will be glad to see the back of 2024 and let’s hope 2025 will be better for us all. I will leave you with the ...