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 ...

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 ...

Each July my father made a choice not to erect a Union Jack outside our home, which was in a predominantly unionist area. This was out of respect to our neighbours, who were Catholic. However, this ...

The Irish exchequer recorded a record surplus of €12.8 Billion in 2024, helped in no small measure by a one off receipt of €11 Billion in tax arrears from Apple following a ruling of the European ...

As of 2022, NI’s Education Authority (EA) has an annual budget of £2.3 billion, employs around 44,000 staff, and delivers vital services to approximately 1,100 schools—from school meals and transport ...

Ah, Christmas, a time of tradition. Carol services, Slade on the radio, stressed shoppers in M&S and the BBC’s Marie-Louise Connolly standing in a hospital A&E unit expressing grave concern as ...

We probably should have suspected something was up when Nick Clegg resigned from Meta as head of global affairs and was replaced with conservative-leaning Joel Kaplan. What it portended was revealed ...

Sinn Féin Economy Minister Conor Murphy announced on Monday (30 December) that he will run for election to Seanad Éireann (Senate of Ireland). The Seanad is the upper house of the Irish parliament, ...

The sheen has rubbed off the Prince Charming of international politics with predictions that he will resign today. From the Guardian: The Globe and Mail newspaper cited three sources as saying that ...

The idea for Open Sunday is to let you discuss what you like. Just two rules. Keep it civil and no man/woman playing. Comments will close at 12 pm on Monday. Brian O'Neill I help to manage Slugger by ...