I don’t like zoos. I think they’re cruel to animals, plain and simple. I remember visiting Belfast Zoo when I was a kid and watching an elephant bang his head repeatedly against the wall, clearly ...

The verdict isn’t the calamity which gloomier searchers for truth and other investigators may fear. It will have a limited effect. Media managers and their journalists must hold their nerve. In an ...

Late last week, we heard that the SDLP were putting a motion before the Assembly to call for a border poll. Looking at the order paper for Monday, I see the following motion tabled by the Leader of ...

Fionnuala FAGAN-THIÉBOT, Irene BOADA-MONTAGUT, Liam O'HARE, Fiona MAGOWAN, Louise HARRINGTON, David ROBINSON, Niall KERR, Hilary COPELAND, Stefanie LEHNER, and Nisha TANDON. Symposium: "Creativity in ...

A return-to-office policy for the civil service would not be possible because there is no longer enough space to accommodate everyone, Stormont assembly members have been told. Many civil servants ...

A recent Slugger OP argued for increasing the number of elected political members on the boards of our public bodies. Instead, I propose abolishing this outdated aspect of post-conflict governance.

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 ...

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.

A total reset of the healthcare system in Northern Ireland is needed to avoid a year-on-year funding deficit of hundreds of millions of pounds, the new permanent secretary of the Department of Health ...

Former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has won a defamation case against the BBC. Mr Adams claimed he was defamed in a 2016 Spotlight programme and a subsequent online article, which he said falsely ...

According to recent research, 80% of people without a disability in Northern Ireland are in work, compared to 36% of disabled people (Ulster University’s Economic Policy Centre, 2022). I experienced a ...

Slugger’s energetic commissioner asked me to post about what I do all day. Who would be in the slightest interested in such quotidian ennui, I replied. We need to understand how each part of the ...