TE Lawrence is a Slugger regular from  Belfast I have penned a few words regarding the Apprentice Boys of Derry from an Inner ...

I confess to being a big fan of the Netherlands. Their pragmatic nature appeals to me—things just seem to work there. You arrive at Schiphol airport, and there is a train station in the actual airport ...

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 ...

An acrimonious debate at Belfast City Council which has been running for several weeks finally climaxed on Monday night as ...

Between 1969 and 2001 3,532 people died during the troubles. During the same period 7291 died on the roads. The Troubles are ...

Micheál Martin (a day later than scheduled because of some stormy weather in the Dáil) the man who many pundits once ...

Finance Minister confirms rise in regional rate Responding to an  Assembly written question  this week, Finance Minister John O’Dowd MLA confirmed that the Executive has now formally agreed his ...

The North and South series is a collaboration between The Irish Times and ARINS (Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South), a joint research project of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) and the ...

News that Belfast City Council has approved a planning application for a private hospital comes at a time when delays ...

For five years, the Independent Financial Review Panel (IFRP) set wages and expenses for politicians in the assembly. But the ...

On Monday (3 February) Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald TD was in Parliament Buildings to announce a significant reshuffle of the party’s front bench at Stormont. The move followed confirmation ...

Last week on the same day I was involved in two very interesting conversations about the way forward for this island. I had lunch with a young Belfast-born, Dublin-resident solicitor called Ross Neill ...