Communities Minister Gordon Lyons failed to consider testimony that the majority of pubs in Northern Ireland are “Catholic-owned” ahead of largely rejecting reforms of the licensing system, it is ...

GMT this afternoon Mandelson was seen being led away by plain clothes police officersand put into the back of an unmarked car In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said a 72-year-old man was ...

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'NeillI help to manage Slugger by ...

It is said that Vladimir Putin and the Russian military expected that their task in Ukraine would be a relatively straightforward one. A rapid thrust to Kyiv, the removal and likely assassination of ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has found that President Trump does not have the power to unilaterally impose tariffs on imported goods as he wishes. The dispute centred around Trump’s interpretation of a 1977 ...

Stormont MLAs could receive a 27% pay rise under a proposal from a new independent pay body. The Independent Remuneration Board has made a determination to increase annual salaries for the politicians ...

We all know that social media is harmful. Many of us have encountered trolls or content we did not want to read or see online ...

Do the events of 250 years ago, such as the American Declaration of Independence, have any relevance to life in N. Ireland today?  Let’s hope so, because the DUP Minister, Gordon Lyons, has decided to ...

Order 2006 requires that any core religious education (RE) syllabus be prepared by a drafting group of ‘persons having an ...

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I read that UUP leader Jon Burrows has recently been flaunting his hard man credentials by suggesting that Ireland should apologise for ‘unjustifiable conduct’ during the decades of violence in the ...

Plans to establish an independent environmental protection agency in Northern Ireland have fallen through after the DUP ...