Two weeks ago, in a comment on my post here on the second round of the Six Nations and on Facebook, I suggested that Simon ...

This will be the first of many shattering weeks in 2025. Even the cleverest members of the establishment that is being routed ...

Depth” article on the BBC website on a Sunday morning in January. I soon realized this was the entrance to a rabbit-hole, ...

PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher expressed concern at the low number of Catholic applicants to the PSNI. As this report from ...

Today, the Irish News reports that the world’s largest celebration of Irish music, the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, is coming ...

I sent the letter below to the editors of the Irish Times, Independent, News, Examiner and Belfast Telegraph. It is a little ...

Will Donald Trump bring peace or will be just give the Russians what they want? Either way, European leaders and, most ...

I hear two contradictory claims about Donald Trump. One view says that most of extreme comments are just rhetoric, that he ...

When you grow up and live in a country for long enough, you get to take many aspects of life there for granted. They are the universal normal as far as you are concerned. Of course, when you travel to ...

There are two things that can be said about the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. The first thing is that it has worked out better than we all thought. The second is that it has worked out worse than we ...

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 ...