Saturday 8th. March Twenty five years ago, in 2000, Brian O’Driscoll burst onto the scene to score a hat trick against France ...

Former British Prime Minister Theresa May was in Belfast earlier this week where she addressed the Literific society at Queen ...

Andy Pollak’s latest excellent and thought provoking offering, Beyond Borders: Building an All-Ireland Forum on Shared Values…, generated the usual animated debate with many of the 565 comments ...

You can now watch back Friday evening’s panel discussion at Look North: The North Belfast Festival. Slugger’s David McCann was in conversation with two retired politicians. Noreen McClelland was an ...

The recent discussions regarding reunification, which have increased in the aftermath of recent polling showing a narrowing gap between those in favour of reunification and those in favour of the ...

So finally, after at least one false start last Monday when the Alliance Agriculture minister noted that none of the Executive ministers with portfolios had seen any of the thousands of consultation ...

Last week I listened to former West Belfast elected representative Máirtín Ó Muilleoir give a sterling defence of West Belfast on Radio Ulster’s Nolan Show, (available here): on the decision to put a ...

President Trump’s closing, dismissive, argument to President Zelenskyy is that “you don’t have the cards” to play the tough guy with Putin. Only with America’s help can the Ukraine continue to resist ...

On Thursday (27 February), Executive Ministers signed off on the finalised Programme for Government. The document sets out the Executive’s immediate priorities for the remainder of the current mandate ...

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.

So finally, after at least one false start last Monday when the Alliance Agriculture minister noted that none of the Executive ministers with portfolios had seen any of the thousands of consultation ...