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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Back in 1986 I was teaching a night class in Desktop Publishing (the use of computers to typeset newspapers or magazines). I was enthusiastic about the new technology, but one person in my class who ...

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 ...

Donna Moore is from Belfast, and works as an administrator. It’s a sad fact that Northern Ireland is now being pointed to as a warning on what happens when the wrong legislation is adopted regarding ...

Slugger O’Toole is an award winning news and opinion portal, which takes a critical look at various strands of political politics in Ireland and Britain. It tries to bring its readers ‘open source ...

I confess to being a big fan of the Netherlands. Their pragmatic nature appeals to me—things just seem to work there. You ...

The human mind is incapable of rest, what it needs is change” -Winston Churchill There’s definitely a change in the air when ...