This week’s Infrastructure debate in the Assembly was described to me as truly depressing. It was yet another lost ...

Were you taught about the Spartans in school history? Sparta was a small Greek state in 500BCE, situated in the south of ...

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 ...

Frank Schnittger is the author of Sovereignty 2040, a future history of how Irish re-unification might work out. He has worked in business in Dublin and London and, on a voluntary basis, for charities ...

According to this article from the BBC… “Northern Ireland’s population is projected to peak at 1.95m in 2033 before starting ...

In the 142 year history of the Home Nations, 5 Nations, and 6 Nations since 1883, no country has won the competition outright ...

A Reflection on Nicola Mallon’s Comments In a recent episode of The View, with interviewer Mark Carruthers, Ms Nicola Mallon, ...

I confess to no longer following UK politics or, frankly, the news in general. For the past year or two, I have been on a mission to quiet the 10,000 monkies in my head. I am concluding that most of ...

For many of us who are over 50, the idea of a career change comes with mixed emotions—excitement about new opportunities, ...

On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz (and the 2oth of my original post on the matter), here’s the moving ...

Kicking up a storm… A round of United Rugby Championship matches a week before the start of the 6 Nations with most of the ...

There has been a n irritating shortage of methylphenidate medicines used to treat ADHD as manufacturers struggle to satisfy ...