Executive Ministers  signed off on the finalised Programme for Government. The document sets out the Executive’s immediate ...

President Trump’s closing, dismissive, argument to President Zelenskyy is that “ you don’t have the cards ” to play the tough ...

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'Neill I help to manage Slugger by ...

In 2008 and 2009, Slugger O’Toole has managed a set of awards designed to ‘catch people in public life being good’. It was intended as an antidote to the world-weary cynicism and negativity that often ...

I was in West Belfast last Wednesday.. The Falls Road. The main arterial road heading west out of the city centre. There are ...

All change in Irish Rugby There’s been a lot of rugby news in the media in the past week following on from the somewhat ...

I was at a business event. Tesla had a stall there, and being a geek, I wandered over to look at the cars. The salesguy ...

I’m just back from another visit to the lads at Modern Tyres—another puncture! This is my third in less than six months, ...

At a recent meeting – one of those now commonplace “hybrid” affairs where half the participants were in the room and the other half dialled in from home – I was reminded of something that many people ...

I have not heard the word ‘yearning’ used for some time. It usually means ‘a strong feeling of wishing for something, especially something that you cannot have or get easily’. This word cropped up in ...

Recent polls have shown that sixty percent of voters in both the North, and the Republic believe it is important for governments to be for the reunification of Ireland.There are two points that most ...