DeBeer is a one-off essay writer with influences from all over Northern Ireland and slightly beyond…’Aye one-off all ...

Imagine the setting – a partly forested mountain stretching down to the sea, kilt clad adults ambling about the promenade while their kilt clad children mob the ice cream trucks on an ...

Janan Ganesh in the FT writes about the downsides of our democratic system, and why it’s so hard to get anything done: In ...

Vigilante Groups of (mainly) men are patrolling the Ravenhill and Ormeau areas at night, stopping ‘foreigners’ and asking ...

Slogger is a North Antrim retiree and latecomer to political discourse. I need to preface this wee article by stating that ...

For the past few weeks the moderator team has been reviewing our comment policies. The new guidelines have been developed ...

For the past fortnight I have been ashamed to be Irish. The savage beating and humiliation of an Indian IT worker – only ...

El Cavador is a Slugger reader from Belfast With the nights already drawing in (sorry about that!), it won’t be long before ...

Bonfires don’t play the same role in Republicanism that they do in the Loyalist and Unionist celebrations around the Twelfth. An earlier tradition of lighting bonfires to celebrate the Catholic feast ...

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey recently wrote an opinion piece in the Guardian arguing that Britain should strengthen its ties with ...

Andrew McClean is the Northern Ireland Advocacy Lead at Cycling UK All this week, both the media and social media have hailed ...

It has been nearly two hundred years since the Great Famine which saw one million people die, one million emigrate and which ...