This press release popped into my inbox and I am happy to give it a plug as I think gambling is a scourge on our society, ...

As we edge closer to the no-confidence vote in the Assembly in Education Minister Paul Givan over his recent controversial visit to Israel and the Occupied Territories, the minister himself put in a ...

Seamus Leheny is the Chief Executive of the Northern Ireland Federation of Housing Associations. I can still just about remember learning about Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs back in school. It’s a ...

In recent weeks, health and social care workers in Northern Ireland have again been warned by union leaders that they will soon be voting on whether to take industrial action. After years of pay ...

In the wake of Catherine Connolly being elected as Uachtarán na hÉireann, there’s been a fair bit of discussion regarding ‘reconciliation’ again. As I write this, I also note that it’s mentioned a ...

Seamus Leheny is the Chief Executive of the Northern Ireland Federation of Housing Associations. I can still just about remember learning about Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs back in school. It’s a ...

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 ...

When schools serve pluralist majorities but remain governed by sectarian minorities, integration becomes segregation by other means. A follow-up analysis to ‘Take Down the Hurdles: Three Barriers to ...

After a brief reprieve resulting from stabilisation funding, internal NICS efficiency drives and a fairly generous recent UK Budget allocation, Northern Ireland’s public finances are once again on an ...

Vienna found itself separated from its larger neighbour, Germany, in the years leading up to World War ll, despite being both culturally and geographically close. It also shared its most infamous son, ...

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.

This week’s Northern Ireland Affairs Committee hearing laid bare a troubling truth: the voluntary and community sector in Northern Ireland is teetering on the edge of a funding cliff, and ...