One of the recurring themes of this blog is that the people and politicians of the Republic are utterly unprepared for the ...

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On the mainland, Reform UK’s Rupert Lowe and Darren Grimes were fingering their screens furiously in irate response, while the usual suspects here were chiming in too. Singer Bobby Vylan and Drummer ...

The Parades Commission has once again ruled that the Orange Institution will be banned from parading along Garvaghy Road in 2025. This decision is hardly surprising—it marks the thirtieth consecutive ...

FiFi Garrett is a politically savvy Essex native now rooted in rural Northern Ireland, living just outside Derry-Londonderry. Visit her site. Over the last five years twenty seven women have lost ...

Originally from Fermanagh, Eoghan Kelly is a postdoc on University of Edinburgh’s Scottish Election Study and has lectured in Irish politics at Queen’s. Here he introduces a new election projection ...

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Something strange is happening in America. Presidents Obama and Biden both arrested and deported undocumented migrants and we expected Trump to increase the rate at which this happened. However, many ...

The Twelfth is a big deal around these parts, as you know. But it hit me the other day, I actually know very little about the actual Battle of the Boyne. In moments like this, I turn to a higher power ...