Sinn Féin, the main opposition party, said the commemoration was offensive because it would honour William the Conqueror, ...

I read the new Pivotal report on young people and the breaking down of barriers in the North, which concludes: “Northern Ireland’s young people remain keenly aware of the divisions in local society ...

My buddy and I were in the gallery waiting for AC/DC to take the stage. When the big moment came we were hit with an absolute blast bomb of sound. Angus and the lads were SO loud that our stomachs ...

The principles underpinning gravity are fairly easy to grasp. The more massive something is, the greater the pull it has on objects within its proximity. The bigger the object, the greater the pull, ...

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 ...

The older I get, the more my inner Presbyterian asserts itself — and nowhere more so than in my loathing of gambling.Of all the addictions, gambling might just be the most ruinous. You can drink ...

The recent BBC Panorama programme “Special Forces – I Saw War Crimes” was quite shocking, but to many here in the North, totally unsurprising. It was a testimony of some former British Special Forces ...

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In many quarters, there will be a warm welcome to this week’s announcement by Health Minister Mike Nesbitt to set up a ...

John Manley, writing in today’s Irish News (the article is paywalled but if you are subscribed it is a recommended read) ...

I remember being shocked at some of the responses to this post a few years ago – Schooldays, the most miserable days of your ...