Celine McStravick is the CEO NICVA This week’s Northern Ireland Affairs Committee hearing laid bare a troubling truth: the ...

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, finally lost what little vestiges of his former royal life he had kept up ...

They are very rich and powerful, so they must be very intelligent,” goes the logic and it seems credible. After all, would ...

Conor Shiels with the Irish News reports that Education Minister Paul Givan has stepped in to save an Irish Language scheme that was under threat of being axed. “The Irish language schools scheme was ...

For some people, it is hard to think about Irish unification without thinking about bloodshed. As Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride acknowledge in the introduction of For and Against a United Ireland, ...

For three of the four Executive parties the misery continues – with the UUP the only one escaping the consequence of belonging to an Executive which gives its members no power to deliver but only to ...

After a dip in form over the past two weeks, could Series 3 of ‘Blue Lights’ get back on track in the final stretch? Before we find out, here’s another public service announcement for Slugger readers.

Seán Patrick Donlan is a Professor of Law at Thompson Rivers University (Canada). He formerly taught Irish law at the University of Limerick and has published on comparative legal history, as well as ...

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I have always had an immense reverence for the role of President, seeing in it the triumph of the Irish system of government as one of the best ways of running a proper democracy. Better than the ...

It’s that time of the year once again when we all got an extra hour in bed as the clocks fell back (I hope everyone is well rested). We pay for it in the Spring of course when the clocks move forward ...

What if? is a powerful question. In a time of myriad health, climate, ecological and social crises it can provide hope, facilitate collaboration, provide the foundations of a new story that we can ...