I don’t normally write in this blog about international affairs: about Donald Trump or Israel/Palestine or Ukraine. There are ...

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, ...

Paul Muldoon  the boy from the Moy ( I can still see the youth in him at 75), is probably the last living survivor of the  group of poets who were the best and brightest of the age of the Troubles.

The fallout from Drumcree continued to dominate at Stormont this week. Calls within the DUP for Michelle O’Neill’s removal grew louder, led by Carla Lockhart, who now looks set to leave the party ...

In breaking news this morning the Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, has announced a new government body to research the possible constitutional futures of the island of Ireland. It is expected to sit within ...

The Taoiseach’s new constitutional research body will examine three futures for the island: a unitary state, a devolved united Ireland and the status quo. Rather than staking everything on a border ...

Seven months into the financial year, Stormont still has no budget. That would be unthinkable anywhere else in these islands, and this time there is no collapsed Executive to blame. Ministers are ...

Helen Armstrong lives in the North West and is a psychotherapist, executive coach and trainer. Well, here I go again on the ...

Fellow Slugger poster Hughie Beag and I have crossed swords a few times in the comments section, particularly over my attempts to understand unionism and his challenges to how I’ve approached it.

Gadfly is a political geographer from Belfast with a particular interest in the relationship between democracy and the creation of more sustainable futures. Northern nationalists and republicans have ...