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

I remember being shocked at some of the responses to this post a few years ago – Schooldays, the most miserable days of your life?. The comments section turned into a kind of group therapy session, ...

The Kneecap controversy from a few weeks ago (which generated these two posts by Brian and Choyaa respectively if you need a refresher) may have slipped from the headlines, but the police ...

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Adam Curtis is this brilliantly oddball British documentary maker who’s made a name for himself by stitching together weird archive footage, moody music, and these sweeping, hypnotic voiceovers that ...

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 ...

Belfast-based litigation and media lawyer Olivia O’Kane said that with a case such as that taken by Mr Adams, “even getting to the door of the court alone could cost parties hundreds of thousands”.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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