For those of us who have spent decades in the private sector, watching the financial mismanagement within the Northern ...

How persuadable people think seems to form a bit of a blind spot for those to whom it should matter most – people who are ...

The North and South series is a collaboration between The Irish Times and ARINS (Analysing and Researching Ireland North and ...

The idea for Open Sunday is to let you discuss what you like. Just two rules. Keep it civil and no man/woman playing.

I was enthusiastic about the new technology, but one person in my class who was employed as a typesetter in a local newspaper ...

An acrimonious debate at Belfast City Council which has been running for several weeks finally climaxed on Monday night as ...

Between 1969 and 2001 3,532 people died during the troubles. During the same period 7291 died on the roads. The Troubles are ...

Sinn Féin unveils significant Assembly team reshuffle  On Monday (3 February) Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald TD was in ...

Micheál Martin (a day later than scheduled because of some stormy weather in the Dáil) the man who many pundits once ...

Last week on the same day I was involved in two very interesting conversations about the way forward for this island. I had lunch with a young Belfast-born, Dublin-resident solicitor called Ross Neill ...

News that Belfast City Council has approved a planning application for a private hospital comes at a time when delays ...

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 ...