A Freedom of Information request obtained by The Irish News shows that Catholics made up 26.8% of new recruits in 2021 and 21 ...

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 ...

On Tuesday (17 June), Communities Minister Gordon Lyons MLA published the draft Anti-Poverty Strategy 2025-2035, 17 years after the Executive first committed to introducing a strategy. Speaking in the ...

With President Higgins term in office drawing to a close, people have been looking ahead to the election for his successor which must take place by the 11th of November of this year. After months of ...

As the manager of the Lough Neagh Partnership, I attended the Nutrient Action Plan (NAP) debate in Stormont and what I witnessed was unfortunately hugely disappointing and, if I am honest, a bit ...

More madness from across the water. From the New York Times: The Trump administration plans to reconsider a ban on the last type of asbestos still used in the United States, according to a court ...

From today’s Irish News: ‌Professor Peter Shirlow, the Director at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies told The Irish News that the one form of hate is now being replaced with ...

From Suzanne Breen in the BelTel: Reform UK is exploring the possibility of organising in Northern Ireland, where it has more than 1,000 members. The party told the Belfast Telegraph it was “gauging ...

In today’s BelTel, Suzanne Breen has an exclusive that DUP local councillors are not happy campers. From the article: DUP councillors are at loggerheads with the leadership whom they accuse of ...

Slogger is a North Antrim retiree and latecomer to political discourse. As I’m a total curmudgeon, this article could be part one of a series of Room 101 rants about the things that bug me the most.

In 2023, satellite imagery confirmed what communities around Lough Neagh had long feared: the largest freshwater lake in these islands was being slowly choked by blue-green algae blooms. The cause?

Eliza McKEE, Caoili O'DOHERTY, Kate MANNING, Sam McBRIDE, Nicholas COLE, and Ruth MURRAY. Using Archives for Reconciliation: A Dialogue. Event hosted by Quill Project ...