Much has been made of the phrase toxic masculinity in recent years. Examples abound in the news, the streets, behind closed ...

What you need to know SDLP warn that failure to agree Budget could cut public spending by almost £1 billion On Monday (22 ...

Jack Russell is the author of the believethedata.org blog, where this article was originally published. Northern Ireland has ...

It must be twenty years ago now. My parents were in their mid-seventies so I took them holiday to France for a week while they were still healthy and mobile enough to do so. I rented a gite in St ...

Back in January, Sinn Féin minister John O’Dowd put his proposed three-year budget out for consultation. His statement on the consultation highlighted what he saw as a key issue in terms of the ...

Patrick Harkness asks what if we reverse the NILT question on the constitutional question and keep the format identical? He explores how question framing sets the political weather in Northern Ireland ...

The economic cost of failing to invest in Northern Ireland’s future is becoming increasingly apparent. A new Ulster University Strategic Policy Unit report, Unlocking NI’s Potential: A Framework for ...

Croatia. I was 20 minutes late, having popped into Lidl for cat litter on the way to the pub; meanwhile, Harry Kane was purring for England, having put his country 1-0 up. My heart sank upon entering ...

Last time I met Garret FitzGerald was in Dublin airport. He was on his way to London, but when I asked him what for, his guard came up and he deftly waved the conversation onto other things. A ...

“Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.” Margaret Mead’s maxim comes to mind, “never doubt that a small group of ...

The jury has made its decision in the Jeffrey Donaldson trial and they have found him guilty of all 18 sex abuse charges, including one charge of rape. His wife, Lady Eleanor Donaldson, who faced five ...

Managing Editor of Slugger O’Toole. 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 ...