On 21st of November 2025, Stormont hosted the Disabled People’s Parliament. This is part of a series of people’s parliaments, ...
Eoghan Kelly is a postdoc on the University of Edinburgh’s Scottish Election Study and has lectured in Irish politics at Queen’s. Here, he uses his new election projection site to see how reform might ...
One of my political mentors used to say to me “We will have to go round the countryside shaking the hedges, trying to find some candidates” I had a fair idea what he meant, but more recently I have ...
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, but no politics.
Reunification will come, but not necessarily soon, and not by wishful thinking. The combined nationalist vote still sits at roughly forty per cent, with no credible plan to move it beyond fifty, in a ...
Fintan O’Toole is the nearest thing Ireland gets to a public intellectual: a writer of erudition and intellect who tackles the political and cultural issues of the day and of the nation through a ...
The latest series of talks at the Photo Museum Ireland featured an insightful lecture by Colin Graham, a professor of English and an accomplished author. The evening’s discussion centred around the ...
Finley is a Slugger reader from Belfast Axios just reported that Donald Trump proposes that the U.S. and other states ...
Tim Cairns is a Senior Policy Manager for CARE Northern Ireland has a gambling problem. Around 3% of people here, roughly 47,000 adults, are experiencing gambling harm. To put that in perspective, ...
The latest report from the ongoing Covid Inquiry will make awkward reading for those who had to make the big decisions during ...
What is really going on between the GPs and our Health Minister? For GPs to pass a motion of no-confidence in our Health ...
Over in the Irish News, Brian Feeney thinks our unloved Assembly is not long for this world. From his article: They need to ...