The air in the carriage was hot and humid as we trundled through Dublin’s north-west suburbs. A miasma of sunburnt football supporters, dazed faces, in surround sound. I was on an Irish Rail service ...

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On Nolan on Friday we discussed Colum Eastwood’s claim that as an MP he often found it easier to get things done when ...

O what has made that sudden noise? What on the threshold stands? It never crossed the sea because John Bull and the sea are ...

Scrolling through social media before bedtime, I saw it on my feed. “None in, all out” stamped boldly across a photo of ...

Hannah McVeigh from Tyrone and is studying International Relations and Global Development Ties between Northern Ireland and ...

DeBeer is a one-off essay writer with influences from all over Northern Ireland and slightly beyond…’Aye one-off all ...

Some of you will know that away from the grind of current affairs, I’m also a parkrun run director. For those who haven’t ...

Janan Ganesh in the FT writes about the downsides of our democratic system, and why it’s so hard to get anything done: In ...

The combined support for the four Executive parties continues to slip. It is now 13% lower than when the Executive was ...

Whilst some of us may trace all of our little island’s problems and disagreements back to our perfidious neighbour – that ...

FiFi Garrett is a politically savvy Essex native now rooted in rural Northern Ireland, living just outside Derry-Londonderry.