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 ...

Hannah McVeigh from Tyrone and is studying International Relations and Global Development Ties between Northern Ireland and Israel and Palestine have long been apparent. Many Unionists typically align ...

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 come across it, parkrun is a free, weekly 5k held all over the UK and Ireland.

Here you can post and discuss news stories, social media links, or whatever is on your mind. Slugger O'Toole A general account used for the daily threads and other things.

DeBeer is a one-off essay writer with influences from all over Northern Ireland and slightly beyond…’Aye one-off all right’…one-off until the next time… I did a double-take recently when I read that ...

The combined support for the four Executive parties continues to slip. It is now 13% lower than when the Executive was restored in February last year, according to the new LucidTalk poll in today’s ...

Need a break from the political noise? This thread is for anything *but* politics — books, hobbies, film recs, you name it. Slugger O'Toole A general account used for the daily threads and other ...

There have been few political meetings as relentlessly hyped as Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska yesterday, even though the White House had done its best in recent days ...

Imagine the setting – a partly forested mountain stretching down to the sea, kilt clad adults ambling about the promenade while their kilt clad children mob the ice cream trucks on an ...

It’s the weekend! Here you can post and discuss news stories, social media links, or whatever is on your mind. Slugger O'Toole A general account used for the daily threads and other things.

FiFi Garrett is a politically savvy Essex native now rooted in rural Northern Ireland, living just outside Derry-Londonderry. Visit her site. On Tuesday, I went to a Féile talk held at Holywell Trust ...