FOR AND AGAINST A UNITED IRELAND by Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride, Royal Irish Academy, 170 pp, £18, 20th October ISBN 9781802050356 THESE DIVIDED ISLES: BRITAIN AND IRELAND PAST AND FUTURE by Philip ...

The New York mayoral election is proving to be unusually lively, even by that city’s standards. Zohran Mamdani appears poised to become its first Muslim mayor, a milestone that has both delighted and ...

In recent weeks, health and social care workers in Northern Ireland have again been warned by union leaders that they will soon be voting on whether to take industrial action. After years of pay ...

As we edge closer to the no-confidence vote in the Assembly in Education Minister Paul Givan over his recent controversial visit to Israel and the Occupied Territories, the minister himself put in a ...

In the wake of Catherine Connolly being elected as Uachtarán na hÉireann, there’s been a fair bit of discussion regarding ‘reconciliation’ again. As I write this, I also note that it’s mentioned a ...

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 ...

Seamus Leheny is the Chief Executive of the Northern Ireland Federation of Housing Associations. I can still just about remember learning about Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs back in school. It’s a ...

When schools serve pluralist majorities but remain governed by sectarian minorities, integration becomes segregation by other means. A follow-up analysis to ‘Take Down the Hurdles: Three Barriers to ...

Vienna found itself separated from its larger neighbour, Germany, in the years leading up to World War ll, despite being both culturally and geographically close. It also shared its most infamous son, ...

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.

For three of the four Executive parties the misery continues – with the UUP the only one escaping the consequence of belonging to an Executive which gives its members no power to deliver but only to ...

I have a buddy who belongs to the Old Banger Brigade. He is a man who has lived his entire life driving cars which typically cost *hundreds* of pounds. I kind of envy him because I would like to do ...