The human mind is incapable of rest, what it needs is change” -Winston Churchill There’s definitely a change in the air when ...

President Trump’s latest Executive order is, for me, the straw that broke the camel’s back. I actually thought it was a meme when it started doing the rounds on social media; an ironic, tongue in ...

How persuadable people think seems to form a bit of a blind spot for those to whom it should matter most – people who are ...

For those of us who have spent decades in the private sector, watching the financial mismanagement within the Northern ...

The North and South series is a collaboration between The Irish Times and ARINS (Analysing and Researching Ireland North and ...

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 ...

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.

Back in 1986 I was teaching a night class in Desktop Publishing (the use of computers to typeset newspapers or magazines). I was enthusiastic about the new technology, but one person in my class who ...

On Monday (3 February) Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald TD was in Parliament Buildings to announce a significant reshuffle of the party’s front bench at Stormont. The move followed confirmation ...

Head Coach Simon Easterby has made three changes to the team for the Scotland match. Peter O’Mahony replaces Ryan Baird at 6, with Baird displacing |Iain Henderson on the bench, while Henshaw rotates ...