John Manley, writing in today’s Irish News (the article is paywalled but if you are subscribed it is a recommended read) ...

It’s not an original thought to observe that many people in Northern Ireland are still obsessed – haunted even – by the ...

In many quarters, there will be a warm welcome to this week’s announcement by Health Minister Mike Nesbitt to set up a ...

I read the new Pivotal report on young people and the breaking down of barriers in the North, which concludes: “Northern Ireland’s young people remain keenly aware of the divisions in local society ...

The principles underpinning gravity are fairly easy to grasp. The more massive something is, the greater the pull it has on objects within its proximity. The bigger the object, the greater the pull, ...

The older I get, the more my inner Presbyterian asserts itself — and nowhere more so than in my loathing of gambling.Of all the addictions, gambling might just be the most ruinous. You can drink ...

The idea for Open Sunday is to let you discuss what you like. Just two rules. Keep it civil and no man/woman playing.

The recent BBC Panorama programme “Special Forces – I Saw War Crimes” was quite shocking, but to many here in the North, totally unsurprising. It was a testimony of some former British Special Forces ...

My buddy and I were in the gallery waiting for AC/DC to take the stage. When the big moment came we were hit with an absolute blast bomb of sound. Angus and the lads were SO loud that our stomachs ...

Veteran journalist Chris Moore has a new book out on Kincora – Kincora: Britain’s Shame, Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up. From Suzanne Breen in the ...

On Thursday (15 May), the Executive agreed on a draft Anti-Poverty Strategy, BBC News reports. Communities Minister Gordon Lyons submitted a draft paper on the strategy to ministers six weeks ago, ...

The local environment may have taken a blow yesterday when mineral prospecting licenses were awarded to four companies by the Department of the Economy (fronted by Sinn Féin’s Caoimhe Archibald). As ...