Helen Armstrong lives in the North West and is a psychotherapist, executive coach and trainer. Well, here I go again on the ...
Seven months into the year, Stormont still has no budget, and this time there is no collapse to blame. Ministers are sitting and a £1.5bn offer is on the table, but the Finance Minister has made more ...
Seven months into the year, Stormont still has no budget, and this time there is no collapse to blame. Ministers are sitting and a £1.5bn offer is on the table, but the Finance Minister has made more ...
I’ll be exceptionally blunt in this post (some may be pleased to hear). Carla Lockhart and now Diane Forsythe want Michelle O’Neill removed as First Minister. Whilst unionist anger over Drumcree is ...
The first survey of opinion on Drumcree has been published by polling organisation More In Common in an extensive report. To a large extent the results will not provoke much surprise. In general, the ...
The Royal Irish Academy’ s Dictionary of Irish Biography has just published its entry for Maurice Hayes. in my book Maurice was a principal hero of the Troubles, the very model for adapting a Catholic ...
Last week, there was a ‘Dallas’ joke. This week, a ‘Derry Girls’ joke. However ‘Blue Lights’ remained no laughing matter as the show reached the penultimate episode of its fourth series. Before we get ...
Fellow Slugger poster Hughie Beag and I have crossed swords a few times in the comments section, particularly over my attempts to understand unionism and his challenges to how I’ve approached it.
In 1988, a Moscow paper called Nagorno-Karabakh “our Northern Ireland.” In Part III, Peter Emerson asks why “this or that?” questions divide us, from Belfast to the Balkans, and makes the case for ...
While the unionist parties may be trying out a new game at Stormont portraying restraint as strength rather than weakness, what is the temper of the times among the people? Will something far worse ...
While the unionist parties may be trying out a new game at Stormont portraying restraint as strength rather than weakness, what is the temper of the times among the people? Will something far worse ...
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.
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