I was chatting with someone a while back whose daughter is a GP. She told me that her daughter and the other GP partners were ...

John Gray’s address to those attending Reclaim the Enlightenment’s celebration of Bastille Day may be of interest. On the ...

As a reluctant and begrudging, Lions fan, I felt my reluctance and begrudgery giving way when 15 Irish players were included ...

Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald popped up on ‘Good Morning Britain’ to make her case to the English, Scottish and Welsh ...

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

I served as an elected representative — the sole SDLP councillor in a chamber dominated by Unionism. I stood firm in my ...

I have some sympathy for Australian golfer Jason Day. After battling the conditions at The Open in Portrush, he remarked: The weather here … it’s the craziest weather pattern I’ve ever experienced in ...

After the IRA ceasefire of 1994 the then leader of unionism, James Molyneaux described this as one of the most “destabilising ...

I’ve written before about moving away from the conservative Christianity and unionism of my upbringing, a gradual, personal ...

PillinPillin are Slugger readers living in Spain My Grandfather was a Private in the Royal Irish Fusiliers. He fought at ...

As regular readers might know, I’m on an online news and social media break over the summer. I’ve found that reading a paper ...

One of the recurring themes of this blog is that the people and politicians of the Republic are utterly unprepared for the ...