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

Karl Marx and Winston Churchill would have had very little in common overall but both seem to have shared similar views on the cyclical nature of history. Whereas Marx famously said ‘History repeats ...

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

I’ve written before about moving away from the conservative Christianity and unionism of my upbringing, a gradual, personal shift that took shape during the decade I spent living and working in Dublin ...

After the IRA ceasefire of 1994 the then leader of unionism, James Molyneaux described this as one of the most “destabilising events since partition”. I was surprised and disappointed by the statement ...

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 newspaper is a good compromise—it keeps me informed without the internet’s ...

Finley is a Slugger reader from Belfast Every year on July 12th, parts of Northern Ireland erupt into bonfires, parades, and ...