The North and South series is a collaboration between The Irish Times and ARINS (Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South), a joint research project of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) and the ...

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

I was enthusiastic about the new technology, but one person in my class who was employed as a typesetter in a local newspaper ...

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, ...

Sinn Féin unveils significant Assembly team reshuffle  On Monday (3 February) Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald TD was in ...

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 ...

For five years, the Independent Financial Review Panel (IFRP) set wages and expenses for politicians in the assembly. But the ...

News that Belfast City Council has approved a planning application for a private hospital comes at a time when delays ...

Between 1969 and 2001 3,532 people died during the troubles. During the same period 7291 died on the roads. The Troubles are ...

An acrimonious debate at Belfast City Council which has been running for several weeks finally climaxed on Monday night as ...

Last week on the same day I was involved in two very interesting conversations about the way forward for this island. I had lunch with a young Belfast-born, Dublin-resident solicitor called Ross Neill ...

Micheál Martin (a day later than scheduled because of some stormy weather in the Dáil) the man who many pundits once ...