Last week saw the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the military dictator ‘El Caudillo’ Francisco ‘Paco’ Franco, who reigned over an actual military dictatorship for almost 40 years and the ...
DUP MLA for South Antrim Trevor Clarke took to his Facebook page with the following post: I nearly fell off my chair this morning when I heard on the Nolan Show that the Alliance Party’s Chair of the ...
The last episode (released on Thursday) sparked a pleasingly positive response from the Slugger Community, if not exactly breaking all records in terms of a ton readership. It seems we struck a nerve.
Speculation is growing that Mike Nesbitt will step down as UUP party leader sometime in the new year. This reflects comments he made over the summer … “He told the media on Monday that he would make a ...
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 ...
Stormont is a very peculiar institution. In the same week that the Finance Minister, John O’Dowd called for additional tax revenue raising powers to back fill another financial black hole in Stormont, ...
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.
On 21 st of November 2025, Stormont hosted the Disabled People’s Parliament. This is part of a series of people’s parliaments, which in the past have included a Women’s Parliament. The motion under ...
The recent ruling by the Supreme Court in regards to ensuring religious education in Northern Ireland is delivered in an ...
Jack Russell is a parent, primary school governor, and member of the core team at Parents for Inclusive Education NI, a grass ...
Several contributors (myself included) have written before for Slugger on the effects on young people (especially boys) of ...
The way I originally conceived this project was as a sort of shared inquiry, where the active audience(s) of Slugger would ...
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