After a lifetime in pharmacy and healthcare politics, in which I like to think I was able to hold my own, I now realise I ...

Slogger is a North Antrim retiree and latecomer to political discourse. We are a tribal species. We gravitate into tribes.

A pall of silence hangs over most of our churches. Prayer platitudes: Communion comforts, soothing sermons, finding ways to look away. From horror. Out of sight, out of mind, over there. Somewhere ...

I like to think that I am on the right side of History. But really, there is no way of knowing. The history of 2025 is not ...

An interesting article from Suzanne Breen (it’s behind a paywall but worth reading if you have a subscription) in ‘The ...

In a less degenerate age, the sixteenth century Lord of all Ulster, but in my current incarnation, a one time film maker, animator and producer/director, currently a visual artist, iconographer, ...

Whilst the English Premier League football continues this weekend… the Women’s Rugby World Cup also kicks off. The Women’s World Cup is being held in England with record crowds expected and Twickenham ...

The air in the carriage was hot and humid as we trundled through Dublin’s north-west suburbs. A miasma of sunburnt football supporters, dazed faces, in surround sound. I was on an Irish Rail service ...

It’s a phrase we hear all too often, dropped into political speeches or in answers to questions to journalists by Unionist politicians when discussing the constitutional issue. ‘The benefits of the ...

On Nolan on Friday we discussed Colum Eastwood’s claim that as an MP he often found it easier to get things done when Stormont was down than when it was up. He wasn’t advocating for abolition, but ...