Reform UK is exploring the possibility of organising in Northern Ireland, where it has more than 1,000 members. The party ...

From today’s Irish News: ‌Professor Peter Shirlow, the Director at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies told The Irish News that the one form of hate is now being replaced with ...

In today’s BelTel, Suzanne Breen has an exclusive that DUP local councillors are not happy campers. From the article: DUP councillors are at loggerheads with the leadership whom they accuse of ...

Eliza McKEE, Caoili O'DOHERTY, Kate MANNING, Sam McBRIDE, Nicholas CAGE, and Ruth MURRAY. Using Archives for Reconciliation: A Dialogue. Event hosted by Quill Project ...

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.

In 2023, satellite imagery confirmed what communities around Lough Neagh had long feared: the largest freshwater lake in these islands was being slowly choked by blue-green algae blooms. The cause?

“Confused? You won’t be, after this week’s episode of … Soap.” – Opening lines from the 1980s comedy series, Soap Years ago I heard a journalist friend tell an audience in London how political ...

Ballymena is my home town. I left it as a small child when my parents took me to London, and I have lived for most of the past 50 years in Dublin. But, for better or worse, it still has a special ...

Brian Wilson, the visionary genius behind The Beach Boys, has passed away at the age of 82, leaving behind an unparalleled legacy of harmony, heartbreak, and sun-soaked Americana that reshaped the ...

In Northern Ireland I believe we are normalising and becoming worryingly desensitised to the insidious and persistent existence of paramilitaries on our streets, in our communities and in our cities.

Six people have been arrested and 17 officers injured during a second night of what the PSNI Chief Constable has described as “mindless violence”. Calm was restored to the Ballymena area after 1am ...