Back in June, when it was revealed that Reform UK were actively considering the possibility of setting up branches in ...

Jodie Carson is a Professor of Strategic Policy in Practice at Ulster University After a brief reprieve resulting from ...

Education Minister Paul Givan sparked a political furore when he visited a school in the Holy Land. The problem? We aren’t ...

Conor Shiels with the Irish News reports that Education Minister Paul Givan has stepped in to save an Irish Language scheme that was under threat of being axed. “The Irish language schools scheme was ...

At a recent Assembly Committee Sinn Féin’s Pat Sheehan, asked ‘if one of the major parties were to walk — if they were to leave the Executive and the Assembly — could the institutions survive with any ...

After a dip in form over the past two weeks, could Series 3 of ‘Blue Lights’ get back on track in the final stretch? Before we find out, here’s another public service announcement for Slugger readers.

For three of the four Executive parties the misery continues – with the UUP the only one escaping the consequence of belonging to an Executive which gives its members no power to deliver but only to ...

Matthew Taylor is a local 23 year mental health campaigner from Belfast. In 2023, 221 people took their own lives in Northern Ireland. I almost became one of them. Admitted to a psychiatric ward from ...

Seán Patrick Donlan is a Professor of Law at Thompson Rivers University (Canada). He formerly taught Irish law at the University of Limerick and has published on comparative legal history, as well as ...

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It’s that time of the year once again when we all got an extra hour in bed as the clocks fell back (I hope everyone is well rested). We pay for it in the Spring of course when the clocks move forward ...