Parades Commission Permits Restricted Garvaghy Road March
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The Parades Commission has approved a request from the Orange Order to hold a march along the Garvaghy Road on the 27th September subject to a number of restrictions. As per the Belfast Telegraph Permission has been granted for no …
Sorting out the political mess we are in…
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This thorough analysis by leading academics in the field, Sean Haughey Jon Tongue and Ben Rosher concentrates first on preventing Assembly breakdown and the cosmetic reform of joint First Ministers the agenda recommended by the SDLP now apparently been pursued by …
A Shared Opportunity to Transform Homelessness Prevention
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By Kate McCauley, Chief Executive of Housing Rights Like many of those gathered in the Long Gallery last Monday, I was both surprised and encouraged to hear Minister Gordon Lyons announce plans to establish a Homelessness Commission at Housing Rights’ …
Burrows: Unionism must grow the vote, not just manage it
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Jon Burrows is the Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party Unionism cannot secure its future by becoming better at managing the vote we already have. We must be smarter at elections, certainly. But we must also give people who have …
Why are twice as many Catholics on Remand than Protestants?
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Normally when I write a post for Slugger it is because I want to articulate a point of view on a given topic, but sometimes something comes up which wasn’t on my radar yet I still feel is worth talking …
Neighbours, Everybody Needs Good Neighbours…
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I’ve always had the good luck to have great neighbours. One of the mantras I try to live by is to always be the best customer possible. I also apply this principle to neighbourliness and to wider human interaction. I’m …
Germania Mania
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A year ago, President Trump addressed the United Nations for the first time in his second term. As I chronicled at the time, it appeared to mark the passing of something profound in the intangible concept of American exceptionalism, the …
Casement, McNulty and the border poll bluff: has nationalism lost its map?
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Casement Park is demolished and unbuilt, and the SDLP is fighting a sitting MLA in its own ranks. The nationalist vote has barely moved since 1998, even as unionism has declined. Now Jon Burrows is talking up Northern Ireland’s future and challenging Michelle O’Neill to debate it. Nationalism talks up an imminent border poll but has no policy map to get there.
Diesel hits £2 a litre…
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Thanks to the stable genius leader of the free world, Donald Trump, diesel in Northern Ireland has now hit £2 a litre. In Northern Ireland, diesel cars make up around 50% to 55% of all private cars on the road. …
Open Sunday – discuss what you like…
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The idea for Open Sunday is to let you discuss what you like. Just two rules. Keep it civil and no man/woman playing. Comments will close at 12 pm on Monday.