I can’t think of a more stressful situation for Taoiseach Micheál Martin than having to meet with Trump. It’s like juggling with live grenades. The sheer unpredictability of his mood, along with not knowing what questions will be lobbed at …

By the end of this term, every grant-aided school across Northern Ireland is required, for the first time, to inform parents that they have an absolute legal right to withdraw their child from Religious Education (RE) and collective worship, in …

Happy St.Patrick’s Day to All! If you’re attending a parade, going to a service, staying at home or even working we at Slugger hope you’ve a grand old day. Feel free to discuss what you wish below the line but …

The deterioration of Lough Neagh seems to continue unabated and it now threatens to intersect with another public health crisis, the rise of bacteria resistant to antibiotics, the so called ‘Superbugs’. As the linked WHO article puts it Antimicrobial Resistance …

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.

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. Comments will close at 12 pm on Monday.

For nearly four years, I trained as a retail store manager in Dublin. As 1985 arrived, I was offered a good opportunity in the company’s biggest store, which was due to open very soon in West Belfast. Understandably, I was …

It is said that history doesn’t actually repeat itself, but it often rhymes. The 1930s were in some ways similar to the recent decade; the settlement following the First World War was unravelling, and political extremism was on the rise. …

Cormac Moore, the rather scratchy successor to the much missed and greatly lamented Eamon Phoenix as the historian of the Irish News, has a piece in the paper about BBC Northern Ireland’s bias down the century of its existence. He …