Brian O’Neill

Will Sinn Féin or the DUP collapse Stormont?

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There are many things from the ’90s you don’t mind seeing a comeback: Take That, Oasis, the return of vinyl, and even, more bizarrely, cassettes. But one thing that the majority of us were happy to see consigned to that …

Jason Conlon

Boy oh boycott: After a day of chaos for the FAI, the Ireland-Israel fixtures remain set to go ahead… (as things stand!)

2019

A day of high drama ended on Saturday with the Football Association of Ireland licking its wounds, looking at the floor, and leaving its Israeli FA counterparts as the voices of sensibility and reason. The UEFA Nations’ League fixtures between …

Brian O’Neill

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.

Brian O’Neill

Open sunday – politics free zone…

2015

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.

Slugger Team

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 …

Brian Walker

Sorting out the political mess we are in…

1995

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 …

Soapbox

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’ …

Soapbox

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 …

Obelisk

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 …

Hughie Beag

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 …