Brian O'NeillManaging Editor of Slugger O’Toole. I help to manage Slugger by taking care of the site as well as running our live events. My background is in business, marketing and IT. My politics tend towards middle-of-the-road pragmatism; I am not a member of any political party. When not stuck in front of a screen, I am a parkrun Run Director.
Brian O'NeillManaging Editor of Slugger O’Toole. I help to manage Slugger by taking care of the site as well as running our live events. My background is in business, marketing and IT. My politics tend towards middle-of-the-road pragmatism; I am not a member of any political party. When not stuck in front of a screen, I am a parkrun Run Director.
COUNT DAY LIVE: Our live blog will be picking up snippets all day. Do join us or pop in from time to time to keep track of progress.
LIVE DEBATE: The first Northern Ireland leader’s debate goes out on UTV at 8pm tonight. David will be publishing a summary of the debate at the end, but for now you can follow the highlights here on Slugger. I’ve enabled the commenting facility so please do join in here on Slugger or on the live blog itself.
CONFERENCE LIVE: You can follow today’s proceedings of today’s SDLP conference and leadership election results in our CoverItLive live blog. David and Alan and other selected tweeters will keep you up to date with news and interviews, the leader’s speech at 12pm and finally the details of the results at 5pm.
There’s been much talk of our East Belfast debate tonight between the two frontrunner candidates (Naomi Long and Gavin Robinson) and why people cannot get tickets to go (they were all free for entry, but we needed to control the numbers so there’s no entry tonight without one). The answer is simply that we were sold out in the first four hours. So we’ll be trying our best to bring you the best tweets and comments on the night here …
Digital Lunch will be live in this window from about 1pm… Here’s a warmer/explainer for the seminar I’m at this morning in the beautifully renovated Crumlin Road Gaol (it really is stunning folks) from Gordon Hector of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation who along with the Building Change Trust have funded and organised a sensemaking exercise on the issue of the transfer of assets from the state to community and voluntary groups. From about 10am, I’ll be live tweeting from the …
Community Asset Transfer Okay, the first session won’t begin for about another hour. Not sure of the wifi capabilities of the venue, so I may be feeding this with content from Twitter, both my own and others on the hashtag #catjrf. I’m hoping for quite a lively session. Not sure how many will be tweeting in the hall, but I’ll pushing out bits and pieces and Lisa will be taking notes for a summarising blog for tomorrow… If you have …
UK Budget Mick FealtyMick is founding editor of Slugger. He has written papers on the impacts of the Internet on politics and the wider media and is a regular guest and speaking events across Ireland, the UK and Europe. Twitter: @MickFealty
Budget Day for Northern Ireland Okay, I’m starting this early so people can get into some of the reporting on the UK budget early. I’m in and out of Slugger Central all day, but the focus will unapologetically on how it affects Northern Ireland. That’s a job not just for reporting the bullet points of a speech but the unravelling of detail… So I hope to keep this one open for the next 24 hours… Mick FealtyMick is founding editor …
