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 ...

When I was a child, I used to go walking with my father. He was a religious man and taught me a simple lesson…never pass a ...

As the manager of the Lough Neagh Partnership, I attended the Nutrient Action Plan (NAP) debate in Stormont and what I witnessed was unfortunately hugely disappointing and, if I am honest, a bit ...

We are living through a golden age of nonsense. Not in our music, or our fashion, or even our politics (though it tries). No, the real masterclass in modern gibberish comes from the language of ...

Fr. William/Conswater is an Anglican Priest in England, but was born and educated in Belfast. In April (28th) of this year Donna Moore contributed a piece here on the subject of assisted dying. It was ...

More madness from across the water. From the New York Times: The Trump administration plans to reconsider a ban on the last type of asbestos still used in the United States, according to a court ...

In today’s BelTel, Suzanne Breen has an exclusive that DUP local councillors are not happy campers. From the article: DUP councillors are at loggerheads with the leadership whom they accuse of ...

From today’s Irish News: ‌Professor Peter Shirlow, the Director at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies told The Irish News that the one form of hate is now being replaced with ...

Slogger is a North Antrim retiree and latecomer to political discourse. As I’m a total curmudgeon, this article could be part one of a series of Room 101 rants about the things that bug me the most.

From Suzanne Breen in the BelTel: Reform UK is exploring the possibility of organising in Northern Ireland, where it has more than 1,000 members. The party told the Belfast Telegraph it was “gauging ...

Last week many unionists were genuinely horrified by the violence directed against immigrants living in Ballymena and other parts of N. Ireland. Several unionist spokespeople from both the TUV and the ...

In 2023, satellite imagery confirmed what communities around Lough Neagh had long feared: the largest freshwater lake in these islands was being slowly choked by blue-green algae blooms. The cause?