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 ...

The North and South series is a collaboration between The Irish Times and ARINS (Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South), a joint research project of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) and the ...

On Monday (3 February) Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald TD was in Parliament Buildings to announce a significant reshuffle of the party’s front bench at Stormont. The move followed confirmation ...

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.

Back in 1986 I was teaching a night class in Desktop Publishing (the use of computers to typeset newspapers or magazines). I was enthusiastic about the new technology, but one person in my class who ...

Slugger O’Toole is an award winning news and opinion portal, which takes a critical look at various strands of political politics in Ireland and Britain. It tries to bring its readers ‘open source ...

I confess to being a big fan of the Netherlands. Their pragmatic nature appeals to me—things just seem to work there. You ...

This round of the URC feels like a bit of a dress rehearsal for the Wales vs. Ireland match with Ospreys playing Leinster, ...

The human mind is incapable of rest, what it needs is change” -Winston Churchill There’s definitely a change in the air when ...

How persuadable people think seems to form a bit of a blind spot for those to whom it should matter most – people who are ...

For those of us who have spent decades in the private sector, watching the financial mismanagement within the Northern ...