It is unusual for NI to have a period of more than two years between elections. It has only happened twice before in the last ...

Martin Dillon’s new book is ‘The Sorrow and the Loss—The Tragic Shadow Cast by the Troubles on the Lives of Women,’ and today’s papers are full of choice extracts. Here is a roundup: MI5 ‘tampered ...

Whether or not the individual had been listening to the politicians or reading social media comments which flowed from the reports of funding for a sports pitch at Lisneal College, the sentiments ...

A new report written by Prof. Jodie Carson and Prof. Stephen Farry calls for a ‘multi-faceted policy approach to public sector transformation’ in Northern Ireland ...

Official 2025 inaugural portrait of Donald Trump by Daniel Torok (public domain). This will be the first of many shattering weeks in 2025. Even the cleverest members of the establishment that is being ...

Two weeks ago, in a comment on my post here on the second round of the Six Nations and on Facebook, I suggested that Simon Easterby could make up to 14 changes to the team that beat Scotland with only ...

Today, the Irish News reports that the world’s largest celebration of Irish music, the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, is coming to Belfast for the first time next year. The Fleadh is a big deal. When it ...

Last week PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher expressed concern at the low number of Catholic applicants to the PSNI. As this report from ITV news says… “Northern Ireland’s chief constable has said the ...

I sent the letter below to the editors of the Irish Times, Independent, News, Examiner and Belfast Telegraph. It is a little on the long side for a letter, and none saw fit to publish it. Having had ...

There’s definitely a change in the air when it comes to the future of Northern Irish politics. Eighteen years the Executive and the power sharing Assembly has achieved a genuinely deepening peace, and ...

It started with Fergal Keane and an “In-Depth” article on the BBC website on a Sunday morning in January. I soon realized this was the entrance to a rabbit-hole, that once I went in, I would fall down ...

Will Donald Trump bring peace or will be just give the Russians what they want? Either way, European leaders and, most importantly, Ukraine are unhappy about being sidelined by the talks process.