On Nolan on Friday we discussed Colum Eastwood’s claim that as an MP he often found it easier to get things done when Stormont was down than when it was up. He wasn’t advocating for abolition, but ...

O what has made that sudden noise? What on the threshold stands? It never crossed the sea because John Bull and the sea are friends; But this is not the old sea Nor this the old seashore. What gave ...

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Hannah McVeigh from Tyrone and is studying International Relations and Global Development Ties between Northern Ireland and Israel and Palestine have long been apparent. Many Unionists typically align ...

DeBeer is a one-off essay writer with influences from all over Northern Ireland and slightly beyond…’Aye one-off all right’…one-off until the next time… I did a double-take recently when I read that ...

Some of you will know that away from the grind of current affairs, I’m also a parkrun run director. For those who haven’t come across it, parkrun is a free, weekly 5k held all over the UK and Ireland.

The combined support for the four Executive parties continues to slip. It is now 13% lower than when the Executive was restored in February last year, according to the new LucidTalk poll in today’s ...

There have been few political meetings as relentlessly hyped as Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska yesterday, even though the White House had done its best in recent days ...

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