When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.” — Buckminster ...

The ARINS (Analysing and Researching Ireland, North and South) project recently held its first event in Belfast, focusing on ...

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 ...

One of Sluggers’ strengths is the comments. On average, we can have around 15k comments on the site each month – which is a lot. Comments can be a pain to manage, which is why many sites have taken ...

Over at the BBC, John Campbell does his best to depress us on this fine spring day: New figures from the NI Statistics and ...

If you fancy a career change, have you considered applying for the new post of Ulster Scots commissioner? Don’t worry as the ...

The world has been reeling in the past 10 days since President Donald Trump and Vice-President J.D. Vance’s cruel two-handed ...

It is gob smacking that the Dáil has yet to appoint any committees to scrutinise government in the sort of detail that is particularly necessary at a time in European history when the tectonic plates ...

Colin Coulter is Professor of Sociology in Maynooth University. Today he continues to ask questions about the recent ARINS ...

Frank Schnittger is the author of Sovereignty 2040, a future history of how Irish re-unification might work out. He has worked in business in Dublin and London and, on a voluntary basis, for charities ...

Arnold Carton has written a very perceptive OP entitled “The problem with Y” in which he discusses the difficulties boys have in educational environments, with some research showing that having a Y ...