Some recent conversations have raised questions about why fewer unionist voices are active in the comments. This article reflects on that and invites everyone to consider what helps make debate more ...

Here you can post and discuss news stories, social media links, or whatever is on your mind. Slugger O'Toole A general account used for the daily threads and other things.

Is it totally fanciful to imagine that Donegal might serve as a model for a harmonious united Ireland? I have just returned after a week’s cycling in that beautiful northernmost county, where this ...

After listening to the 45 minutes of complaint by Mervyn Gibson on BBC Talkback, I read the Orange Order statement in full and as someone who grew up in a firmly unionist family, attending ...

Need a break from the political noise? This thread is for anything *but* politics — books, hobbies, film recs, you name it. Slugger O'Toole A general account used for the daily threads and other ...

Today, Wednesday, Sean will be cremated at Roselawn Crematorium. You will not know this as he left strict instructions there would be; no death notices, no mass, no eulogy, no memorial cards. Sean is ...

It’s the weekend! Here you can post and discuss news stories, social media links, or whatever is on your mind. Slugger O'Toole A general account used for the daily threads and other things.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin delivered the annual Seamus Mallon ‘Shared Home Place’ Lecture in the Navan Centre & Fort in Armagh this evening. You can watch back the full event which was chaired by Hume ...

Back in 2006, the case for devolving corporation tax powers to Northern Ireland was championed as an economic game-changer. Nearly 20 years later, the idea remains strong—but it’s been quietly shelved ...