Alan Meban. Tweets as @alaninbelfast. Blogs about cinema and theatre over at Alan in Belfast. A freelancer who writes about, reports from, live-tweets and live-streams civic, academic and political ...

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 ...

Former British Prime Minister Theresa May was in Belfast earlier this week where she addressed the Literific society at Queen’s University and answered questions. Unsurprisingly, people in the ...

Ireland versus France: 14.15 Saturday 8th. March Twenty five years ago, in 2000, Brian O’Driscoll burst onto the scene to score a hat trick against France in Paris and give Ireland their first win ...

Twenty five years ago, in 2000, Brian O’Driscoll burst onto the scene to score a hat trick against France in Paris and give Ireland their first win there in 28 years. Seven years ago, in Paris in 2018 ...

“…planning must precede a crisis rather than follow it, ensuring that shocks lead to constructive reform, rather than losses in resilience.” –Confronting the ...

Writing in the Irish Times, former Tánaiste Michael McDowell makes no bones about it. “To call Volodymyr Zelenskiy‘s meeting with Donald Trump in the Oval Office a “shouting match”, as many ...

Andy Pollak’s latest excellent and thought provoking offering, Beyond Borders: Building an All-Ireland Forum on Shared Values…, generated the usual animated debate with many of the 565 comments ...

So finally, after at least one false start last Monday when the Alliance Agriculture minister noted that none of the Executive ministers with portfolios had seen any of the thousands of consultation ...

The recent discussions regarding reunification, which have increased in the aftermath of recent polling showing a narrowing gap between those in favour of reunification and those in favour of the ...

While much of the media coverage of the launch of the Northern Ireland Executive’s latest Programme for Government (PfG) rightly focused on the specific, quantifiable targets (or lack thereof), a ...

You can now watch back Friday evening’s panel discussion at Look North: The North Belfast Festival. Slugger’s David McCann was in conversation with two retired politicians. Noreen McClelland was an ...