The idea for Open Sunday is to let you discuss what you like. Just two rules. Keep it civil and no man/woman playing.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

OP updated for Italian, French, England ‘A’ and Ireland ‘A’ team announcements, complete with some surprises, not to say shocks! Two weeks ago, in a comment on my post here on the second round of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

There are two things that can be said about the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. The first thing is that it has worked out better than we all thought. The second is that it has worked out worse than we ...