Celine McStravick is the CEO NICVA This week’s Northern Ireland Affairs Committee hearing laid bare a troubling truth: the ...

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, finally lost what little vestiges of his former royal life he had kept up ...

They are very rich and powerful, so they must be very intelligent,” goes the logic and it seems credible. After all, would ...

Helen Armstrong lives in the North West and is a psychotherapist, executive coach and trainer. I have made several written attempts to call out the problems in our current education system and how ...

At a recent Assembly Committee Sinn Féin’s Pat Sheehan, asked ‘if one of the major parties were to walk — if they were to leave the Executive and the Assembly — could the institutions survive with any ...

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When I served as a councillor, I was often contacted by families in rural areas desperate for help securing domiciliary care for elderly relatives. These were not people seeking special treatment — ...

Conor Shiels with the Irish News reports that Education Minister Paul Givan has stepped in to save an Irish Language scheme that was under threat of being axed. “The Irish language schools scheme was ...

For three of the four Executive parties the misery continues – with the UUP the only one escaping the consequence of belonging to an Executive which gives its members no power to deliver but only to ...

For some people, it is hard to think about Irish unification without thinking about bloodshed. As Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride acknowledge in the introduction of For and Against a United Ireland, ...

Seán Patrick Donlan is a Professor of Law at Thompson Rivers University (Canada). He formerly taught Irish law at the University of Limerick and has published on comparative legal history, as well as ...

After a dip in form over the past two weeks, could Series 3 of ‘Blue Lights’ get back on track in the final stretch? Before we find out, here’s another public service announcement for Slugger readers.