As a reluctant and begrudging, Lions fan, I felt my reluctance and begrudgery giving way when 15 Irish players were included ...

Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald popped up on ‘Good Morning Britain’ to make her case to the English, Scottish and Welsh ...

I served as an elected representative — the sole SDLP councillor in a chamber dominated by Unionism. I stood firm in my ...

PillinPillin are Slugger readers living in Spain My Grandfather was a Private in the Royal Irish Fusiliers. He fought at ...

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Finley is a Slugger reader from Belfast Every year on July 12th, parts of Northern Ireland erupt into bonfires, parades, and ...

One of the recurring themes of this blog is that the people and politicians of the Republic are utterly unprepared for the ...

After the IRA ceasefire of 1994 the then leader of unionism, James Molyneaux described this as one of the most “destabilising ...

The efforts to expunge punk-rap duo Bob Vylan entirely from the public record are remarkable, disturbing, and appalling in ...

As regular readers might know, I’m on an online news and social media break over the summer. I’ve found that reading a paper ...

I’ve written before about moving away from the conservative Christianity and unionism of my upbringing, a gradual, personal ...