Over the past week several MLAs visited the US for St Patrick’s Day celebrations. Economy Minister Dr Caoimhe Archibald MLA was in Boston and New York, alongside Invest NI officials, highlighting ...

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So beyond Milltown and the Bus Depot where the buses go to bed…..A roundabout. A fork in the road. I go right. The Glen Road. The waste ground where Andersonstown Barracks stood looks too small.

Over at the BBC, John Campbell does his best to depress us on this fine spring day: New figures from the NI Statistics and Research Agency, external (Nisra) suggest there will be more pensioners than ...

The world has been reeling in the past 10 days since President Donald Trump and Vice-President J.D. Vance’s cruel two-handed public humiliation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the White ...

Colin Coulter is Professor of Sociology in Maynooth University. Here he asks further searching questions about the “gold standard” ARINS survey, and what happens to the outcome if you adjust for ...

Colin Coulter is Professor of Sociology in Maynooth University. Today he continues to ask questions about the recent ARINS survey, and argues the case for making source data public and allowing ...

Arnold Carton has written a very perceptive OP entitled “The problem with Y” in which he discusses the difficulties boys have in educational environments, with some research showing that having a Y ...

It is gob smacking that the Dáil has yet to appoint any committees to scrutinise government in the sort of detail that is particularly necessary at a time in European history when the tectonic plates ...

If you were following the news last week it seems that those of us with a Y-chromosome (the males) aren’t doing so well. As a former school teacher with 30 years’ experience in secondary school ...

If you fancy a career change, have you considered applying for the new post of Ulster Scots commissioner? Don’t worry as the Irish News reports you don’t even need to be able to speak it: The head of ...

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