With regard to the Republican’s shellacking in Texas there’s an interesting element (in a multifaceted range of reasons as to why the cliff edge there was so steep) there that we could take notice of ...

Rugby is still a game where the team that needs or wants it most can often overcome a team with greater experience or talents. But it’s also hard to sustain such intensity week in week out. With four ...

Michael Hehir is a retired sales and marketing manager. He studied in Northern Ireland but now lives between England and Italy.

In the first of a series of reports on its latest LucidTalk poll, the Belfast Telegraph is reporting on the popularity of the unionist party leaders, plus Carla Lockhart and Jamie Bryson amongst the ...

David McNarry, a veteran Drumcree protester looks back on the stand-off at Drumcree and argues that the latest denial of Portadown Orangemen’s right to walk the Garvaghy Road shows why unionism can no ...

The first chapter of John Doyle’s Before the Vote: Planning for a united Ireland examines the Northern Ireland subvention, the gap between taxes raised in Northern Ireland and the public spending ...

Whenever I visit a new city, I usually spend a fair bit of time scrolling through Instagram and doing countless web searches to find interesting things to see and do while I’m there. I’ll also have a ...

Do you remember how it began? Or how you felt when you heard the news? That Donald Trump… the reality TV show host, the self-promoting guest star of sitcoms and movies galore, the man who once took a ...

I’m sure many of you will join me in hoping that the Republicans get the absolute political sh*te kicked out of them today at the polls. Has there been a more corrupt presidency than Trump? He ...

Our always popular live event returns to the Black Box on Tuesday, the 15th of December 2026. Join Alex Kane, Allison Morris and Alan Meban as they reflect on the year in politics. This event is ...

Whenever I visit a new city, I usually spend a fair bit of time scrolling through Instagram and doing countless web searches to find interesting things to see and do while I’m there. I’ll also have a ...

The SDLP wants to shut down Stormont and move the Assembly to a “more appropriate and more accessible” building in Belfast city centre. The party argues that its plan will “bring democratic ...