Swallows skim the path, gone in a flash. Soon they’ll leave – towing the dreams of summer south, far from St Saviour’s Parish ...

Former Prime Minister Harold Wilson famously once said that “a week is a long time in politics” and nowhere is that seemingly truer than in Northern Ireland. This week, Robbie Butler was confirmed as ...

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In addition to our normal open Sunday, we have a politics-free post to give you all a break. So discuss what you like here, but no politics.

Commonly described within the PUL community as “the Exodus”, this movement significantly changed the social, religious, educational and political character of Derry/Londonderry. It adopts an ...

I wrote a comment on Terry Wright’s excellent OP on “Where have all the Prods gone” in which I referenced an article I had written in 2010 for the European Tribune and the USA political blogsite The ...

The idea for Open Sunday is to let you discuss what you like. Just two rules. Keep it civil and no man/woman playing. Comments will close at 12 pm on Monday. Brian O'NeillManaging Editor of Slugger ...

Jack Russell is the author of the believethedata.org blog, where this article was originally published. In a previous article, I investigated attitudes towards minorities in Northern Ireland, ...

A new report on “the Exodus” — the displacement of Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist families from the West Bank of the Foyle between 1968 and 1998 — finds a prolonged, incremental movement with no ...

UN negotiators have until the end of this year to agree a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons, built around the principle that humans must stay in control of lethal decisions. In southern ...

Something which may have slipped under people’s radars recently is the announcement by the Northern Ireland exams board, CCEA, that a number of subjects are to be discontinued. German, Economics and ...