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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Here you can post and discuss news stories, social media links, or whatever is on your mind. Slugger O'Toole A general account used for the daily threads and other things.

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 ...

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

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

Reconciliation, rekənˌsɪliˈeɪʃən :  “the process of making two people or groups of people friendly again after they have argued seriously or fought and kept apart from each other, or a situation in ...