Riots broke out in Ballymena last night following allegations of a serious sexual assault on a local teenage girl over the ...

There have been riots the past few days in LA. Kicked off by people understandably being upset by masked men coming into ...

I help to manage Slugger by taking care of the site as well as running our live events. My background is in business, marketing and IT. My politics tend towards middle-of-the-road pragmatism, I am not ...

“The Difference Between Men and Boys…is the size of their shoes and the price of their toys”. So sang Billy Dean in a country music song about thirty years ago. It must be true because, to quote ...

I believe in democracy, in Powersharing, in letting everyone have their say, but in our house, when it comes to choosing a drama or a film to watch in the evenings, my wife is usually in control. I ...

A business confidant recently put it to me bluntly over a pint in South Belfast: academic qualifications, he said, are now inversely proportional to earning potential. It was a sweeping statement, but ...

When NASA first sent men into space in the 1960s, it faced the problem of how to write in zero gravity and spent millions of dollars designing a pen that would work in space. The Soviets got around ...

As the Supreme Court deliberates on the landmark JR87 case, which challenges the exclusively Christian nature of religious education and collective worship in Northern Ireland (NI) schools, public ...

A recent Slugger OP argued for increasing the number of elected political members on the boards of our public bodies. Instead, I propose abolishing this outdated aspect of post-conflict governance.

Fionnuala FAGAN-THIÉBOT, Irene BOADA-MONTAGUT, Liam O'HARE, Fiona MAGOWAN, Louise HARRINGTON, David ROBINSON, Niall KERR, Hilary COPELAND, Stefanie LEHNER, and Nisha TANDON. Symposium: "Creativity in ...

I don’t like zoos. I think they’re cruel to animals, plain and simple. I remember visiting Belfast Zoo when I was a kid and watching an elephant bang his head repeatedly against the wall, clearly ...

The verdict isn’t the calamity which gloomier searchers for truth and other investigators may fear. It will have a limited effect. Media managers and their journalists must hold their nerve. In an ...