Slugger’s energetic commissioner asked me to post about what I do all day. Who would be in the slightest interested in such quotidian ennui, I replied. We need to understand how each part of the ...

As truly awful as October 7 th 2023 was, one of the things that crossed my minds on that horrific, ghastly morning as I followed the news rolling in was how predictable the coming weeks would be. Each ...

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.

“Sinn Féin, the main opposition party, said the commemoration was offensive because it would honour William the Conqueror, England’s first Norman king, and the subjugation inflicted by his successors.

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 ...

In many quarters, there will be a warm welcome to this week’s announcement by Health Minister Mike Nesbitt to set up a Regional Obesity Management Service (ROMS). The community-based service will ...

Adam Curtis is this brilliantly oddball British documentary maker who’s made a name for himself by stitching together weird archive footage, moody music, and these sweeping, hypnotic voiceovers that ...

I remember being shocked at some of the responses to this post a few years ago – Schooldays, the most miserable days of your life?. The comments section turned into a kind of group therapy session, ...

Belfast-based litigation and media lawyer Olivia O’Kane said that with a case such as that taken by Mr Adams, “even getting to the door of the court alone could cost parties hundreds of thousands”.

The Kneecap controversy from a few weeks ago (which generated these two posts by Brian and Choyaa respectively if you need a refresher) may have slipped from the headlines, but the police ...

It’s not an original thought to observe that many people in Northern Ireland are still obsessed – haunted even – by the traumatic experiences of the ‘Troubles’. 27 years after the coming of relative ...

My buddy and I were in the gallery waiting for AC/DC to take the stage. When the big moment came we were hit with an absolute blast bomb of sound. Angus and the lads were SO loud that our stomachs ...