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Need a break from the political noise? This thread is for anything *but* politics — books, hobbies, film recs, you name it. Slugger O'TooleA general account used for the daily threads and other things ...

Féile an Phobail is Ireland’s Biggest Community Arts Festival. This year, it is back with umpteen events from music to debates. I enjoy the debates and talks at St Mary’s. Yes, they do tend to have a ...

Andrew McClean is the Northern Ireland Advocacy Lead at Cycling UK All this week, both the media and social media have hailed the huge success of the Open Golf tournament, held in Northern Ireland for ...

When I was in a bookshop with my son at the weekend, he asked for several books. I explained that no, he could only get one, but when he read it, he could get more. “Buying books and reading books are ...

True, it’s an Executive dominated by the DUP and Sinn Féin. Yet Alliance is now the third largest party in government, and with that position comes accountability. As the SF/DUP farce continues to ...

One of the big myths about the evangelical right-wing in the USA is that they were provoked into backing the Republican party by the Roe v Wade case that introduced the right to abortion across the ...

Slogger is a North Antrim retiree and latecomer to political discourse. I need to preface this wee article by stating that ...

For the past fortnight I have been ashamed to be Irish. The savage beating and humiliation of an Indian IT worker – only ...

El Cavador is a Slugger reader from Belfast With the nights already drawing in (sorry about that!), it won’t be long before ...

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey recently wrote an opinion piece in the Guardian arguing that Britain should strengthen its ties with ...

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