Speculation is growing that Mike Nesbitt will step down as UUP party leader sometime in the new year. This reflects comments ...

DUP MLA for South Antrim Trevor Clarke took to his Facebook page with the following post: I nearly fell off my chair this ...

Stormont is a very peculiar institution. In the same week that the Finance Minister, John O’Dowd called for additional tax ...

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 ...

On 21st of November 2025, Stormont hosted the Disabled People’s Parliament. This is part of a series of people’s parliaments, ...

Axios just reported that Donald Trump proposes that the U.S. and other states recognise Russian claims of sovereignty over forcibly occupied Ukrainian lands. “The new Trump plan to end the war in ...

The latest report from the ongoing Covid Inquiry will make awkward reading for those who had to make the big decisions during the Pandemic. According to the BBC report… “The UK response to Covid was ...

Tim Cairns is a Senior Policy Manager for CARE Northern Ireland has a gambling problem. Around 3% of people here, roughly 47,000 adults, are experiencing gambling harm. To put that in perspective, ...

What is really going on between the GPs and our Health Minister? For GPs to pass a motion of no-confidence in our Health Minister last weekend is unusual, for them to talk of investigating a future ...

Over the summer and the autumn I’ve been quietly working away talking to a small number of cross party backbenchers about the work they do in the Assembly as part of a new project we call the Slugger ...