Much has been made of the phrase toxic masculinity in recent years. Examples abound in the news, the streets, behind closed ...

What you need to know SDLP warn that failure to agree Budget could cut public spending by almost £1 billion On Monday (22 ...

Jack Russell is the author of the believethedata.org blog, where this article was originally published. Northern Ireland has ...

“When people begin to work together it’s a habit that will grow.” During a week which has been understandably dominated by the conviction of Jeffrey Donaldson, one important piece of news slipped ...

It must be twenty years ago now. My parents were in their mid-seventies so I took them holiday to France for a week while they were still healthy and mobile enough to do so. I rented a gite in St ...

The economic cost of failing to invest in Northern Ireland’s future is becoming increasingly apparent. A new Ulster University Strategic Policy Unit report, Unlocking NI’s Potential: A Framework for ...

Last time I met Garret FitzGerald was in Dublin airport. He was on his way to London, but when I asked him what for, his guard came up and he deftly waved the conversation onto other things. A ...

Croatia. I was 20 minutes late, having popped into Lidl for cat litter on the way to the pub; meanwhile, Harry Kane was purring for England, having put his country 1-0 up. My heart sank upon entering ...

“Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.” Margaret Mead’s maxim comes to mind, “never doubt that a small group of ...

In a few weeks the United States will be celebrating its 250 th birthday. By any standards, its existence has been nothing short of remarkable. What was a quarter of a millennium ago a backwards, ...

It’s not often we can accuse our legislators of being efficient but on Monday night they actually managed it when the rejection of an amendment designed to raise the age of criminal responsibility ...

The jury has made its decision in the Jeffrey Donaldson trial and they have found him guilty of all 18 sex abuse charges, including one charge of rape. His wife, Lady Eleanor Donaldson, who faced five ...