For nearly four years, I trained as a retail store manager in Dublin. As 1985 arrived, I was offered a good opportunity in ...

There is something deeply irritating about replacing something you already own. A bike lost or stolen and bought again. A carton of milk picked up at the shop, only to come home and find another ...

the switch away from modular assessment throughout the two years, with most courses assessed only by exams at the end of the two-year course. the removal of controlled assessment (coursework). GCSE ...

Mick looks at Claire Hanna’s direct if deliberately modest assault on the St Andrews settlement with three targeted institutional reforms — and she has done so at precisely the moment Sinn Féin can ...

Avoniel In December 2025, Paul Givan opened a new £16.5 million controlled primary school on Avoniel Road in East Belfast. The building — a Grade A listed structure designed in 1933 by Reginald S.

Originally from Clones Co. Monaghan, Houdi McCabe is a legend in his own mind. He worked as a Branch Manager with Dunnes Stores all over Northern Ireland for 42 years. Retired, he now writes and acts ...

It is said that history doesn’t actually repeat itself, but it often rhymes. The 1930s were in some ways similar to the ...

Mick looks at Claire Hanna's direct if deliberately modest assault on the St Andrews settlement with three targeted institutional reforms — and she has done so at precisely the moment Sinn Féin can ...

Cormac Moore, the rather scratchy successor to the much missed and greatly lamented Eamon Phoenix as the historian of the Irish News, has a piece in the paper about BBC Northern Ireland’s bias down ...

After thirty years of post-Agreement politics, support for a united Ireland hasn't moved. The border poll debate needs a ...

Keir Starmer may not want to admit it, but the general belief at this moment in time is that he is entering the twilight of ...

The long drawn out saga of new British legacy legislation falls between two stools. Too much law for anti “lawfare” campaigners. Not enough legal enforcement for some victims groups and “transitional ...