There was a discussion recently on Reddit about our parsimonious approach to home heating here in the UK and Ireland. The ...

Boxing Day is a significant date in the fox-hunting calendar. Foxes are unaware of this, moving through hedgerows and fields ...

I find myself saddened today about something I have been waiting eight years to happen. I’ve been a big fan of Chris Rea since he first appeared in the seventies. My wife and I went to see Chris at ...

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 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.

Almost 30 years ago, I arrived in my classroom to discover the pupils grinning guiltily and the floor literally swimming with water – someone had been throwing water balloons – more than one. Deciding ...

A follow-up analysis to ‘The Irony of Integration: How a Progressive Ideal Can Impede Progress in a Transitional Society’. Northern Ireland has already acknowledged the importance of societal default ...

Is a United Ireland inevitable, or is the status quo strengthening? This final installment of our University of Liverpool survey series tackles the Border Poll head-on. While support for unity has ...

In the final episode of the first series of the Slugger Cato Project, we sat down with DUP MLA and former Minister Diane Dodds. For those new to the series, this project is a shared inquiry into the ...

Part two of Professor Peter Shirlow‘s survey analysis dives into the stark challenges facing Northern Ireland’s political blocs. Our data reveals zero growth in the pro-unity vote share since 1998, ...

The latest occasional poll from Liverpool University’s Institute of Irish Studies has been picked up by the Belfast Telegraph. It shows a pattern of party support similar to recent LucidTalk polls.

After more than five years commenting on Slugger, I can still count the regular female voices roughly on one hand. When almost half the population isn’t represented here, we should be asking why. This ...