Conor Shiels with the Irish News reports that Education Minister Paul Givan has stepped in to save an Irish Language scheme that was under threat of being axed. “The Irish language schools scheme was ...

At a recent Assembly Committee Sinn Féin’s Pat Sheehan, asked ‘if one of the major parties were to walk — if they were to ...

After a dip in form over the past two weeks, could Series 3 of ‘Blue Lights’ get back on track in the final stretch? Before ...

Need a break from the political noise? This thread is for anything *but* politics — books, hobbies, film recs, you name it. ...

David Mitchell is an Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin at Belfast For some people, it is hard to think about ...

Matthew Taylor is a local 23 year mental health campaigner from Belfast. In 2023, 221 people took their own lives in Northern ...

It’s that time of the year once again when we all got an extra hour in bed as the clocks fell back (I hope everyone is well rested). We pay for it in the Spring of course when the clocks move forward ...

A standing man at the front of an East Belfast Church. Here to share a story. Passing on preamble he unbuttons his jacket, ...

I have always had an immense reverence for the role of President, seeing in it the triumph of the Irish system of government as one of the best ways of running a proper democracy. Better than the ...

For three of the four Executive parties the misery continues – with the UUP the only one escaping the consequence of belonging to an Executive which gives its members no power to deliver but only to ...