The Secretary of State, Hilary Benn joined the Stormont Sources podcast during the week to discuss the budget, Stormont ...

According to Auryn Cox of the BBC ( ) we are heading for a difficult flu season. Auryn reports, “Flu cases among adults and ...

In the Slugger Cato Project, our mission is clear, and even a little bit ambitious. It’s not simply to spotlight voices you might not typically hear from – though we often will. Our true purpose is to ...

Watching the events of this week, I can’t help but be struck by the performative nature of it all. Everything is gesture, everything is theatre. Everyone hits their mark, delivers their line, waits ...

Watching the events of this week, I can’t help but be struck by the performative nature of it all. Everything is gesture, everything is theatre. Everyone hits their mark, delivers their line, waits ...

What if the latest flag controversy – the decision by nationalists to fly the Palestinian flag over Belfast city hall – is not actually about Northern Ireland? What if it’s not even about Palestine?

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.

Very unhappy news for farmers on both sides of the border as it seems very likely that the Bluetongue Virus has arrived on the island of Ireland. According to Catherine Doyle and Michael McBride at ...

I was talking to a pharmacy owner over the weekend who said they had hired an extra pharmacist over the winter to cope with the rising demand from people with the flu. Experts are worried that this ...

If you heard that there was a flag controversy at Belfast City Hall, you’d be forgiven for checking your calendar to make sure that you were in the run-up to Christmas and not Groundhog Day. According ...

Last week saw the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the military dictator ‘El Caudillo’ Francisco ‘Paco’ Franco, who reigned over an actual military dictatorship for almost 40 years and the ...

Mick is founding editor of Slugger. He has written papers on the impacts of the Internet on politics and the wider media and is a regular guest and speaking events across Ireland, the UK and Europe.