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It may be hard to believe it, but we are coming up on NINE years since the Brexit referendum (and before you know it we will ...
If you were one of the thousands who packed your bags for Spain this Easter hoping for sun, sea and sangria, you probably ...
I love this story about Steve Jobs from Adam Lashinsky in Fortune: Apple doesn’t often fail, and when it does, it isn’t a ...
Finley is a Slugger reader from Belfast The relationship between the United States and China is now more strained than at any ...
The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) recently released an interesting comparison of the economies of Ireland and Northern Ireland, and there’s some pretty striking stuff in the report.
Why did Britain (or England) prosper in the late 1700’s and lead the way in the Industrial Revolution? Was this in part due to the earlier Glorious Revolution when our own ‘King Billy’ defeated the ...
There’s two things I love about golf. One is the sheer beauty and multigenerational memories of the greats playing the ...
The car-reliant nature of Northern Ireland means that most households here have access to a motor vehicle. So most will also ...
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.
PM holds talks with FM and dFM to discuss US tariffs On Friday (11 April), Prime Minister Keir Starmer held a call with political leaders from NI, Scotland, and Wales to discuss the impact of tariffs ...
In the 1950s American writer Ray Bradbury predicted earphones, flat screen TVs, self driving cars and ATMs. In his 1951 short story – The Pedestrian – Bradbury also predicted a future where you might ...