The world is on fire. There are wars in Africa. There are conflicts in Asia. There is the ongoing, grinding bloodbath in ...

Jennifer Todd is Emeritus (Full) Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, UCD Constitutional change to a united Ireland is high stakes– it would change almost every aspect of life ...

The Secretary of State, Hilary Benn joined the Stormont Sources podcast during the week to discuss the budget, Stormont Reform and a border poll. “It’s a long way off because no one who is calling for ...

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 ...

According to Auryn Cox of the BBC (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4q5g2ww55o) we are heading for a difficult flu season. Auryn reports, “Flu cases among ...

This interesting event popped into my inbox. The John and Pat Hume Foundation and INCORE are delighted that Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, the distinguished international human rights lawyer, will deliver ...

Rising anger over the various Middle East conflicts involving Israel in the past two years, particularly the war in Gaza (which has been determined to be genocidal by a UN commission) led RTÉ, as well ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...