Adam Turkington is a freelance creative producer and consultant who as part of Daisy Chain Inc is part of the team bringing ...

Politicians have condemned violent scenes across several towns in NI this week. As of Friday, 63 PSNI officers have been injured, according to the Police Federation for Northern Ireland. The disorder ...

Six people have been arrested and 17 officers injured during a second night of what the PSNI Chief Constable has described as “mindless violence”. Calm was restored to the Ballymena area after 1am ...

In 2023, satellite imagery confirmed what communities around Lough Neagh had long feared: the largest freshwater lake in these islands was being slowly choked by blue-green algae blooms. The cause?

Ballymena is my home town. I left it as a small child when my parents took me to London, and I have lived for most of the past 50 years in Dublin. But, for better or worse, it still has a special ...

Riots broke out in Ballymena last night following allegations of a serious sexual assault on a local teenage girl over the weekend. Two 14-year-old Romanian boys have since appeared in court in ...

Brian Wilson, the visionary genius behind The Beach Boys, has passed away at the age of 82, leaving behind an unparalleled legacy of harmony, heartbreak, and sun-soaked Americana that reshaped the ...

In Northern Ireland I believe we are normalising and becoming worryingly desensitised to the insidious and persistent existence of paramilitaries on our streets, in our communities and in our cities.

“Confused? You won’t be, after this week’s episode of … Soap.” – Opening lines from the 1980s comedy series, Soap Years ago I heard a journalist friend tell an audience in London how political ...

“Thus says Yahweh to his anointed one, to Cyrus whom, he says, I have grasped by his right hand, to make the nations bow before him and to disarm kings, to open gateways before him so that their gates ...

The proposed redevelopment of Casement Park has been a regular feature on Slugger for a few years now. You can go all the way back to an article by Pete Baker from 2013 (wherein he quaintly describes ...

Are our MLAs breaking the law in the manner in which they go about recruiting their staff? This BBC investigative report suggests the answer is possibly… “Dozens of Northern Ireland Assembly members ...