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

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

The long-running trial of Soldier F for his alleged conduct on Bloody Sunday ended yesterday with his acquittal. The presiding Judge, Mr. Justice Lynch said (as quoted in this BBC article) “…what ...

Roy Uprichard is a retired teacher who has published three ‘Camino type’ memoirs: ...

It is inconceivable to imagine a modern planning system without some level of political lobbying taking place, but we are currently seeing an exponential rise in this activity due to the housing and ...

The fake deepfake AI video of the Irish Presidential candidate Catherine Connelly pulling out of the race is a dark harbinger of things to come. Note how realistic the visuals and voices are. This AI ...

If the opinion polls are right, it looks as though Catherine Connolly will win tomorrow’s Irish presidential election by a distance. I believe Heather Humphreys missed a big opportunity: to take on ...

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Halloween may be on the horizon but there is not much more frightening, it seems, than the state of the health service here in the region. Last week, in opening NICON, Northern Ireland’s annual health ...

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No, a wormhole hasn’t opened and taken us back to the 1970s – this time it’s the son, Kyle Paisley. Writing on Facebook, he had this to say about King Charles meeting the Pope: This week we will see ...