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Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected as Pope Leo XIV, succeeding Pope Francis. This election marks a significant ...
There’s a new play park in a Ballymena housing estate. It’s a modest but meaningful development for local families — the kind of infrastructure that, though small in the grand scheme of government, ...
Sam McBride had an excellently thought-provoking article this week arguing for a new flag for Northern Ireland in the Belfast ...
The idea for Open Sunday is to let you discuss what you like. Just two rules. Keep it civil and no man/woman playing.
Northern Ireland’s deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly has told how she has been left living in fear after receiving a death threat.Ms Little-Pengelly told the Stormont Assembly she had ...
The Irish News reports that a Free Presbyterian minister recently came out and said that Pope Francis is “most certainly an ...
The UK has secured its first trade agreement with the United States since the Trump-era tariffs shook up global commerce.
One of the more famous political terms is that of the Potemkin Village. A Potemkin Village is ‘… in its original meaning, any ...
Every time I do a panel; there’s always a smart alec in the crowd. A man, usually. Without doubt he will say, “Yeah, but the ...
The Education Reform Group of Reclaim the Enlightenment has commissioned an opinion poll by Lucid Talk on the Transfer Test.
Here we go again. Two nuclear-armed neighbours, one disputed region, and yet another burst of airstrikes to keep the cycle ...
I write this piece as a gentle challenge. A few years ago, I wrote on Slugger, “As I’ve got older, I’ve realised that as a ...