Over at the BBC, John Campbell does his best to depress us on this fine spring day: New figures from the NI Statistics and ...

If you fancy a career change, have you considered applying for the new post of Ulster Scots commissioner? Don’t worry as the ...

The world has been reeling in the past 10 days since President Donald Trump and Vice-President J.D. Vance’s cruel two-handed ...

It is gob smacking that the Dáil has yet to appoint any committees to scrutinise government in the sort of detail that is ...

Colin Coulter is Professor of Sociology in Maynooth University. Today he continues to ask questions about the recent ARINS ...

Arnold Carton has written a very perceptive OP entitled “The problem with Y” in which he discusses the difficulties boys have in educational environments, with some research showing that having a Y ...

In my previous blog here: Speaking right: What an Taoiseach should say in Washington I gave an account of my experiences in speech writing and the many lessons I have learned about that craft, often ...

Colin Coulter is Professor of Sociology in Maynooth University. Here he asks further searching questions about the “gold standard” ARINS survey, and what happens to the outcome if you adjust for ...

If you were following the news last week it seems that those of us with a Y-chromosome (the males) aren’t doing so well. As a former school teacher with 30 years’ experience in secondary school ...