The efforts to expunge punk-rap duo Bob Vylan entirely from the public record are remarkable, disturbing, and appalling in ...

Originally from Fermanagh, Eoghan Kelly is a postdoc on University of Edinburgh’s Scottish Election Study and has lectured in Irish politics at Queen’s. Here he introduces a new election projection ...

I’ve always had a thing for Greek myths and legends. These fantastical tales full of cruel and capricious Gods, wicked monsters and daring heroes have seeped into the very bedrock of western culture.

From John Campbell at the BBC: A £100 increase in the average household rates bill could largely solve Northern Ireland’s water infrastructure crisis, a new report has suggested. The study was ...

One of life’s true delights is sitting on a blazing sunny day, such as today, on a stool outside one of the many bars in Pamplona’s old town having a beer and just watching the world pass by. The ...

Something strange is happening in America. Presidents Obama and Biden both arrested and deported undocumented migrants and we expected Trump to increase the rate at which this happened. However, many ...

The latest series of talks at the Photo Museum Ireland featured an insightful lecture by Colin Graham , a professor of English and an accomplished author. The evening’s discussion centred around the ...

From the BBC: The 33-year-old socialist declared victory in the city’s Democratic primary on Tuesday, defeating his main rival and political veteran Andrew Cuomo who previously served as state ...

Clowntown. An ugly undercurrent surrounding this week’s court case which struck down the DoFI plans for the A5 road, was a sense amongst some of the road’s supporters that this was a Catholic v ...

We are living through a golden age of nonsense. Not in our music, or our fashion, or even our politics (though it tries). No, the real masterclass in modern gibberish comes from the language of ...

Which maybe one of the few times he has actually accurately analysed a geopolitical situation. However, if this truly is the conclusion of the Iran-Israel War, this is a good time to stop and reflect ...

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. Comments will close at 12 pm on Monday. Brian O'Neill I ...