Slugger O'Toole – Conversation, politics and stray insights
3 days ago · Frank Schnittger 15 January 2025 Six Nations 2025 Preview 425 Six Nations 2025 Preview The Six nations squads have been announced and bar the usual injuries, not many surprises are contained therein. . Ireland seek to win the Six Nations for an unprecedented third time in a row without their … read David Bell 15 January 2025 From 17th-Century Ecclesiastical Scholarship to Modern-Day Science ...
“There is indeed a major threat to unionism, but it comes from …
Aug 27, 2024 · Davy Adams is a man who has had quite a journey. From being a loyalist paramilitary in Belfast to working for the Dublin-based charity Goal, where he worked in many countries across Africa and the Middle East. His newspaper columns are always worth reading for their reflective nature on our various issues, he really should write an autobiography. Anyway, his latest column for the Beltel ...
Call for Votes at 16 in Northern Ireland… – Slugger O'Toole
Sep 17, 2024 · Last Friday the 13th September, hundreds of people from across the UK gathered at Queen’s University Belfast to call on the Northern Ireland Executive to extend the right to vote in elections to 16- and 17-year-olds in Northern Ireland. The grassroots, youth-led campaign is supported by Politics in Action. Northern Ireland is the only devolved region where 16 and 17 years olds can’t vote ...
More Status Quo please – for now – Slugger O'Toole
Dec 2, 2024 · The above graphic is an RTE snapshot of the state of the parties at the time this blog was published The results of the Irish general election are largely in, and the outlines of the result have become clear. With the number of seats increasing by 14 due to a rising population, you had to be increasing your seat numbers to avoid going backwards, and by this criterion Fine Gael, Sinn Féin and ...
The Really Hard Work Starts Now – Slugger O'Toole
Dec 3, 2024 · Our esteemed founder and Editor, Mick Fealty, has an opinion piece up entitled If Election 2024 is anything to go by Fianna Fáil’s slow growth approach seems to be working just fine which is a tendentious reading of the election result, if not downright misleading.. Fianna Fáil’s vote share actually continued its long term decline …
Requiem for a Dream – Slugger O'Toole
Dec 9, 2024 · Today, the Netherlands reinstituted border checks with Germany and Belgium. The new policy, which will initially run for six months, aims “to combat migration and human-trafficking”. According to the EU, fourteen of the twenty-nine members of the Schengen passport-free travel area currently have some form of “temporary” border control; of these all but Malta’s relating to a major ...
Screaming into the Abyss – Slugger O'Toole
Oct 1, 2024 · I never intended for this to become a series. I had hoped that at each point some measure of sanity would prevail and that the combatants in the unfolding catastrophe in the Middle East would pull back from the brink rather than dance precariously upon it to see how far they could push things.. With the assassination of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah a few days ago and the ...
After the election, even if the DUP faces a crisis then the rest of ...
Jul 17, 2024 · In the doldrum life of Northern Ireland politics losing one seat is a misfortune, two careless, three criminally negligent. To have escaped two more potential losses is a serious warning from the future for the DUP that for too long played just one card. Since the writ of that one card trick (keeping the FM’s job for unionism) ran out in the last Assembly election in 2022 the party has been ...
Slugger Exclusive: the Saltwater Bridge has been saved
Oct 22, 2024 · Well, really not exclusive at all, but the truth is that the Saltwater Bridge wasn’t in serious danger in the first place, and this was established by Jim Allister in the Assembly in 2020, who followed the linked question with further queries regarding the progress of the investigation. The history It’s well established that King William III …
What brings you to Slugger O’Toole? – Slugger O'Toole
Sep 8, 2024 · Macha is a Slugger reader from County Armagh I bought Slugger a Christmas Drink in 2020, so I’ve been hanging out here pretty regularly for at least four years. Often I read more than I comment, but I have been known to get drawn into long and sometimes heated debates. While people dismiss toxic online interactions, the effect of …
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