Ballymena is my home town. I left it as a small child when my parents took me to London, and I have lived for most of the ...

In 2023, satellite imagery confirmed what communities around Lough Neagh had long feared: the largest freshwater lake in ...

The proposed redevelopment of Casement Park has been a regular feature on Slugger for a few years now. You can go all the way back to an article by Pete Baker from 2013 (wherein he quaintly describes ...

Six people have been arrested and 17 officers injured during a second night of what the PSNI Chief Constable has described as “mindless violence”. Calm was restored to the Ballymena area after 1am ...

Riots broke out in Ballymena last night following allegations of a serious sexual assault on a local teenage girl over the weekend. Two 14-year-old Romanian boys have since appeared in court in ...

Are our MLAs breaking the law in the manner in which they go about recruiting their staff? This BBC investigative report suggests the answer is possibly… “Dozens of Northern Ireland Assembly members ...

“The Difference Between Men and Boys…is the size of their shoes and the price of their toys”. So sang Billy Dean in a country music song about thirty years ago. It must be true because, to quote ...

I believe in democracy, in Powersharing, in letting everyone have their say, but in our house, when it comes to choosing a drama or a film to watch in the evenings, my wife is usually in control. I ...

Confused? You won’t be, after this week’s episode of … Soap.” – Opening lines from the 1980s comedy series, Soap Years ago I heard a journalist friend tell an audience in London how political ...

In Northern Ireland I believe we are normalising and becoming worryingly desensitised to the insidious and persistent ...

In Larne, masked youths attacked a leisure centre and set it on fire. The centre had been providing emergency shelter for ...

Louise Taylor ...