One of my political mentors used to say to me “We will have to go round the countryside shaking the hedges, trying to find ...

I help to manage Slugger by taking care of the site as well as running our live events. My background is in business, marketing and IT. My politics tend towards middle-of-the-road pragmatism; I am not ...

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.

Eoghan Kelly is a postdoc on the University of Edinburgh’s Scottish Election Study and has lectured in Irish politics at Queen’s. Here, he uses his new election projection site to see how reform might ...

Fintan O’Toole is the nearest thing Ireland gets to a public intellectual: a writer of erudition and intellect who tackles the political and cultural issues of the day and of the nation through a ...

Reunification will come, but not necessarily soon, and not by wishful thinking. The combined nationalist vote still sits at roughly forty per cent, with no credible plan to move it beyond fifty, in a ...

Ba cheart go mbeadh meas comhionann ar na trí theanga dúchasacha, a Uachtaráin Ní Chonghaile. Dúirt Caitríona Ní Chonghaile – an deichiú Uachtarán na hEireann – é seo, ina hóráid insealbhaithe i ...