Why did Britain (or England) prosper in the late 1700’s and lead the way in the Industrial Revolution? Was this in part due to the earlier Glorious Revolution when our own ‘King Billy’ defeated the ...

The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) recently released an interesting comparison of the economies of Ireland and Northern Ireland, and there’s some pretty striking stuff in the report.

There’s two things I love about golf. One is the sheer beauty and multigenerational memories of the greats playing the ...

The idea for Open Sunday is to let you discuss what you like. Just two rules. Keep it civil and no man/woman playing.

We live in a world in turmoil, dominated by extremely ugly political leaders: right-wing megalomaniacs like Donald Trump, ...

American writer Ray Bradbury predicted earphones, flat screen TVs, self driving cars and ATMs. In his 1951 short story – The ...

Bishop Dónal Mac Keown claims these services are being carried out by an ultra-conservative splinter group of the Society of ...

Deprivation is much higher in Northern Ireland than in any other part of the UK, according to new research by Queen’s ...

As the UK’s FTSE 100 fell to its lowest level for over a year and then dramatically bounced back by 5% following the pause in ...

In a piece of news that will surely come as no surprise to those of us resident in Northern Ireland, the Northern Ireland ...

A few weeks ago, nationalist parties who raised procedural issues regarding the decision to fund a sports pitch for a ...

The British government needs more money. In the financial year 2023/24 the deficit was £131 billion, equivalent to 4.8% of ...