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

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 ...

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 ...

As the Supreme Court deliberates on the landmark JR87 case, which challenges the exclusively Christian nature of religious education and collective worship in Northern Ireland (NI) schools, public ...

When NASA first sent men into space in the 1960s, it faced the problem of how to write in zero gravity and spent millions of dollars designing a pen that would work in space. The Soviets got around ...

Fionnuala FAGAN-THIÉBOT, Irene BOADA-MONTAGUT, Liam O'HARE, Fiona MAGOWAN, Louise HARRINGTON, David ROBINSON, Niall KERR, Hilary COPELAND, Stefanie LEHNER, and Nisha TANDON. Symposium: "Creativity in ...

I don’t like zoos. I think they’re cruel to animals, plain and simple. I remember visiting Belfast Zoo when I was a kid and watching an elephant bang his head repeatedly against the wall, clearly ...