Slugger O'Toole – Conversation, politics and stray insights
4 days ago · Brian O’Neill 30 January 2025 Musings on the blandness of modern politicans… 916 I confess to no longer following UK politics or, frankly, the news in general. For the past year …
If Election 2024 is anything to go by Fianna Fáil’s slow growth ...
Dec 2, 2024 · To be honest about the election it felt more like a dour mid winter scoring draw than any victory. Yet, after all the shouting’s done, the two main parties of the outgoing coalition still …
“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 …
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 …
Naomi Long’s Pragmatism: A Sensible Approach to the Border Poll …
Jan 16, 2025 · Alliance Party leader and Northern Ireland Justice Minister Naomi Long is somebody who is rarely interviewed or profiled by the Southern media, and almost never …
Misremembering the 1970s half a century on… – Slugger O'Toole
Dec 7, 2024 · In the 2010s we had a decade of centenaries marking key events in Irish history such as the War of Independence, the Home Rule debacle, the Easter Rising, and the 1918 …
A brief history of political Loyalism… – Slugger O'Toole
Oct 18, 2024 · TE Lawrence is a Slugger regular from Belfast. It was a post from Maise from this parish who declared that she remembered being at The Kings Hall for the GFA Referendum …
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 …
The electoral college could cost the Democrats the Presidency …
Nov 2, 2024 · We are now in the final few days of the quadrennial US election cycle. The race is so evenly split between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. The bookies though have Trump as …
A blog policeman’s lot is not a happy one – Slugger O'Toole
Sep 1, 2024 · I love to blog because I love to write, but also to engage with those who do me the honour of reading and engaging what I have written. I am grateful when they point out errors in …
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