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Schools in Ireland to be given choice of 2021-04-22 08:47:36NEW SCHOOLS across Ireland will be given the choice of installing gender neutral toilets under ne...

'Taking the knee' will be banned at Tokyo 2021-04-22 07:52:32ATHLETES will not be allowed to 'take the knee' or make any sort of gesture in support of Black L...

‘Shameful’ image of four-year-old homeless girl eating dinner 2021-04-22 07:50:08THE STARK image of a four-year-old homeless girl eating dinner from a plastic tray by a roadside ...

Vicky Phelan given green light to visit children 2021-04-22 07:12:31VICKY PHELAN has been given the go-ahead to visit her family in Ireland this summer as her experi...

What Derek Chauvin wrote on his hand as 2021-04-22 07:00:28THE MESSAGE convicted killer Derek Chauvin had scrawled on his hand as he was led out of court ha...

Jamie McGrath could be the answer to Ireland's 2021-04-22 06:53:54HIS RECORD speaks for itself. Ireland's lack of goals is no secret. Our most recent international...

Hairdressers, click-and-collect and religous services to reopen in 2021-04-22 06:11:03IRELAND is accelerating its slow return to normality following news that three major sectors will...

Conor McGregor's sparring partner says he's eyeing a 2021-04-22 06:06:41HE IS never one to shy away from a challenge. It will be truly fascinating to see what Conor McGr...

WATCH: 'It's f***ing huge!' Enormous basking shark flabbergasts 2021-04-22 05:40:56KAYAKERS EXPLORING the waters of County Kerry yesterday had a much more exciting trip than they i...

Holidays abroad back on cards by end of 2021-04-22 05:32:58HOLIDAYS ABROAD could be back on the cards later this year, provided travellers are fully vaccina...

Celtic and Rangers could be in line to 2021-04-22 05:19:19SHOULD CELTIC and Rangers join a British Super League? While the dust continues to settle on the ...

Fight to save Dublin literary landmark fails as 2021-04-22 03:45:04THE FIGHT to save a literary landmark in Dublin has failed, and James Joyce's House of the Dead w...

Slugger O'Toole

The embers of sectarianism and violent protest never 2021-04-17 06:35:12“Young people in Northern Ireland are heir to an historical legacy of sectarian social division.” Acts of Union: Youth culture and sectari

A new series of conversations on the future 2021-04-16 04:05:48Holywell Trust’s third series of Forward Together podcasts is launched today. As with the previous series, the focus is on how to make progress

Unionism, which has too often relied upon fear 2021-04-14 10:08:05Editor’s note: Slugger has had a upturn in readers for coverage that’s more reflective than the ‘look petrol bombs!’ material

Soapbox: Could our future lie in a Celtonian 2021-04-13 06:15:09Dorcha Lee is a retired Irish Army Colonel, defence analyst, op ed writer and international election observer. He offers a thought experiment. What if

Brexit and now Covid management shows Johnson’s government 2021-04-12 13:39:42Some years ago I found myself  as one of a small team  called to the Cabinet Office to be asked to do a study of the state of the devolution

Questions remain about the origin of Covid 19… 2021-04-12 02:49:39I try to avoid being duped by conspiracies theories. When I read about a cabal of paedophiles in the basement of a Washington pizzeria, I switch off.

The NI Protocol is shaky ground upon which 2021-04-11 07:04:00In addition to some unionists echoing the worst traits of ‘big house unionism ‘with patronising and condescending statements stressing wor

“Nationalism’s sectarian success is not surprising, but its 2021-04-11 02:10:27Did you notice when Sammy Wilson called Robin Swann a poodle? The outrage was such that Arlene Foster had to distance herself from him. Then there was

Article 16: “the political equivalent of telling a 2021-04-10 02:31:32Out with Slugger (we’ve had more than 30k readers this week since Monday) there’s been a general shortage of analysis of how we got to rio

EU statesmanship needed in order to close the 2021-04-09 04:34:10One of the things Pete Baker taught me early on in the life of Slugger was never to skip too far ahead of what you know you know. What we know about t

Unionism in a tailspin is bad for Unionism 2021-04-09 03:18:52For some time now I have been voicing grave concerns about the direction in which Unionism is travelling in and indeed the underlying problems that ha

For the sake of future generations, we simply 2021-04-08 13:59:40I remember back in 1984 being on holiday on a Greek island and wasting an evening drinking largely on my own while a friend who hailed from the loyali