Northern Ireland

The upsurge in news-by-crisis has caused Twitter, the primary weapon in the digital news-by-crisis armoury, to explode from 140 characters per tweet to a massive 280 characters per tweet. This doubling in size is caused by the over…

Monday Today was just an ordinary day in the life of a proud Ulsterman, where I began the weekly fight against the persecution of my culture and community. An incident occurred this morning where I caught my daughter listening to a chap…

Treading the fine line between past and present, This Week, in History is a round-up of the latest historical events and findings which continue to impact the world today. This week, we look at the deaths of Northern Ireland's secret peace…

Treading the fine line between past and present, This Week, in History is a round-up of the latest historical events and findings which continue to impact the world today. Whether unearthing documents with continued relevance, illuminating…

Two elections to the local legislative assembly, within a year, have left the political situation in Northern Ireland exactly the same. Only different. The same because the two largest parties remain the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)…

Whether it be a young child going out to lunch with her aunt with the strange accent, or a farmer greeted in the yard by men in balaclavas looking for money, McAlinden’s stories find the tension and conflict in any situation. Though there…

To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. But it is something you cannot possibly escape: your psychological make-up is such that you are inclined to look back over your…

As Ireland hunkers down for the 2016 general election, the prospects of Sinn Fein appear rosy. Journalist Deaglan de Breadun recently published a history of the party, concentrating on the rise in its fortunes in recent years. The saying…

MoneyConf ran in T13, in the Titanic Quarter in Belfast from June 15 – 16. It sounds like the kind of thing that would only be fun is you were a millionaire investor, a FinTech startup who wants to meet a millionaire investor, or a bank who…