Former BBC journalist and manager in Belfast, Manchester and London, Editor Spolight; Political Editor BBC NI; Current Affairs Commissioning editor BBC Radio 4; Editor Political and Parliamentary ...

A while ago I wrote a piece entitled “The End of Morality” in which I drew attention to a number of issues where morality had ...

A Good Relations Week workshop at the Linen Hall Library offered an unusual angle on this year’s theme of ‘Include’: rather than framing inclusion as a goal to be worked toward, it asked how a library ...

The documentary emerged from Springboard’s Wall to Wall programme, a cross-community initiative funded by the International Fund for Ireland (IFI) and supported by NI Screen. Over two rounds beginning ...

What if three political parties that have spent years competing for parts of Northern Ireland’s political centre have more in common than their public disagreements might suggest? The Ulster Unionist ...

Having written extensively about the prospects for the provinces and Irish rugby over the summer, I wasn’t planning to write about rugby again before the season got properly into its stride. The ...

Jeffrey Donaldson has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a series of child sex offences, including one count of rape. The former DUP leader stood with his hands clasped in front of him in the ...

Here is Sam Mc Bride’s exclusive story about Jeffrey Donaldson as a paid adviser by the Ministry of Defence to developing countries on adapting the peace process to their various circumstances. The ...

A recent BBC News NI report describes four young refugees and asylum seekers in Belfast who cannot get into the education they want. Three areas of Executive policy bear directly on their ...

Just before my visit last week, the botched execution of Christa Pike was already an international news story. Nashville’s Centre of Correction executing a woman prisoner in 2026 was indeed something ...

My younger years were saturated in Americana via movies and TV. It was all an illusion of course, but in my mind America was very much the land of great expanses filled with exciting people. The kind ...

Northern Ireland Secretary of State Chris Bryant has overturned the parades commission determination allowing the Orange Order to parade along the Garvaghy Road, having earlier been asked by the PSNI ...