If the opinion polls are right, it looks as though Catherine Connolly will win tomorrow’s Irish presidential election by a ...

Teresa Degenhardt is a Senior Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast. The Belfast Telegraph  reported the troubling case of a ...

It is inconceivable to imagine a modern planning system without some level of political lobbying taking place, but we are ...

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We’re two thirds of the way into Series Three and as with previous reviews, there will inevitably be spoilers about this and other episodes. So if you haven’t watched Episode Four of Series Three, ...

Halloween may be on the horizon but there is not much more frightening, it seems, than the state of the health service here in the region. Last week, in opening NICON, Northern Ireland’s annual health ...

What if? is a powerful question. In a time of myriad health, climate, ecological and social crises it can provide hope, facilitate collaboration, provide the foundations of a new story that we can ...

We’re two thirds of the way into Series Three and as with previous reviews, there will inevitably be spoilers about this and other episodes. So if you haven’t watched Episode Four of Series Three, ...

Sorry to hear of the death of Ed Moloney. I was a regular reader of his Broken Elbow blog, but I had noticed updates had been slow the past year. Edmund “Ed” Moloney passed away on October 17, 2025 at ...