For the past few weeks the moderator team has been reviewing our comment policies. The new guidelines have been developed ...

The core goal of Slugger O’Toole is to create a high-quality forum for debate. In order to keep the standard high, we have some rules to discourage the abuse that ruins so many online conversations.

Slogger is a North Antrim retiree and latecomer to political discourse. I need to preface this wee article by stating that ...

El Cavador is a Slugger reader from Belfast With the nights already drawing in (sorry about that!), it won’t be long before ...

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey recently wrote an opinion piece in the Guardian arguing that Britain should strengthen its ties with ...

For the past fortnight I have been ashamed to be Irish. The savage beating and humiliation of an Indian IT worker – only ...

Andrew McClean is the Northern Ireland Advocacy Lead at Cycling UK All this week, both the media and social media have hailed ...

It has been nearly two hundred years since the Great Famine which saw one million people die, one million emigrate and which ...

Need a break from the political noise? This thread is for anything *but* politics — books, hobbies, film recs, you name it. Slugger O'Toole A general account used for the daily threads and other ...

It’s the weekend! Here you can post and discuss news stories, social media links, or whatever is on your mind. Slugger O'Toole A general account used for the daily threads and other things.

Some recent conversations have raised questions about why fewer unionist voices are active in the comments. This article ...