Confused? You won’t be, after this week’s episode of … Soap.” – Opening lines from the 1980s comedy series, Soap Years ago I heard a journalist friend tell an audience in London how political ...

Ballymena is my home town. I left it as a small child when my parents took me to London, and I have lived for most of the ...

In 2023, satellite imagery confirmed what communities around Lough Neagh had long feared: the largest freshwater lake in ...

Brian Wilson, the visionary genius behind The Beach Boys, has passed away at the age of 82, leaving behind an unparalleled ...

In Northern Ireland I believe we are normalising and becoming worryingly desensitised to the insidious and persistent ...

Louise Taylor ...

A brief interlude from our local madness. Nothing to see here 👇 Just the new Reform Chairman saying how he once drove ...

The proposed redevelopment of Casement Park has been a regular feature on Slugger for a few years now. You can go all the way back to an article by Pete Baker from 2013 (wherein he quaintly describes ...

Six people have been arrested and 17 officers injured during a second night of what the PSNI Chief Constable has described as “mindless violence”. Calm was restored to the Ballymena area after 1am ...

Riots broke out in Ballymena last night following allegations of a serious sexual assault on a local teenage girl over the weekend. Two 14-year-old Romanian boys have since appeared in court in ...