Toasties and tall tales with the two cowboys of Tubbercurry

In the latest instalment of his diary, our hero Fabien McQuillan attempts to get his bearings on an unusual fishing trip ...
Opinion

Chris Donnelly: It is the head of state in Britain, not Ireland, that creates a cold house for communities in the north

Imagine the reaction if the Irish President ‘had’ to be a Catholic. Yet the reality that the head of state post excludes Catholics is treated by the media as a non-story ...
Opinion

Noel Doran: Is anger now the only way Gavin Robinson’s DUP can respond to a changing world?

Trimble went out of his way to insult nationalists at Queen’s University in the immediate aftermath of Bloody Sunday in Derry in 1972, according to Stephen Walker’s biography which was published ...

‘Even a story about losing your soul can have plenty of life’: Big Telly’s Faust-ish brings a Northern Irish bite to a classic tale

Sophie Clarke chats to Big Telly artistic director Zoe Seaton about turning the classic Faust tale into a witty, soul-searching story for modern audiences ...
Opinion

Tom Kelly: The list of Stormont failures now reads like a litany of saints

That said, Stormont isn’t failing because it’s too big to fail – on the contrary, it fails because it’s too small to succeed. The list of Executive and departmental failures is now so long that it ...

Stormont department sees agency staff spending spiral to £9 million

The Stormont department responsible for tackling the Lough Neagh pollution crisis spent over £9 million in one year hiring temporary agency staff, it has emerged. The latest figures from the ...