Ulster The race for the Áras has been unusually muted—more a slow burn than a blaze—punctuated by brief spikes of interest ...

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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. There is a nice obituary for him on his website: ...

Orson Wells’ 1958 masterpiece Touch of Evil is set in a Mexico/USA border town. The film is structured around the joisting between the ‘good, moral Mexican cop’ Mike Vargas, played by a mahogany ...

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A small dark hornet with an orange band and yellow legs has been captured in Dundonald and confirmed as an Asian hornet, marking the first verified sighting in Northern Ireland. Further reports are ...

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 ...

The third episode of the Borderlands podcast has dropped. While last week’s episodes focused on the points of views of Nationalists and Unionists respectively, this one focused on the Others and their ...