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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

El Cavador is a Slugger reader from Belfast With the nights already drawing in (sorry about that!), it won’t be long before the minds of parents and Primary School children returning to P7 turn to ...

It has been nearly two hundred years since the Great Famine which saw one million people die, one million emigrate and which haunted the survivors in one form or another for decades after. Whilst ...