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Slugger O'Toole
Slugger O’Toole is an award winning news and opinion portal, which takes a critical look at various strands of political politics in Ireland and Britain.
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Slugger Podcast looks at the State of the State Report 2025
David McCann talks with Ed Roddis and Marie Doyle from Deloitte about the 2025 State of the State Report in Northern Ireland.
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Slugger Podcast looks at the State of the State Report
David McCann talks with Ed Roddis and Marie Doyle from Deloitte about the 2024 State of the State Report in Northern Ireland.
Breaking Boundaries: Looking ahead to #GE24
David McCann and Peter Donaghy look at how the proposed new constituency boundaries could impact the next election results in Northern Ireland
The Crisis in the GP service
In this episode, we discuss the crisis in the GP service in Northern Ireland. What are the issues, and more importantly, what do we need to do to addr...
What is behind the University Strike Action? With Professor Dominic Bryan
In this episode, Brian O'Neill talks to Professor Dominic Bryan from Queen's University Belfast about the reasons for the University Strike Action. W...
Slugger Podcast talks about the State of the State
In this episode of the Slugger podcast, we speak with Ed Roddis, Head of Public Sector Research, and Marie Doyle, Partner at Deloitte about the latest...
Greg Keeffe on How the pandemic is changing how we live
Greg Keeffe is an academic and urban designer with over 30 years experience in sustainability, energy use and its impact on the design of built form a...
Slugger Podcast talks about the State of the State
In this episode of the Slugger podcast we speak with Ed Roddis, Head of Public Sector Research and Marie Doyle, Director at Deloitte about the latest...
Politics Plus: US Lessons for Northern Ireland in democracy
Here's our wrap up session with Ruarai and Shane reflecting on the lessons that might be drawn from the US elections for politicians and political par...
#TheReset Podcast: "Why can't government do things (anymore)"?
Ed Straw has been in and around government and state led projects for a large part of his later working life. He has also been involved with the UK La...
NI's opportunity lies in attracting new people as well as new jobs
Today Mick spoke with his old friend and Lagan College alumnus Shane Greer, who now owns and publishes Campaigns and Elections Magazine and lives and...
Siobhan O'Neill on the need to develop "pack leaders" at every level of society in our responses to Covid 19...
Now today's Cargo of Bricks with Siobhan O'Neill, Northern Ireland's mental health champion was recorded before this morning's announcement of a four-...
Covid has unleashed a vast global economic experiment
In today's Cargo of Bricks, we take our first look at how the southern economy is coping with the shocks to the labour market in particular. With my g...
Strategic response to economic crisis facing those leaving education needed
One of the key reasons for having the Reset project in a space like Slugger is to look behind the headlines and try to assay the effects of the Covid...
Steve Bradley on the future of Derry - #TheReset
Steve Bradley is a regeneration consultant, you can follow him on Twitter. Steve is a very popular writer on Slugger with some of his posts getting ov...
What does Jürgen Klopp have to do with democratic renewal? #CargoOfBricks
Do we need a re-set in our democratic culture? We often tie ourselves in knots thinking that Northern Ireland is an exception to the rest of the world...
Fluidity of technological change means cultural industries should be more central than ever
In today's Cargo of Bricks, I speak to Ali FitzGibbon and discover how the long slow and steady bottom-up development of Northern Ireland's cultural i...
Richard Ramsey, Chief Economist, Ulster Bank on #TheReset Project
Series two, episode 1 opens with an introduction to #TheReset, a joint project between Slugger O'Toole and Ulster Bank.
And after...
#InConversation Podcast with Professor David Rooney from Queen’s about renewable energy and electric cars
David Rooney is a Professor in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Queen's University Belfast.
In this podcast, we chat about im...
#InConversation with Tim Attwood on the life and legacy of John Hume
Tim Attwood was an SDLP councillor and party worker who knew John Hume well. In this podcast we discuss the life of John Hume and his legacy.
Brian O’Neill talks with Greg Keefe from Queen’s about rebuilding our cities and societies after Covid-19.
Greg Keeffe is Head of the School of Natural and Built Environment. He is an academic and urban designer with 25 years experience. In this podcast we...
#InConversation - Brian O’Neill talks with Michael McCoy. From the Ormeau Road to Tokyo and other tales...
Originally from the Ormeau Road in Belfast, Michael McCoy has lived in Japan for the past 30 years where he works as an executive coach. In this conv...
#CargoOfBricks 10: Social science can help NI politicians catch up with where the people already are and want to be...
Rosa Luxemburg once observed that without all the components of democracy (elections, unrestricted free press and assembly, and free struggle of opini...
#InConversation - Brian O’Neill talks with Dr David Suitor about dentistry generally and the challenges of Covid-19.
Open wide, this week I chat with Dr David Suitor who has been a dentist in Belfast for over 17 years. We chat about the general state of dentistry in...
#CargoOfBricks 9: From library assistant in Belfast to Smash Hits boss in four years...
This week's guest, Barry McIlheney, grew up in Oldpark in North Belfast and became singer (or as he puts it, 'chief shouter in front') in a punk band...
#SluggerTV - Campaign to Extend the Franchise for the Irish Presidency
Slugger's deputy editor David McCann discusses the campaign to extend the franchise for the Irish Presidency with Naomi O'Leary (Europe correspondent...
#InConversation Brian O’Neill talks with Dr John Moriarty from Queen’s about changes to work patterns during Covid-19.
John is a fellow in the Centre for evidence and social innovation and a sociology lecturer School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work at Que...
#CargoOfBricks 8: Lockdown London and getting kettled outside Downing Street
Episode Eight of #CargoOfBricks is with Dublin born, London based historian, a public commentator on both Irish and British politics and prolific crim...
#CargoOfBricks 7: Cooperation, looking outwards and maximising Northern Ireland's advantage...
Episode Seven of #CargoOfBricks, is with Willie McCarter a man who brought Fruit of the Loom in from the US to expand his family business at a time wh...
#InConversation Podcast - Brian O’Neill talks with Adam Turkington from Seedhead Arts about the arts sector in Northern Ireland.
In this podcast, I chat with Adam Turkington. Adam is a veteran of the arts scene who is best known as the Director of Culture Night in Belfast. He ha...
#Cargo Of Bricks 6: Closing the wealth gap to save the planet
In Episode Six of #CargoOfBricks, Mick speaks to Eric Lonergan who, with Mark Blyth, in #Angrynomics critiques how populism exploits the vacuum betwee...
#CargoOfBricks 5: After Covid can Northern Ireland's politicians continue to lead in other areas of policy?
In episode five of Cargo of Bricks podcast, I spoke to Tina McKenzie who is the current chair of the FSB in Northern Ireland as well as CEO of Grafton...
#SluggerTV – easing lockdown into what sort of economy + whether Cummings’ trip to Durham has damaged Johnson’s political currency
David McCann is joined by commentators Julie-Anne Corr Johnston and Tim Cairns to discuss how Northern Ireland is coming out of lockdown and what sort...
#InConversation Podcast with Ellie Francis – The skills shortage in Northern Ireland
Many sectors in Northern Ireland are facing a skills shortage. In this podcast I chat with Ellie Francis about how this will affect the economy.
#CargoOfBricks 4: On Ireland's draft programme for government
In this week’s episode of Cargo of Bricks, as the draft programme for government finally emerges nearly five months after February, Dr Theresa Reidy a...
#InConversation - Brian O’Neill talks with Andrew Hill about what is going on in America?
Andrew Hill is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. Philip's College in San Antonio, Texas. In this podcast we talk about the recent race prote...
#CargoOfBricks 3: Prof Gary Murphy on government formation in Ireland
In this week’s episode of Cargo of Bricks, I’m talking with Professor Gary Murphy of Dublin City University about last February's tumultuous general e...
#CargoOfBricks 2: Graham Brownlow on economic recovery from #Covid19 must be long sighted and ambitious
In this week's episode of Cargo of Bricks, I'm talking with Graham Brownlow who is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Queens Management School in Belfa...
#InConversation Brian O'Neill talks with David Gavaghan about the economy & society after Covid-19
David is the founder of Founder Aurora Prime Real Estate Ltd. He was also the chair of CBI NI as well as the MAC Belfast. Amongst his previous roles w...
#CargoOfBricks 1: Ian Parsley on Northern Ireland's response to #Covid19
This week, Slugger Editor Mick Fealty spoke to Ian Parsley whose frequently updated blog you should definitely put on your reading list for its incisi...