Just in case you thought intra tribal rivalry had taken a back seat for the negotiations – Jeffrey Donaldson has been teasing his former colleagues on what he claims is their lack of new ideas. Discover more from Slugger O'Toole …

The leader of the DUP has said there is no rush for a settlement. Just how long is a matter for lengthy conjecture. In fact there is nothing in any negotiations timetable to prevent things dragging on until past the …

Getting Slugger transfered back to its home is likely to take a bit longer than we’d hoped – probably not until next Tuesday, when I hope to be blogging from Northern Ireland. We’ll keep you posted here of further progress …

Two articles from Chris Thornton and Gary Kelly foreground the inclusion of an IRA stand down in the upcoming negotiations between NI’s elected representatives. This potentially represents an important new strand to the current process.Previous emphasis upon the decommissioning of …

My own review of John Lloyd’s essay on Politics and the Media is due to be published next weekend. The man himself had an interesting line the cult of the journalist as celebrity in last week’s FT Magazine, after attending …

There has been from time to time fierce discussion here and on other NI blogs about what makes a blog and what doesn’t. Elsewhere this kind of discussion as taken second place to what individual bloggers can actually do. This …

George Kerevan notes the continuation of recruitment of IRA volunteers has continued long past the two ceasefires and the Belfast Agreement. But a successful conclusion to current negotiations, he believes, might see Sinn Fein recognising the PSNI and local youngsters …

RTE this morning marked the anniversary of the first IRA ceasefire with a retrospective from Belfast academics Paul Bew and Eammon Phoenix, and a report from their Northern editor Tommy Gorman highlighting the one consistent success story since that time …

Jessica Kuerten, (nee Chesney) has just jumped a clear round to tie with Britain’s Nick Skelton in Athens. At the very least it puts her in with a shout of winning a medal of some discription in tonight’s final. Irish …

Slugger finally got too big and cumbersome for our UK server yesterday. It is going to take a number of days to effect the transfer, especially given that we are going into a long weekend and our tech genious from …