The past couple of weeks have seen various newspapers and websites filled with the same shit from a number of politicians and parties who are just after what little publicity they can get, whilst showing themselves up as the discriminatory, biased and un-Christian and judgemental people they are. Belfast Pride, along with Gay Pride events [...]

Yesterday at Stormont, Belfast Pride held their ‘Pride on the Hill’ event, in which a panel of politicians spoke about their views and current legislation in Northern Ireland regarding the LGBT community and equality issues.

A number of people have referred to this week’s Assembly Election as the “Twitter Election”. This can be looked at in a number of ways: the number of politicians and parties on Twitter/Facebook, the number of journalists now using social media, as well as members of the public discussing politics and election through these online [...]

The TUV website was hacked yesterday evening by a Twitter user calling himself Hector O’Hackatdawn (@hectorohackatd). A brief, but clever and humorous message was left on the homepage of the website which led the party to take the site down for a short period replacing it with a brief message about an “illegal intrusion”.

What is AV The Alternative Vote (AV) is very much like First-Past-the-Post (FPTP). Like FPTP, it is used to elect representatives for single-member constituencies, except that rather than simply marking one solitary ‘X’ on the ballot paper, the voter has the chance to rank the candidates on offer. The voter thus puts a ‘1’ by [...]

What are the issues people of Northern Ireland are concerned with? This is the biggest topic coming out of the current election, particularly with young, and previously apathetic voters. Most people aren’t interested about the past, the Troubles, the tribal bullshit, but instead have a greater interest in the issues which affect them, you know, [...]

Last month the NI Assembly invited local “tweeters” for a guided tour of the Parliament Buildings, proving to be “the first legislature in the UK and Ireland to host a social networking event” — and apparently it was my idea! I have no problems admitting that I have very very limited knowledge of any sort [...]

Any ordinary citizen who feels that attending a mass rally is not the best thing to do in order to show your anger at recent acts of violence needs to be set straight. Several thousand people gathered today at Belfast City Hall to show solidarity and to pay their respects to 25-year-old Pc Ronan Kerr [...]

The funeral of Constable Ronan Kerr will be held on Wednesday at 12. The ceremony will take place in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, with burial in Drumduff cemetery. It is expected that many politicians will be present, including First Minister Peter Robinson and Taoiseach Enda Kenny. A large rally in anti-violence rally has [...]

Shortly before 4pm yesterday, 2nd April, a young police officer, Ronan Kerr, only 3 weeks out of training, was murdered as a bomb went off under his car when he opened the door. This atrocity has left much ill-feeling across Northern Ireland for the future. I found out after a quick glance at Twitter about [...]