As the Northern Ireland football team look to their match away to Spain tonight knowing they must win to have even a chance of qualifying, the Irish Football Association picked up an award in Dublin last night marking the success of it's Football For All… more »

Last night in the markets area in Belfast a group of "about 20" protestors (I presume that's including the kids) disrupted a DPP meeting in south Belfast designed to give people there a voice and a chance to raise issues with and ask qustions of the poli… more »

It's been over a year since my original look at the Northern Ireland Delivery Rip-Off so, given the popularity of that post, I thought it was past time I looked at the whole matter again. The scenario is simple - I want a small computer peripheral or com… more »

Pudsey's new look for 2007. What have they done? Tonight's Children in Need night on BBC, but what the hell have they done to Pudsey? It looks like some wise-ass graphic designer has been let loose on him and decided to assault the poor thing. Clas… more »

In a proposal that could ultimately lead to the demise of one of the world's oldest Football Associations, FIFA's legal committee have suggested that there should be 2 notionally all-Ireland teams: one for Gaelic/Catholic nationalist and republicans and… more »

A woman who uses a mobility scooter to get around informed a meeting last night that two secondary school pupils had lit a banger and thrown it at the basket of her scooter as she was driving it through the park, with the aim of having it explode in the… more »

It's been in the pipeline for what seems like years, but 03 numbers have finally launched. "So what?" I can already hear you say. It might not seem that important, but 0844/0845 "local rate", 0870 "national rate" and more expensive 0871 numbers have b… more »

It looks like FIFA have ruled in the favour of the IFA [also here] in the ongoing poaching row, establishing a rare victory for common sense, following a complaint from the Irish FA. The FAI, organisers of football in the Republic of Ireland, have bee… more »

It's past time the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission was abolished. It was a waste of time and money when it was set up and it's a waste of time and money now. The Human Rights Commissioner Monica McWilliams helpfully demonstrated this point f… more »

Approximately 30 supporters from Bohemians, a Dublin football team, launched a sectarian attack on the Tavern; the last Protestant-owned city-centre bar in Londonderry west of the Foyle on Tuesday evening before a match with Derry City [BBC video report]… more »