Brian O'Neill

How will you be celebrating this New Year’s Eve? A quiet night in? Some pints down the local? Cocktails in a fancy hotel? A line of two of cocaine? Maybe you are going on a bender with Charlie Lawson and Katie Price? It seems Ireland is awash with cocaine. According to a UN report, Irish people are joint-fourth highest consumers of cocaine globally. Every town and village in the country seems awash with the white stuff. I don’t get the …

Brian O'Neill on January 1, 2025, 8:03 am 0 Comments | Readers 0

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More signs of the end times as a DUP MP defends the Latin Mass. Traditionally, the DUP have been no fans of the Catholic Church, with Ian Paisley famously branding the Pope the Antichrist and some DUP members even questioning if Catholics are even Christians. From the BelTel: A veteran DUP MP and Orangeman is being hailed by right-wing Catholic traditionalists after he pressed the Westminster Government about its attitude to the Latin Mass. Strangford MP Jim Shannon — whose …

By Brian O'Neill When chaos strikes, as it did with the horrifying attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans early Wednesday morning, the

In addition to our normal open Sunday, we have a politics-free post to give you all a break. So discuss what you like here, but no politics. Comments will close at 12 pm on Monday. Brian O'Neill I help to manage Slugger by taking care of the site as well as running our live events. My background is in business, marketing and IT. My politics tend towards middle-of-the-road pragmatism, I am not a member of any political party. Oddly for …

The idea for Open Sunday is to let you discuss what you like. Just two rules. Keep it civil and no man/woman playing. Comments will close at 12 pm on Monday. Brian O'Neill I help to manage Slugger by taking care of the site as well as running our live events. My background is in business, marketing and IT. My politics tend towards middle-of-the-road pragmatism, I am not a member of any political party. Oddly for a member of the …

The sheen has rubbed off the Prince Charming of international politics with predictions that he will resign today. From the Guardian: The Globe and Mail newspaper cited three sources as saying that Trudeau, 53, would quit as head of the ruling Liberal party after nearly a decade in office. It said one of the sources had recently spoken to the prime minister and believed he intended to step down before an emergency meeting of party members on Wednesday, “so it …

You may remember that after being bucked out by the ungrateful voters of North Down, Stephen Farry got himself a new gig as Co-Director of the new Ulster University’s Strategic Policy Unit. He also got the title of professor, which I am sure the hard-working academics of UU who have to toil for years to get to that level will definitely not resent. Anyhoo, the first fruit of the new Think Tank Tree is a report entitled “A Focus on …

Ah, Christmas, a time of tradition. Carol services, Slade on the radio, stressed shoppers in M&S and the BBC’s Marie-Louise Connolly standing in a hospital A&E unit expressing grave concern as trolleys of patients on trollies pile up around her. At this stage, the annual A&E crisis is darkly farcical. I mean, who could predict winter? You know that season that happens every year? There has been a winter A&E crisis for at least the last 10 years, and we …