Slugger O’Toole
Slugger O’Toole is a news and research portal, looking at various strands of political aspects of life in Northern Ireland. It brings together comment from a full range of the political spectrum that should be of interest to the specialist and the general reader.
Slugger runs on a blog technology, which allows us to connect audiences in Northern Ireland and throughout the world. From time to time we’ve created substantial debate in given areas. Our report on the future of Unionism created substantial debate both on and off line.
We have also pioneered direct on-the-ground blog reporting for the both the Assembly election of 2003 and the Westminster General Election of 2005, uincluding a live panel event with high profile journalists and commentators and fellow blogger Richard Delevan reporting directly to Slugger#s online readers.
We track parallel issues in the Republic of Ireland, Britain and the wider world, focusing on particular subject areas like the economy, cultural issues or the environment. The primary language of Slugger O’Toole is English, but from time to time we also blog in Irish.
Slugger has developed a reputation one of the hosting an (mostly) intelligent dialogue in Northern Ireland on range controversial and important issues.
Slugger O’Toole is edited and written by researcher and political analyst Mick Fealty, with a growing team of bloggers from across the political spectrum.
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