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'NeillI help to manage Slugger by ...

Many of us will be glad to see the back of 2024 and let’s hope 2025 will be better for us all. I will leave you with the inspiring words of Enver Hoxha, the Albanian Stalinist dictator. In his 1967 ...

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 ...

Séimí Mac Aindreasa is from the Shaws Road Gaeltacht in Belfast. His stories have been published in three anthologies and online. There is an English translation of this tribute below: Blianta fada ó ...

Something different for New Year’s Eve. I have been meaning to put together a frequently asked questions for years and have never got around to it. So if you are curious about how Slugger works ask ...

Arnold Carton recently had an excellent OP up comparing Donald Trump to Julius Caesar and noting that there is sometimes no turning back from Republican to dictatorial Imperial rule. Another less ...

There maybe something poetic that in the dying days of a Democratic Presidency, a former Democratic President passes away, but it is no less sad for the poignancy of the symbolism. President Jimmy ...

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.

You will have heard about a famous politician who is notorious for his lavish lifestyle and licentious behaviour. He had multiple affairs outside his marriages, sometimes with the wives of other ...