Slugger O'Toole
Weblog on Northern Ireland by commentator Mick Fealty / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Slugger O'Toole is a weblog started in June 2002 by political analyst Mick Fealty. It began life as Letter to Slugger O'Toole, focused primarily on news and comment about Northern Ireland. From the beginning it has drawn its readership from a wide spectrum of opinion[1] both inside and outside Northern Ireland.
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'Slugger' has developed a reputation as 'the watering hole of the political class in Northern Ireland.' It draws its regular contributors from a wide range of political perspectives including contributors with links to all of the main political parties as well as a number of 'independents'. Research commissioned in the summer of 2008 by Stratagem in association with ComRes revealed that 96% of the members of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLAs) read the blog "regularly" or "occasionally".
As of 2023 the site has published over 40,000 posts and over one and a half million comments on the site. Each month the site gets about 70,000 readers. The site is run by volunteers and has never had any paid staff. The site is reader supported and does not get any funding.