Opinion

Reporters of a certain age will tell you of a time in the Northern Ireland conflict when words of condemnation scarcely had time to dry on the page...

Grace operates in strange ways, especially in explaining a revived appreciation of religion on the part of one of the most successful figures in th...

Ireland is about to be presented with a rare study in contrast: a back to back visit by a British queen and an American president. For those who ar...

By Peter McDermott In a July 2007 speech to a gathering of trade unionists, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said: "Sitting on the sidelines, cribbing and mo...

By T.J. English Irish Americans and the Mexican people are attached at the hip. In many ways, the template laid down by Irish immigrants in the 19t...

By Earle Hitchner Nov. 17-23, 2010 The professional in me said I should steel myself, even distract myself during the time it would take to deliver...

By Peter McDermott It's nice to be ahead of the Times, to quote one part of a Newsday ad from many years ago. The Gray Lady caught up with the Rev....

By Peter McDermott When is a knockout competition not a knockout competition? When it's the All Ireland football championship. In recent times, alo...

Among the myriad of decisions that New York voters will have to make on Nov. 2 is choosing who will preside at the office of New York State Comptro...

Robert ‘Bob’ Townes, 65, died on September 22. Born in Brooklyn and a resident of Groton, MA , Bob will be remembered by his family and an army of ...

Next Tuesday, New York's Democratic voters have an embarrassment of riches when deciding whom to choose to be the party's candidate for state attor...

It's back to school season, although increasingly teachers and students don't cut their ties over the long summer break. There are those, too, who ...