Internment was introduced 52 years ago next month on August 9, 1971. In the early hours of that morning 342 men and boys from nationalist homes acr...

Two successful events on the future of Ireland were held in Belfast and Dublin last week. The atmosphere and enthusiasm at both events was mighty. ...

Last June, Micheál Martin, the then taoiseach, attacked the decades long neutrality policy of the Irish state. He claimed that; “We need to reflect...

The threat of demolition to parts of the Moore Street Terrace, a place that played a central role in the Easter Rising, has increased significantly...

St. Comgall’s/Ionad Eileen Howell in Divis Street will be formally opened next week, on Thursday, June 22. The multi-million pound project has been...

I have given my good bike away. This marks a defining moment in my life. My good bike sat in the backyard for almost a year. That’s the last time I...

In March 1984 I was shot as I and four friends drove from Belfast Court. We were driving up May Street at the back of the City Hall when our car wa...

It’s the age we’re at. I tell myself and my declining peer group this as we attend funeral after funeral this last wee while. The great wheel of li...

Fr. Des Wilson died in November 2019. I first met him in 1968. His long life was dedicated to helping people. During the years of conflict, he stoo...

I first published this article in 2007 and then, slightly amended, in 2016. And again last year. We are only a wee while away from the local govern...

The inquest into the Stardust disaster opened in Dublin last week. The list of the dead from that terrible event in February 1981 is heartbreakingl...

Among those who attended the Easter Sunday commemoration in Belfast two weeks ago was John Montgomery. I haven’t seen John in many years and it was...