Tánaiste Micheál Martin is due to visit the strife-torn Middle East this week. He knows the ground well. Back in 2009, as Minister for Foreign Affa...

Blessed are the peacemakers. If you can find them. And finding them in the world right now, especially in the Middle East and in the context of the...

The above headline could refer to any number of places around the world, not least the Middle East right now. But it actually refers to Lewiston, a...

So around and around we go, without inspiration, without end. As the House of Representatives plows through another exasperating week, as much of t...

It's hard not to feel down about the state of the world. It's hard not to worry that things might get even worse. War here, there and everywhere, c...

The Middle East is engulfed in violence. Again. The horrific attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas, the murder and kidnapping of innocent ...

The Irish Naval Service could do with some bigger boats. But more than that it could do with more boats of any size. And it could do with more men ...

The world returns to Manhattan this week for the annual gathering that is the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. For some, the visits ...

The New York Times described Megan Stack's Sunday, September 3 Opinion Section front page story as an "essay." Some essay. Stack, billed by the Tim...

As the British government barrels along towards passing its widely unwanted legacy bill, and before he set off for a visit to the Middle East, Tána...

For anyone who has driven in Ireland this is a familiar picture or memory. You have left the motorway and are driving on a two lane road with hills...

There's no stopping it of course. Time moves on and one generation gives way to the next. In recent years there has been much talk in America of "T...