Opinion
EDITORIAL: Cup Runneth Over
Well, what to make of this World Cup. No Irish representation unless you count Cape Verde's Pico Lopes. And sure why not. Lopes and his extraordina...
July 08, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
America at 250
"In Congress, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes nece...
July 01, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
EDITORIAL: And The Next One Please.....
There's an old comic dig at the old time Soviet leadership standing stiff on the Kremlin Wall reviewing one of those interminable Moscow military p...
June 29, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Troubled Past Troubled Present
Detainees facing no formal charges going on hunger strike. Protestors outside the walls and barbed wire. Rubber bullets being fired at protestors. ...
June 15, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
EDITORIAL: More Equal Than Others
During her address a few weeks to the annual Sinn Féin Ard Fheis, party president Mary Lou McDonald lamented what she saw as an exodus from the isl...
June 03, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Remembering the Fallen
Each year, on Memorial Day, we honor those who have fought and died for America in wars here and around the world. We did so at the beginning of th...
May 27, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Highway Hoops
Last weekend saw another four fatalities on Irish roads in addition to a number of injuries. The headlines were all too familiar, all too depressin...
May 20, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
EDITORIAL: A Very English Mess
British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer must be feeling that the walls of Number 10 Downing Street are closing in on him. After the surge by the fa...
May 13, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
Editorial: Soldiers Not Pawns
The decision to pull 5,000 American military personnel out of Germany would appear to be more of a political slap than a strategic reassignment. Th...
May 06, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
EDITORIAL: An April Surprise
The decision by the U.S. to continue a financial contribution to the International Fund for Ireland is to be welcomed. Frankly, though, we are not ...
April 30, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
EDITORIAL: The Envoys of Irish America
The absence of a U.S. envoy to Northern Ireland is regrettable. But Irish America is, to a significant degree, filling the void. This was made evid...
April 22, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
EDITORIAL: The GFA at 28
Rome wasn't built in a day and the Good Friday Agreement is not going to turn Irish history on its head, even after 28 years. But the agreement has...
April 15, 2026
by Leader Column