It didn't enter the conversation over the shamrock in the Oval Office on Saint Patrick's Day but Ireland is heading down a path that will see the n...

A few days ago Saint Patrick's Day was celebrated from coast to coast. The day that's in it is a gift from Ireland, more specifically immigrants wh...

The line above is from "Politics" by William Butler Yeats. It's a short poem that sets the writer's priorities straight. Forget politics and forget...

The first shamrock summit took place on a summit - literally. That would have been, as the story goes, the fifth century encounter between Saint Pa...

When a democracy finds itself in a war it has to speak and explain to its own people. But what you say to your own people and what you say to your ...

The upcoming visit to the White House on St. Patrick's Day by Taoiseach Micheál Martin could end up being, well, take your pick. There has been con...

Further proof, if it was needed, but we have been reminded how rotten and toxic is the current regime in Moscow. Literally toxic in the case of the...

Atop the front page of the Washington Post is the assertion that Democracy Dies in Darkness. This is somewhat limited. Democracy can die in broad d...

This is an anxious time in the history of the land of the free home of the brave. All too many of those who would find freedom in a new land are no...

The video evidence of the latest ICE shooting in Minneapolis is truly sickening. And once again the words from the federal government do little mor...

At the risk of confusing a situation that is already deeply confused (and being facetious to boot) perhaps this is a moment for Ireland to claim so...

They say you should not speak ill of the dead. Well, in these fraught times, speaking ill of the dead is becoming standard U.S government behavior....