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
Opinion
EDITORIAL: So Which Way?
The world has arrived at one of those moments. It's not just to do with wars going on but rather to do with what goes on next in the matter of, wel...
April 08, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Ireland Arming Up
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...
April 01, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
The Closing Door
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...
March 25, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
Of War And War's Alarms
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...
March 18, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
Shamrock Summit
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...
March 11, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
Short, Long, Endless?
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 ...
March 04, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
Nothing Ventured....
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...
February 25, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
Rotten and Toxic
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...
February 18, 2026
by Leader Column