Amid all the alarming reports of fires, floods and heat domes around the world in recent weeks and months there was a report that, in only a slight...

If you went back to the beginning of the just completed World Cup and asked yourself this question: "What in all of this is the golden goal? Well, ...

County Tyrone is sometimes referred to as "the hard country." This not in the context of scenery, but in the county's role over the centuries in Ir...

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...

"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...

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...

Detainees facing no formal charges going on hunger strike. Protestors outside the walls and barbed wire. Rubber bullets being fired at protestors. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...