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
Opinion
A Growing Darkness
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...
February 11, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
Time for a New Gang
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...
February 04, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
Beyond The Pale
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...
January 28, 2026
by Leader Column