Opinion

It was comforting reading. Ireland came out as the third most peaceful country in the world in a recent survey. Cold comfort for the American touri...

Two weeks ago Niall O’Dowd, founder of the Irish American newspaper The Irish Voice, announced that it was to close after 36 years. The New York-ba...

People in southern Spain and Italy are being advised to stay indoors this week. Fires and floods are wreaking havoc across the globe. And we had th...

The Christian Brothers in Wexford were not fans of the Normans. They regarded these conquerors who arrived from Wales in 1169 as some subspecies of...

Internment was introduced 52 years ago next month on August 9, 1971. In the early hours of that morning 342 men and boys from nationalist homes acr...

There is no better time than now to invite our global family home to enjoy the fruits of the peace they helped create in Belfast - and nowhere bett...

You sometimes wonder what it takes to tell an ambassador from another country to pack the bags and take a hike. In the case of Yury Anatoliyevich F...

Two successful events on the future of Ireland were held in Belfast and Dublin last week. The atmosphere and enthusiasm at both events was mighty. ...

Looking back on the seventies, the greatest divide, I suspect, between the Irish of the North of Ireland and the Irish of America was in their atti...

The Berkeley Library in Trinity College Dublin was built in the late 1960s and in 1978 it was named after one of its famous graduates, George Berke...

"Dangerous plumes of smoke disrupting activity as air pollution pesters people across Canada.' That was an online headline in the Toronto Globe and...

So Paddy Reilly’s has reopened. Welcome back. Though your absence was short, you were missed. It’s not just that New York City is daily becoming le...