Opinion

Oh well, sometimes you have to take the lumps and the bruises. The Irish government is contemplating legal bumps and bruises after the Court of Jus...

THERE has been a significant increase in recent times in far right racist, Islamophobic and hate attacks on social media. The purpose of these has ...

Gustavo Gutierrez, the famous Peruvian theologian, defines poverty as “premature and unjust death,” explaining that “the poor person is someone who...

About seven in 10 Americans say they approve of labor unions. This is just points away from the record-high approval rating for organized labor, ac...

JD Vance's recent statements that the Irish immigrants fleeing the Great Hunger were responsible for higher crime rates is in the centuries old tra...

The G20 is an intergovernmental group of 19 powerful countries, plus European and African Union representatives, who meet annually to discuss a uni...

Immigration might not be a third rail in American politics but it is for sure a hot potato. It will be interesting to see if Kamala Harris and Dona...

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a vibrant Irish Parliamentary Party represented Irish nationalistaspirations and demands in Westminster....

Ireland, the Republic part of it, is a busy place these times with people coming and people going. But more are coming in according to the latest n...

Inflation is likely to be the main issue in the November elections. Not current inflation, now nearing the Fed’s desired two percent, but rather th...

August 19 was World Humanitarian Day. Most people in the world didn't notice. Some who did might have wondered where the humanitarian bit actually ...

This year, 2024, is being justifiably hailed as the year of elections. Almost half the world’s population lives in countries that will be voting th...