Opinion

I REMEMBER Father Des Wilson many moons ago lamenting the narrowness of streets in Turf Lodge and Ballymurphy. “The City Planners don’t think the w...

I have no idea who is going to win this election. Neither does anyone else, really. As I mentioned a few weeks back in The Hill, I do believe Donal...

A recent study examining party affiliation among adults in the United States revealed that the biggest slice of the electorate, 43%, define themsel...

“There’s only room for one genius in this family!” Brendan Behan is reputed to have remarked to Dominic, his younger brother. While Dominic Behan m...

Back in 2008, Barack Obama and John McCain were battling for the presidency. McCain, a Vietnam War hero and the Republican candidate, represented w...

ON Saturday night I was privileged to attend the oíche mhór Ghlór na Móna in Belfast’s City Hall. The event was to celebrate twenty years of this a...

Friedrich Nietzsche, the German philosopher considered the most brilliant thinker during the second half of the 19th century, favored strongman rul...

It is clear that the next occupant of the White House will have to play an outsize role in healing wounded peoples across the globe. On the issue o...

From my back porch I can see the corporate headquarters of Google, Meta, Apple and Nvidia. Not exactly, but I am a long time resident of Silicon Va...

Odd as it may seem, this presidential election is being fought between the normal and the weird, the logical and the fantastical, and the old and n...

IRISH Unity is the big idea that will positively transform society on this island. Its popularity is growing and the economic, political and social...

The polls suggest that there is at least a 50–50 chance that the electorate will choose a woman for the first time as president on November 5th. Th...