Opinion

"I’m going up the country, Baby, don’t you wanta go, Going to take you some place, Where you’ve never been before, I’m going, I’m going, Where the ...

In March 1984 I was shot as I and four friends drove from Belfast Court. We were driving up May Street at the back of the City Hall when our car wa...

The opposition to the British government's determination to see full passage and implementation of the legacy bill for Northern Ireland. Last week ...

It’s the age we’re at. I tell myself and my declining peer group this as we attend funeral after funeral this last wee while. The great wheel of li...

Can one do evil acts without being evil? This was the deep and puzzling question raised by the philosopher Hannah Arendt when she reported for The ...

Each year we honor those who have fought and died for America in wars here and around the world. There have been many wars, great and small. There ...

Pierce Turner and I used to share a flat in an old town house in Rathmines, Dublin. Once very upscale, the area had fallen on hard times and was di...

Fr. Des Wilson died in November 2019. I first met him in 1968. His long life was dedicated to helping people. During the years of conflict, he stoo...

All politics is local. So the saying goes. In Northern Ireland's local elections this week local could indeed be described as all politics. Because...

Liam Lynch was killed by the Free State army in the Knockmealdown Mountains in Tipperary on April 10th a hundred years and one month ago. Lynch, a ...

I first published this article in 2007 and then, slightly amended, in 2016. And again last year. We are only a wee while away from the local govern...

A few weeks ago the Boston Globe announced that it was expanding its news coverage in New Hampshire. Granted, there are more than a few Bostonians ...