Opinion

As I write this column the rumors are rife that the European Commission and the British government are close to an agreement – maybe – on the Proto...

There are moments in history when we are required to pause and assess. Typically such moments coincide with great and global events, or the anniver...

"An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick" From William Butler Yeats’s poem "Sailing to Byzantium." I recall well an unlikel...

Republicans don’t say thank you often enough to each other. Fra McCann and Alex Maskey are fifty year activists. That is they have both been involv...

In the 1983 Bill Forsyth-directed movie "Local Hero," the character played by Burt Lancaster advises his young employee, MacIntyre, played by Peter...

The importance of the Moore Street 1916 Battlefield site was best summed up by Uachtarán na hÉireann Michael D Higgins who said: “This area belongs...

Eleanor Rigby changed it all for The Beatles. Up until then they had rarely strayed far from the conventions of pop music: boy meets girl, girl dum...

On any given day there are wars being waged around the world. On any given day nature can strike as if at war with humanity and our world. The reac...

The census figures for Northern Ireland released last September show Catholics, broadly understood, at 45.7%, and Protestants, or people brought up...

The recent cold snap and the sniffles of many of my associates reminded me of when I was a young curate in The Duke of York pub in Commercial Court...

A new Congress and an old issue: comprehensive immigration reform. Reform as an issue and question has been with us for decades now. The last time ...

:Terry Hall passed away recently. “Terry who?” You might say. Perhaps, it would ring a bell were I to say Terry Hall, singer with The Specials? Ter...