Opinion

More footage has emerged in recent days of the dramatic events of January 6, 2021, specifically the efforts of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senat...

Donald Trump is America’s strongman. On election night in November, 2020, he claimed that with over 70 million voters he had won the approval of a ...

I know Creeslough well. I have friends who live there. Outside the village. At both ends. My heart goes out to the families of the ten people who w...

Given what is happening in so many parts of the world, in Ukraine, where death rains from the sky, it is all the harder to understand sudden death ...

The Ospreys were still diving in Long Island Sound in early October. They’re usually long gone by now. It’s a hell of a journey to South America wh...

"Ireland’s Future" is well named. Its landmark event last Saturday in Dublin was all about the future. Saturday’s conference was an ambitious proje...

Not too many years ago we began to hear about Global Warming. If we were hearing it in the middle of a northeast winter that didn't sound all that ...

Last week’s census figures have generated acres of newsprint and headlines on its detail and implications. It is remarkable that a century after pa...

With the Passing of Queen Elizabeth, so too should the myth of the “Special Relationship.” Within minutes of the announcement of the death of Queen...

It's a good thing that Ireland doesn't border Russia, though unwelcome visits by Russian bombers and warships have been a reminder that Europe isn'...

Last week, the family of Loughlin Maginn settled a case against the British Ministry of Defence and the PSNI over his murder by the UDA in August 1...

Back where I came from few boys aspired to be Irish dancers. It would have been considered suicidal to trip daintily around the back streets of Wex...