Opinion

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 ...

They are often linked together by nationality, era, and musical intensity, yet it would be hard to think of two personalities less alike than Rory ...

The inquest into the Stardust disaster opened in Dublin last week. The list of the dead from that terrible event in February 1981 is heartbreakingl...

With the fighting getting worse in Khartoum the Irish government had to act. But act with what? Other countries, not least the United States, were ...

The two sides are so far apart in the war in Ukraine that there is no end in sight. President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated repeatedly that they wi...

So Joe Biden is running for a second term. That was the worst kept secret in Washington, and even less of a secret for anyone who kept a close eye ...

Among those who attended the Easter Sunday commemoration in Belfast two weeks ago was John Montgomery. I haven’t seen John in many years and it was...

At one point during President Joe Biden's four day visit to Ireland last week a commentator in one newspaper opined that the president was unlikely...

I possess two what I will call here “participation medals.” One, which came down directly to me a couple of generations, was for membership of a re...

IT was grin-and-bear it time for the majority community in the North of Ireland — and for the majority of Ulster University students — yesterday as...

President Joe Biden is in Ireland for four days this week. Some might say that Biden is always in Ireland one way or another. Certainly, Ireland, a...