Opinion

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...

I want to recommend that you make friends with a tree. Any tree. Pick one in your local park or glen or up on a mountain. Get up close and friendly...

There has been much hand-wringing in top German political circles over the matter of supplying Ukraine with German-made Leopard tanks. Suffice it t...

Some readers may remember the Stonewall riots that took place in Greenwich Village in June, 1969. The Stonewall Inn was one of a number of bars, mo...

I considered ignoring the British government’s exclusion of the Sinn Féin President from the recent talks. Then I thought why should I? Stupidity l...

I'm proud to be joining Eugene O'Flaherty and John Donovan of Boston as a founding partner of the North Ireland Growth Fund, which is raising $100 ...