Opinion

Friends from far and near were in the Four Seasons Hotel in Monaghan last Saturday night for a special testimonial event for my old friend and comr...

So, who is Jerome Hayden Powell? He’s the 16th Chair of the Federal Reserve and he holds your future in his hands. Who elected him? No one, yet in ...

Business and community leaders from Ireland's northwest will be flying the Atlantic this week to attend the Golden Bridges conference in Boston. Go...

Last week I wrote about the threat posed to our world by climate change. The international climate change conference, COP27, which commenced in Egy...

I came to America on a student visa in the summer of 1968. I travelled with a college friend, Ignatius Coffey, who hails from Labasheeda in County ...

Once again the nations of the world, under the collective roof that is the United Nations, are assembling to tackle the advancing scourge of climat...

I recently spent a week in Ireland. I usually take a group over annually on a historical/musical tour, but because of the pandemic this was my firs...

This weekend the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 27 – the Conference of the Parties) will begin in Sharm El Sheikh, in Egypt. It will...

When John Healy, the great Irish Times columnist in the 1970s, faced covering a bewildering political situation in Ireland he would playfully plead...

Ah, here we are. Another election. An opportunity to jump up and down with joy as we one again exercise our democratic rights. Well, not entirely. ...

Conway Mill has been at the heart of West Belfast for over almost 200 years. First as a hard place of work for generations of local people, mainly ...

Another week another British Prime Minister. This week, for sure, a history making one in that Rishi Sunak is the first non-white and Hindu occupan...