Opinion

This week Uachtarán Shinn Féin Mary Lou McDonald and Leas Uachtarán Michelle O’Neill will be in the USA for the St. Patrick’s Day events. St. Patri...

Saint Patrick had a tough time of it dealing with the pagan Irish of the fifth century. Indeed, early Christian saints generally had a difficult ta...

For years I couldn’t bear to pass by the John Varvatos store on The Bowery. My psychic alarm bells would go off when I was within a couple of block...

This week’s column is dedicated to women. It includes a guest piece by Bairbre de Brún, former MLA and Minister. Wednesday, March 1, was Internatio...

As is frequently the case with haggling over the future of Northern Ireland different parties can see starkly different things....in the same thing...

About seven years ago, my wife and I participated in a Mass in San Antonio, Texas, where the main celebrant was a woman. We were part of about thre...

As this column goes to press it appears that the British PM Rishi Sunak and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, have reache...

After lengthy and seemingly tortuous negotiations the EU and UK have come up with a means, they hope, of dealing with the impasse over the Northern...

Brendan Behan would have celebrated his 100th birthday a couple of weeks back if he’d stayed alive. But that was hardly on the cards for a hell-rai...

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...