Opinion

The posting online of a vile video showing members of the Orange Order mocking the murder of Michaela McAreavey has been widely condemned. Last wee...

As reported last week, Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill has called for an Executive to be formed and said the DUP’s stand-off is with the public, not t...

So, The Boardy Barn in Hampton Bays, Long Island is no more. I can hear silent tears dripping into pint mugs all over BBQ. You don’t know what BBQ ...

Last week, U.S. Congress member Richie Neal, chair of the Ways and Means Committee on Capitol Hill, led a congressional delegation from Washington ...

102 years ago, James Craig, the first prime minister in the new statelet with Belfast as its capital, proclaimed that his parliament was designed t...

The political forces gathering energy and swirling around the Northern Ireland Protocol would remind you of the meteorological forces that form to ...

Sunday, May 22, marked 24 years from the historic referendum in May 1998 that saw almost three quarters of people in the North vote in support of t...

Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Senator Edward Kennedy. President John F. Kennedy. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy. Mayor John “ Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald. I ...

For ever and a day, and a few days more, it was "The Irish Question." The Irish themselves indeed had a few questions, but they weren't all about t...

As this column goes to print Boris Johnson comes to visit our political leaders in Hillsborough. Whatever he may say or not say one thing is clear....

All right! Hands up – who has been to Dundalk in the Wee County Louth? Not many, I’d suggest. I’ve only been there once and that was for a much nee...

The issues swirling around the North right now, its political, social and economic life, seems both new and familiar. There's Brexit and the Protoc...