Opinion

On September 9, 1945 a cameraman of the United States Army Air Force entered the devastated city of Nagasaki in Japan with a group of American pres...

In the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, much has been written with reg...

It was never supposed to be like this. I watched with interest as one BBC presenter, reporting on the Assembly election results, told his largely B...

I was among the many “experts” convinced that Vladimir Putin would not invade Ukraine. Our thinking still seems logical: why would he attack the se...

The recent revelation by President General Michael Higgins of his agenda for the American Irish Historical Society is as regrettable as it is predi...

When all the votes were counted the view of the past gave way to a view into the future. Voters in Northern Ireland have made history with an Assem...

I first published this article in 2005 and again, slightly amended in 2016. It is dedicated to all candidates from all parties and none, and their ...

She was known as “the most dangerous woman in the world” and she reveled in the title. The poor and the dispossessed adored her. The rich and the p...

Politics in Northern Ireland could be turned on its head this week. And that's just the politics. Add in the Good Friday Agreement, Brexit and the ...

Just a couple of weeks ago, on April 14, media outlets were showing dramatic images of the USS The Sullivans, a World War II destroyer that was on ...

It's the final countdown to polling day and the pundits and pollsters are filling the airways and column inches with their take on who will be the ...

By far the biggest difference between the two main political parties in America resides in their differing approaches to the threat of global warmi...