Opinion

Summer if off to its usual eventful start. There have been soaring and dipping temperatures in the Midwest and East, A tropical downpour that has f...

History will record that on the 27th day of June, 2012, Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin shook the hand of Queen Elizabeth, with the president of the...

Graeme McDowell didn't win the U.S. open last Sunday, and neither did Padraig Harrington. But they combined for the kind of Irish performance in a ...

There's more than a shade of E3 about the break that President Obama delivered last week for an estimated 800,000 young people in the U.S. who have...

Father Sean McManus ("Silence on North a grave moral lapse") seems to have a very one sided call for justice. He forgets the IRA victims (civilians...

Is a job, any job, preferable to the dole? For most people, the question probably is a no-brainer. Of course it's better to be working than to be o...

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[caption id="attachment_71823" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Bishop John Hughes. "][/caption] During the height of his tumultuous reign ...

There was something especially apropos about the New Deal. It was, for one thing, applied to the New World, that part of it called the United State...

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This op-ed is more question than opinion, though it focuses on two opinions, one belonging to the district attorney prosecuting the Boston College ...

You have to sympathize with the Irish Football Association, the governing body for soccer in Northern Ireland. The association, not for the first t...