Opinion

The Democratic Unionist Party could never be accused of an over-abundance of political and social imagination. Right from its birth in 1971 it has ...

I recall clearly a conversation with my uncle, Michael O'Shea, shortly after I came to New York in the early seventies. He and his older brother, P...

Somehow human beings, including this columnist, put more stead in twenty year anniversaries than in nineteen year ones. So in the case of Bloody Su...

Ireland and Russia are not on each other's buddy list of late. Fortunately for Russia, Ireland is not a military superpower. Fortunately for Irelan...

I watched an interview with Marty Walsh this week. He is the Secretary of Labor in Washington who started his working career with Laborers Local 22...

The drum beat and the chant echoed across the emptiness of Milltown Cemetery. Despite our heavy coats the January cold penetrated through to the bo...

What do you think of that whole D.C. Jan. 6th affair? Was it an insurrection or just a bunch of feisty tourists dropping by the People's House to p...

The email press heads up from the mayor's office was routine. It was Friday evening and the mayor had three engagements before calling it a day. Th...

I want to extend my deepest condolences to the family and friends of Ashling Murphy. The spontaneous public outpouring of grief at her murder under...

At one point during the months of Covid-19 lockdown I came across another side of branding and public relations. The lesson came courtesy of the Ir...

Back in the early years of the twentieth century the European military powers began to engage in a major arms race. That race would wind its way al...

A few months ago, my son-in-law, Jimmy Frawley, who lives in Dublin, brought two of his children, aged 10 and 15, on a weekend trip to Belfast. He ...