Opinion

When the imperatives of the law clash with the dynamic push and pull of power politics, the result is often an unseemly public mess. In the 2000 pr...

Neil Young had the biggest head of any musician I’d ever met. I’m talking literally, of course, not figuratively. He came to see Black 47 in Paddy ...

What if Ireland was put in charge of the United Nations, the entire world, for let's say, a month? It's fair to say that the world at the end of th...

Some politicians rarely, if ever, see the irony in the words they use. Take Boris Johnson. He is currently using the dispute between the Ukraine an...

A recent Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman Report into the murders of 19 people between 1989-1993 by members of the paramilitary Ulster Defense Ass...

We’re a month out from St. Patrick’s Day and hopes are rising that this year we can actually celebrate the day in a manner that brings us back to t...

Once a person of consequence, the priest’s housekeeper appears to have slipped quietly into the past. She was mostly a rural Irish phenomenon, for ...

Collusion between British Intelligence, the RUC, UDR, British Army and Loyalist paramilitary organizations is a fact of life here. This is indisput...

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...