Opinion

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Ireland's economic crisis has claimed another high-profile victim with the loss of one of the country's oldest electronics businesses. Peat's World...

[caption id="attachment_70823" align="alignright" width="600" caption="Tiger Woods."][/caption] Politics and sports have a good deal in common, whi...

[caption id="attachment_70820" align="alignright" width="600" caption="Rory Staunton."][/caption] It's a line long used by newspaper reporters: "th...

[caption id="attachment_70707" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Marian Price. "][/caption] Marian Price is the only woman political prisone...

[caption id="attachment_70701" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Family man. Che Guevara with his children. "][/caption] There is fierce deb...

[caption id="attachment_70694" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Rick Santorum. "][/caption] It is hard to avoid the impression that the jou...

In a time of forced government spending cuts it is no surprise that U.S. overseas spending is coming in for particular scrutiny. It's as it should ...

[caption id="attachment_70561" align="alignright" width="600" caption="Meeting with some of Ireland's best friends in Congress."][/caption] It was ...

[caption id="attachment_70558" align="alignright" width="600" caption="Kilkenny House after Irene."][/caption] As Hurricane Irene was approaching t...

Capt. Hugh Francis Larkin. In December 1951, uniformed men arrived at my father's home and told my grandfather that his son, Capt. Hugh Francis Lar...

There have been times over the years when Irish politics has been about as exciting as a rainy day in November. Voters have tired peering through t...