Opinion

I am recommending this new book, "Togáil Croí. Seán Mac Goill," by Seán Mitchell as a great Christmas present for you dear reader and for someone y...

The message of Christmas since time immemorial has been on the lines of peace on earth and good will to all. The message is under siege around the ...

Last Friday I travelled to Nenagh for the funeral of Shane MacGowan. It was a sad and yet joyous event with family and friends lifting their voices...

It was one of those moments you remember forever. I was standing stage-side at London’s Brixton Academy with Frank Murray, manager of The Pogues, S...

Just over a year go a prominent trio of diaspora voting rights activists wrote to Irish government ministers expressing their disappointment that t...

Shane MacGowan was a friend of West Belfast. Back in 1988, in the wake of the killings of IRA Volunteers Mairead Farrell, Dan McCann and Sean Savag...

Like many people who saw the repulsive images of violence from the recent Dublin riot, I felt a range of emotions: disgust, sadness, astonishment, ...

Some British politicians have recently hinted at denying Irish citizens their right to decide in a border poll whether Ireland should be unified. I...

The one thing you hope for when the nations of the world, most of them anyway, gather for a United Nations climate conference, is that they at leas...

I have met many loyalists over a very long time. In prison. Out of prison. In secret or in private talks going back to the 1970s. And many times si...

There were bars, and there were bars, and then there was The Village Pub. It perched atop Bainbridge Avenue in The Bronx. It was a small place owne...

There's no doubt that Ireland is one of the more dedicated members of the United Nations, one of the members that adheres most closely to the UN Ch...