Opinion

Well the presidential and royal parties have both departed Irish shores, though it's fair to say that there is something of a warm afterglow that w...

The tornadoes that have been late causing terror and devastation in the nation's heartland have been frightening reminders of our vulnerability. Al...

I write this column on the day the Queen of England departs our shores and heads home, and two days before the President of the United States arriv...

Garret FitzGerald was a simple and a complicated man. By that I mean he had a habit, mischievous some would say, of making the complicated simple, ...

Even from a distance it was possible to sense that the past week in Ireland has been extraordinary. An English queen and an American president as b...

The great waves of immigration from Ireland to America were just beginning when in May, 1836 a group of Irish Catholic men in New York and Pennsylv...

If you know anything about the struggle for Irish freedom nearly a century ago, you ought to be more than a little skeptical of assertions that Pak...

The Queen of England will visit Ireland next week. The visit, the first by a British monarch since before the Easter Rebellion, is curious for its ...

I never considered myself a saint growing up in Southie, but neither did I ever expect to ever get to know two people who are saints. A few days ag...

If I was an American soldier that has served or is currently serving in Iraq or Afghanistan, I would give myself a well-deserved pat on the back. W...

The voters of Northern Ireland have spoken and a new Assembly is set to take its seats in Stormont. That the election campaign was completed by the...

Did you shed a tear while watching the prince and the commoner exchange vows in London the other day? Did you spent the next morning gossiping abou...