Opinion

When the weather is bad in Ireland, that is to say when it is bad on a sustained basis, people often muse on the idea of what living on the island ...

[caption id="attachment_71406" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Elbridge Gerry."][/caption] Elbridge Gerry was one of the founding Fathers,...

[caption id="attachment_71403" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Fenway Park"][/caption] I haven't seen Bostonians this distressed in many, ...

[caption id="attachment_71400" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Marian Price."][/caption] As driving rains and threats of a Nor'easter kept...

Ah, May, a most welcome month most years in that it is sufficiently removed from winter's cold and summer's heat in roughly equal measure. On the v...

[caption id="attachment_71260" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="The Titanic under construction at Harland and Wolff. "][/caption] The story...

[caption id="attachment_71257" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Ruairi Quinn."][/caption] School reform is one of the most-contentious issu...

The problem with a government trying to impose economic and/or social policy, at least in a democracy, is not infrequently politics cutting across ...

[caption id="attachment_71251" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Jack Lynch."][/caption] The approach of St Patrick's Day was, in my time as...

[caption id="attachment_71123" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Ciaran Bourke "][/caption] There are very few surprises left for me in the ...

There is discord in the Irish Catholic Church, tension between priests who live beside and converse with their parishioners and church leaders who ...

[caption id="attachment_70834" align="alignright" width="600" caption="Mary Robinson. "][/caption] 2011 resonated with voices demanding open and ac...