Opinion

By Peter McDermott When is a knockout competition not a knockout competition? When it's the All Ireland football championship. In recent times, alo...

Among the myriad of decisions that New York voters will have to make on Nov. 2 is choosing who will preside at the office of New York State Comptro...

Robert ‘Bob’ Townes, 65, died on September 22. Born in Brooklyn and a resident of Groton, MA , Bob will be remembered by his family and an army of ...

Next Tuesday, New York's Democratic voters have an embarrassment of riches when deciding whom to choose to be the party's candidate for state attor...

It's back to school season, although increasingly teachers and students don't cut their ties over the long summer break. There are those, too, who ...

The New York Times conservative columnist Ross Douthat penned a characteristically nuanced contribution on the question of the Park Place center 10...

By Martin McGuinness Derry is my home town and I have a special interest in this competition (which seeks to choose the UK City of Culture 2013). I...

As if things weren't bad enough for the travel the airline business but a volcano in Iceland decided to wake up after almost two hundred years and ...

The Northern Ireland peace process has never been a smooth process. It has stopped and started, stumbled and hesitated. There have been times when ...

The new GAA season has opened at Gaelic Park in the Bronx and three cheers for that. Three cheers indeed for the return of Gaelic games wherever th...

I read with interest the piece written by Des MacHale, “Maureen O’Hara deserves Oscar for life’s work.” It is true, Maureen may have been passed ov...

By Ray O'Hanlon I’m chasing my tail each and every day with regard to technology. I work with a computer, yes, use email, yes. In terms of the glob...