Opinion

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...

In his final moment, Osama Bin Laden must have known that the United States had finally caught up with him. This will be a matter of grim satisfact...

Here's what they died for. The right not to wear a prison uniform; the right not to do prison work; the right of free association with other prison...

By John McCarthy Irish Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn has asked that the Catholic Church be divested of half of the 3,000 national schools in ...

By the middle of Easter Week 1916 it was evident to any impartial or detached observer that the odds were stacking up by the hour against the men a...

Despite the broadly held view of Ireland being largely a Catholic country with an education system dominated by the Catholic Church, the Republic t...

Everybody sooner or late passes through Ireland. It's like the weather. Just about every meteorological manifestation lands on, or passes over the ...

A friend of mine was at Mass on the morning of April 12 in Charleston, South Carolina, when he heardwhat sounded like cannon fire nearby. It was pu...