Opinion

Northern Ireland has been waiting for this. Waiting not just for the two years since the last Assembly election, but waiting since its very foundat...

Comhghairdeas Kneecap as an rath a bhí ar bhur scannán ag féile scannán Sundance. Last August I travelled over to a studio close to Queen’s Univers...

“You talk to me of nationality, language, religion,” Stephen Dedalus declared in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. “I shall try to fly by thos...

There's no doubt that what is going on in Gaza is horrific. There's no doubt that what triggered the Israeli invasion - that being the Hamas attack...

Well, it’s finally here – 2024, the year of the bitch! Rest assured, sisters, this has nothing to do with any gender-based slur, rather a recogniti...

The question – will he or won’t he – has yet to be answered. Will Jeffrey Donaldson provide the leadership needed to persuade his party to go back ...

The world is galvanized by the awful daily reports from Ukraine and Gaza, with the future direction of both conflicts very unsure. As American supp...

It was a verdict of sorts. One from on high. That at least was what many in Ireland, and in particular West Cork, were thinking after Ian Bailey, w...

The Vatican still names all of its important proclamations in Latin. Rather surprising, I suppose, considering that the now-esoteric language is st...

Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the west Bank passed the one hundred day mark at the weekend. By the time this column ...

"More than 1,000 journalists descend on Des Moines to cover the Iowa Caucuses." The headline from Editor & Publisher magazine tells us something; a...

“Any Irish person who’s not writing a memoir is a feckin’ eejit.” Frank McCourt was heard to proclaim when "Angela’s Ashes" became a bestseller. Bu...