Opinion

By Peter McDermott In a July 2007 speech to a gathering of trade unionists, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said: "Sitting on the sidelines, cribbing and mo...

By T.J. English Irish Americans and the Mexican people are attached at the hip. In many ways, the template laid down by Irish immigrants in the 19t...

By Earle Hitchner Nov. 17-23, 2010 The professional in me said I should steel myself, even distract myself during the time it would take to deliver...

By Peter McDermott It's nice to be ahead of the Times, to quote one part of a Newsday ad from many years ago. The Gray Lady caught up with the Rev....

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 ...