I have given my good bike away. This marks a defining moment in my life. My good bike sat in the backyard for almost a year. That’s the last time I...

In March 1984 I was shot as I and four friends drove from Belfast Court. We were driving up May Street at the back of the City Hall when our car wa...

It’s the age we’re at. I tell myself and my declining peer group this as we attend funeral after funeral this last wee while. The great wheel of li...

Fr. Des Wilson died in November 2019. I first met him in 1968. His long life was dedicated to helping people. During the years of conflict, he stoo...

I first published this article in 2007 and then, slightly amended, in 2016. And again last year. We are only a wee while away from the local govern...

The inquest into the Stardust disaster opened in Dublin last week. The list of the dead from that terrible event in February 1981 is heartbreakingl...

Among those who attended the Easter Sunday commemoration in Belfast two weeks ago was John Montgomery. I haven’t seen John in many years and it was...

The 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement has attracted considerable national and international interest in recent weeks. Part of this invo...

I am writing this column in New York. Richard and I are here for the weekend working on my remarks for Monday night when President Bill Clinton and...

At the beginning of the month Jeffrey Donaldson established a panel, which includes Peter Robinson, Arlene Foster and some business and legal peopl...

Tuesday was the sixth anniversary of the death of my friend and comrade Martin McGuinness. I travelled to the Derry City Hotel that evening for a p...

This week Uachtarán Shinn Féin Mary Lou McDonald and Leas Uachtarán Michelle O’Neill will be in the USA for the St. Patrick’s Day events. St. Patri...