Opinion

Senator Ted Cruz may well have started a ball rolling. The Texas Republican recently urged the Texas state bar to carefully consider the fitness of...

Back in 1969 when Bernadette Devlin outraged conservative Irish-America with her socialist views and support for African-American civil rights, did...

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...

Tánaiste Micheál Martin took renewed note of the undocumented Irish when he spoke at an Irish Consulate reception in New York last week during whic...

There is a new Kennedy associated with Irish affairs. With a nod to the past and a move toward the future, President Joe Biden recently selected 42...

This past fall, the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) released a report on Ireland’s growing far-right scene, pointing to the demon...

The roll-out of Britain’s leaving the European Union officially began with parliament's adoption of the 2020 Trading and Cooperation Act, but other...

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...

Saint Patrick had a tough time of it dealing with the pagan Irish of the fifth century. Indeed, early Christian saints generally had a difficult ta...

For years I couldn’t bear to pass by the John Varvatos store on The Bowery. My psychic alarm bells would go off when I was within a couple of block...

This week’s column is dedicated to women. It includes a guest piece by Bairbre de Brún, former MLA and Minister. Wednesday, March 1, was Internatio...

As is frequently the case with haggling over the future of Northern Ireland different parties can see starkly different things....in the same thing...