Opinion

About seven years ago, my wife and I participated in a Mass in San Antonio, Texas, where the main celebrant was a woman. We were part of about thre...

As this column goes to press it appears that the British PM Rishi Sunak and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, have reache...

After lengthy and seemingly tortuous negotiations the EU and UK have come up with a means, they hope, of dealing with the impasse over the Northern...

Brendan Behan would have celebrated his 100th birthday a couple of weeks back if he’d stayed alive. But that was hardly on the cards for a hell-rai...

As I write this column the rumors are rife that the European Commission and the British government are close to an agreement – maybe – on the Proto...

There are moments in history when we are required to pause and assess. Typically such moments coincide with great and global events, or the anniver...

"An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick" From William Butler Yeats’s poem "Sailing to Byzantium." I recall well an unlikel...

Republicans don’t say thank you often enough to each other. Fra McCann and Alex Maskey are fifty year activists. That is they have both been involv...

In the 1983 Bill Forsyth-directed movie "Local Hero," the character played by Burt Lancaster advises his young employee, MacIntyre, played by Peter...

The importance of the Moore Street 1916 Battlefield site was best summed up by Uachtarán na hÉireann Michael D Higgins who said: “This area belongs...

Eleanor Rigby changed it all for The Beatles. Up until then they had rarely strayed far from the conventions of pop music: boy meets girl, girl dum...

On any given day there are wars being waged around the world. On any given day nature can strike as if at war with humanity and our world. The reac...