Opinion

It could be a bowl of comfort in a sea of troubles. Then again.... With the Oval Office all of a sudden looking more like a ring, or an octagon, al...

ON Tuesday we buried our friend and comrade Brendan McFarlane. Bik texted me just two weeks or so ago to say he was back in hospital. He had been b...

In the messy and oft sordid affair that is global geopolitics you sometimes have to deal with the devil. But you don't have to embrace him. But, sa...

Editor: Renowned Irish folk band, The Druids, will set out on their 32nd tour of the United States at the end of February, bringing their captivati...

Editor: Ireland currently enjoys a relatively low corporate tax rate (12.5%) and a tax treaty with the U.S. This has created an incentive for U.S. ...

Quid pro Quo is all the rage in America at the minute. The Mayor of New York Eric Adams (below) got his. In return for joining Team Trump as water ...

Like many people from Ireland I support an English football team. As I brace myself for sneers of contempt curried by hollow words of patronizing p...

One thing that we are privileged to be able to do in these pages is cast an eye to both sides of the Atlantic, at government and governance in Irel...

ROSELEEN Walsh is one of 36 women who were interned in the early 1970s. Her latest book – My Internment – tells the very personal story of her life...

SIMON Harris has said that Irish unity is not a priority for him. That is self-evident. But for him to say so is at odds with the stated position o...

This is the final column submitted by Gerry O'Shea who passed away last month after a short illness. Over the course of many years Gerry enlivened ...

At one bloody point in the movie "Gladiator" Maximus turns to the baying crowd in the amphitheater and loudly asks "are you not entertained?" It's ...