Opinion

For anyone who has driven in Ireland this is a familiar picture or memory. You have left the motorway and are driving on a two lane road with hills...

This column will be in Cork, le cuidiu Dia, to attend the National Hunger Strike Commemoration on Sunday. It’s the first time that this annual even...

At an out-of-state wedding recently, I fell into conversation with a cheerful gentleman whom I didn’t know from Adam. Or Eve for that matter. Upon ...

There's no stopping it of course. Time moves on and one generation gives way to the next. In recent years there has been much talk in America of "T...

The foundation of any country’s justice system is justice itself. Justice requires that individuals receive fair, impartial, and reasonable treatme...

In the course of almost 60 years of activism I have been very lucky to meet many wonderful, committed, compassionate republicans. On Saturday, in B...

In times of crisis, unionism still reverts to the Lundy principle and the predictable rhetoric it entails. In the siege of Derry in 1688 the Cathol...

One of the more encouraging aspects of contemporary congressional discourse is the fact that members of both parties can agree on issues of concern...

I had the privilege of attending many of the debates and discussions which are a unique and vital part of Féile an Phobail. Well done to all the pa...

Maggie Higgins may have been the most consequential American woman. When it comes to the change she wrought, they don’t come much more important th...

In a conversation last year between China’s President Xi and President Biden, the Chinese leader commented that democratic systems of government ar...

Back in 1999 the women's soccer World Cup came to America and a revolution was born. At that point in time the game was well established here for b...