Opinion

For those of us living in the north of Ireland the English Queen Elizabeth has been omnipresent in our lives for a long time. From our postage stam...

Here are edited remarks by President Joe Biden at a 9/11 commemoration at the Pentagon on Sunday, September 11. Twenty-one years ago - twenty-one y...

Amid the avalanche of coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth II there was an especially interesting observation by one royal commentator and biog...

Liz Truss is now the leader of the Conservative Party and British Prime Minister. No real surprise there. She is the fourth leader of the Tories in...

The great Shakespearean drama "Macbeth" issues a clear warning to power-hungry and unscrupulous leaders about the consequences of their actions. “T...

One of the interesting things about playing with Black 47 was that I became familiar with so many areas of the USA. By extension, I got a unique in...

The headline above the Fintan O'Toole column in the Irish Times did not make for comforting reading. It proclaimed: "Liz Truss will make Johnson se...

Hardly a week passes now without politicians, bloggers and columnists writing about Irish unity and calling on the Dublin government to establish a...

About five years ago, I attended a lecture in Manhattan by an Irish Redemptorist priest, Fr. Tony Flannery. The event was sponsored by Call to Acti...

The story of Irish immigration to America is just that - the story of Irish people migrating west across the Atlantic to the United States. It has ...

During the Féile I went to watch '\"The Troubles I’ve Seen" in Áras Úi Chonghaile. I’m glad I did. "The Troubles I’ve Seen" is a documentary which ...

I miss David Bowie. “Sure, what would the likes of you be doin’ hobnobbin’ with a superstar?” You might counter. Well, back in the late 1970s he bo...