Opinion

At one point during President Joe Biden's four day visit to Ireland last week a commentator in one newspaper opined that the president was unlikely...

I possess two what I will call here “participation medals.” One, which came down directly to me a couple of generations, was for membership of a re...

IT was grin-and-bear it time for the majority community in the North of Ireland — and for the majority of Ulster University students — yesterday as...

President Joe Biden is in Ireland for four days this week. Some might say that Biden is always in Ireland one way or another. Certainly, Ireland, a...

I am writing this column in New York. Richard and I are here for the weekend working on my remarks for Monday night when President Bill Clinton and...

The Good Friday Agreement was remembered, saluted and tasked with even more work in the years ahead at a grand gathering Monday evening at Cooper U...

At the beginning of the month Jeffrey Donaldson established a panel, which includes Peter Robinson, Arlene Foster and some business and legal peopl...

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...