Opinion

ACCORDING to the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, his government is looking at “every conceivable way” to prevent me and at least 300 other peo...

There is that line in the song by The Who: "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss." Well, the words apply to Micheál Martin who once served as ta...

FIANNA Fáil and Fine Gael, supported by the regional independents, have just published their Programme for Government 2025. This contains the objec...

Hold on to your hats people. More importantly, hold on to your American dreams. By the time that most read this editorial Donald Trump will have be...

I AM not a big watcher of television. When I have my way – which is usually when everyone else is out – the TV goes on only when there is something...

A central tenet of colonialism highlights the superiority of the ruling power in all facets of cultural expression. So, in 19th-century Ireland, th...

The last week of being President of the United States is a little like packing for vacation with ten kids and a posse of pets. So much to do and th...

TED Howell was 77 when he died last Friday. On Tuesday we buried him in Milltown Cemetery in the grave of the love of his life, Eileen Duffy. The t...

Irish American author Timothy O’Grady finds the new Disney+ series too slight to be taken seriously. THE hit television series ‘Say Nothing’, curre...

The old Philips tube radio was my best friend in those Wexford boyhood days. It took a couple of minutes to warm up but then it delivered the sweet...

The bleak mid-winter was an unusual time for Taoiseach Simon Harris to unveil plans for a mammoth campaign in the U.S. to win over and influence th...

From Andersonstown News, 2 January 2025 I HAVE the flu. It’s a sign of my loyalty to you, dear reader, that I write this column in my sick bed. Bat...