Opinion

When John Healy, the great Irish Times columnist in the 1970s, faced covering a bewildering political situation in Ireland he would playfully plead...

Ah, here we are. Another election. An opportunity to jump up and down with joy as we one again exercise our democratic rights. Well, not entirely. ...

Conway Mill has been at the heart of West Belfast for over almost 200 years. First as a hard place of work for generations of local people, mainly ...

Another week another British Prime Minister. This week, for sure, a history making one in that Rishi Sunak is the first non-white and Hindu occupan...

We are probably not all listed here in proper chronological order. I rarely get anyone’s birthday right. It’s hard to keep track. We are now reduce...

It’s not often you open your mailbox and find a picture of you taken 45 years ago, especially when it’s the cover of an album you’d recorded back i...

More footage has emerged in recent days of the dramatic events of January 6, 2021, specifically the efforts of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senat...

Donald Trump is America’s strongman. On election night in November, 2020, he claimed that with over 70 million voters he had won the approval of a ...

I know Creeslough well. I have friends who live there. Outside the village. At both ends. My heart goes out to the families of the ten people who w...

Given what is happening in so many parts of the world, in Ukraine, where death rains from the sky, it is all the harder to understand sudden death ...

The Ospreys were still diving in Long Island Sound in early October. They’re usually long gone by now. It’s a hell of a journey to South America wh...

"Ireland’s Future" is well named. Its landmark event last Saturday in Dublin was all about the future. Saturday’s conference was an ambitious proje...