Opinion

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...

For a variety of reasons, and sometimes no apparent reason at all, there has been chaos at world airports this summer. Dublin Airport is no excepti...

Congratulations to Antrim Ladies All Ireland Football Champions 2022 and Antrim’s All Ireland Camogie Champions. Na mná abú. Last Friday there was ...

After the crucifixion the fledgling movement of Christians commemorated the life and death of a man who had deeply impacted their lives and who the...

Suffice to say, the history of Russian jurisprudence could fill a book the size of "War And Peace." It would not make for encouraging reading. Russ...

Athenian democracy lasted about 250 years from the early seventh century B.C.E. It was a magnificently successful experiment, involving military do...