Opinion

For ever and a day, and a few days more, it was "The Irish Question." The Irish themselves indeed had a few questions, but they weren't all about t...

As this column goes to print Boris Johnson comes to visit our political leaders in Hillsborough. Whatever he may say or not say one thing is clear....

All right! Hands up – who has been to Dundalk in the Wee County Louth? Not many, I’d suggest. I’ve only been there once and that was for a much nee...

The issues swirling around the North right now, its political, social and economic life, seems both new and familiar. There's Brexit and the Protoc...

On September 9, 1945 a cameraman of the United States Army Air Force entered the devastated city of Nagasaki in Japan with a group of American pres...

In the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, much has been written with reg...

It was never supposed to be like this. I watched with interest as one BBC presenter, reporting on the Assembly election results, told his largely B...

I was among the many “experts” convinced that Vladimir Putin would not invade Ukraine. Our thinking still seems logical: why would he attack the se...

The recent revelation by President General Michael Higgins of his agenda for the American Irish Historical Society is as regrettable as it is predi...

When all the votes were counted the view of the past gave way to a view into the future. Voters in Northern Ireland have made history with an Assem...

I first published this article in 2005 and again, slightly amended in 2016. It is dedicated to all candidates from all parties and none, and their ...

She was known as “the most dangerous woman in the world” and she reveled in the title. The poor and the dispossessed adored her. The rich and the p...