Opinion

EDITORIAL Four More Years Senator for the Diaspora Billy Lawless was frustrated by his inability to vote as a member of Seanad Eireann in the recen...

There was a time when the object of the exercise was to make as much of the global map as possible be England. Those who take an interest in histor...

The return of devolved government and power sharing in Northern Ireland is to be warmly welcomed. The North had been without a functioning Executiv...

Malachy McAllister has been here before. All too many times. One again the Belfast man is looking at America’s door with the big exit sign over it....

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin stands on the Moon's surface near the leg of the Lunar Module “Eagle” during the Apollo 11 moonwalk. Reflect for a moment, if...

President Donald Trump will this week become the seventh serving American president to make landfall in Ireland. Suffice it to say, this visit prom...

Unlike his still mysterious chat with Vladimir Putin, President Trump’s sit down with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in Shannon Airport is likely to make i...

It’s a good idea to take a deep breath these days when the subject is climate. But hold that one. Perhaps not too deep. Latest scientific figures s...

The world has always been a dangerous place for journalists. For the most part this has been due to the fact that journalists often find themselves...

This was a headline last week in the London-published Daily Telegraph: “Brexit latest news: Angela Merkel throws Theresa May a lifeline as she insi...

These are worrying days for Malachy McAllister and the group of his fellow Irishmen known collectively as “the deportees.” McAllister, for one, has...

Ordinarily, the arrival of April in the northern hemisphere is a time of rejoicing for the meteorologically burdened. We welcome spring. Nobody was...