Opinion

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

While defending the United Mine Workers in an arbitration dispute in 1903, Clarence Darrow, the renowned left-wing attorney, extolled unions as “th...

It was a little good news on the defense front. Tánaiste Micheál Martin welcomed the highest intake in the Irish Defence Forces in six years. As re...

The year ahead of us, 2025, will see the departure from office of two presidents, the President of the United States Joe Biden, and the President o...

WELL done to all of those – 1,600 at the last count – who last week participated in the Hunger for Justice Fast/Troscadh ar son na Córa in support ...

Unlike most countries, the two large parties that dominate Irish politics were not formed along class lines. Their history goes back to a vote by d...

THE Northern Executive has taken welcome and decisive action to protect our environment, our health and jobs by committing to a ban on all forms of...

The message of Christmas since time immemorial has been on the lines of peace on earth and good will to all. The message is under siege around the ...

Back during the presidential campaign, which seems like a million years ago now, Kamala Harris was asked about including a Republican in her Cabine...

IT'S three weeks to Christmas. The decorations, inside and outside of the houses and shops and the Christmas trees in all their finery are everywhe...

I recently returned from a four-day visit to San Pedro Sula, the second-largest city in Honduras. I was accompanied by Vincent Collins, his wife Li...

The votes are in. They have been tallied and counted. The Irish voters have spoken. And in doing so they have, to a considerable degree, repeated t...