Opinion

The democratic question remains the key issue internationally. It has been so since people asserted their right to citizenship. At the heart of tha...

The visage and voice of Yury Anatoliyevich Filatov are a familiar combination in Ireland of late. Filatov, of course, is Russia's ambassador to Dub...

Daniel Patrick Moynihan was born in March and died in March, the month of Irish Heritage. Bill Cunningham, who served as the senator's chief of sta...

On 1 April 1970 the Ulster Defence Regiment formally took its place in the ranks of the British Army. The UDR was a locally recruited militia estab...

I recall well a moving story that Maurice Brick, author and fluent Gaelic speaker, told me many years ago. He comes from the heart of the Ballyferr...

Ireland might be on the other side of Europe from war ravaged Ukraine. But distance doesn't mean remoteness. Like it or not the war is looming larg...

About 20 minutes into the musical "Paradise Square" a piece of unscripted magic occurs on the dance floor of a bar in New York City’s Five Points. ...

One unionist twitter account at the weekend posed the question; “How many different ways can the DUP tell us we MUST vote DUP no matter how incompe...

A month into Russia's war against Ukraine we are witnessing an unfolding catastrophe that is steadily becoming more global in its reach. Ukraine is...

If ever there was a moment in time that we needed the spirit of St. Patrick's to be abroad in the world it is now. The events of recent weeks in Uk...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to dominate the news agenda. Lines of tanks and armored vehicles inexorably move toward Kyiv and other Uk...

I attended the annual commemoration of the untimely deaths in 1832 of 57 Irish laborers who worked and died at a stretch of railway track in Cheste...