Opinion

[caption id="attachment_71400" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Marian Price."][/caption] As driving rains and threats of a Nor'easter kept...

Ah, May, a most welcome month most years in that it is sufficiently removed from winter's cold and summer's heat in roughly equal measure. On the v...

[caption id="attachment_71260" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="The Titanic under construction at Harland and Wolff. "][/caption] The story...

[caption id="attachment_71257" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Ruairi Quinn."][/caption] School reform is one of the most-contentious issu...

The problem with a government trying to impose economic and/or social policy, at least in a democracy, is not infrequently politics cutting across ...

[caption id="attachment_71251" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Jack Lynch."][/caption] The approach of St Patrick's Day was, in my time as...

[caption id="attachment_71123" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Ciaran Bourke "][/caption] There are very few surprises left for me in the ...

There is discord in the Irish Catholic Church, tension between priests who live beside and converse with their parishioners and church leaders who ...

[caption id="attachment_70834" align="alignright" width="600" caption="Mary Robinson. "][/caption] 2011 resonated with voices demanding open and ac...

[caption id="attachment_70829" align="alignright" width="600" caption="Liam Quirke, Council Member Elizabeth Crowley and Minister Joan Burton at th...

Ireland's economic crisis has claimed another high-profile victim with the loss of one of the country's oldest electronics businesses. Peat's World...

[caption id="attachment_70823" align="alignright" width="600" caption="Tiger Woods."][/caption] Politics and sports have a good deal in common, whi...