Opinion

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...

Photo: rollingnews.ie We are long familiar with all the bonhomie and backslapping associated with the annual St. Patrick and shamrock celebrations ...

We are long familiar with the “Irish Question” though there are times, and there have been many of us in those times, who are not quite sure what t...

And so another year takes its final few steps into the history books. Most will be sad to see it go, imperfect though it might have been. Time was ...

Given that it was Thanksgiving the 55th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy passed with relatively little coverage. Such ...

Regardless of who wins what in the world’s political life we can be sure of one thing: life on earth will suffer. In recent days Brazilian voters, ...

Michael D. Higgins is poised to serve another seven years as Irish president. That’s just fine. He has done a pretty good job in his first seven ye...

Ireland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Simon Coveney, delivered Ireland’s address to the recent opening of the United Nations General As...