Opinion

[caption id="attachment_67833" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="John Devoy."][/caption] John Devoy is on the verge of getting the tribute h...

This week, as we do this time every year, we pause to remember and honor those who have served the cause of America in uniform over the years, deca...

The Teddy Roosevelt advice to speak quietly but carry a big stick applied in every sense to Frank Durkan. Durkan, a consummate gentleman with a tra...

[caption id="attachment_67688" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Cardinal O'Malley."][/caption] Los indignados - the indignant ones - was th...

Well, so much for all that. Michael D Higgins will be the ninth president of Ireland after a campaign in which he was the favorite of the bookies a...

[caption id="attachment_67562" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="David Cameron"][/caption] The recent United States announcement that Anwar ...

I have always stressed during my 40 years as a public representative that the "Forgotten Irish" should be remembered at home for the support they s...

[caption id="attachment_67557" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Richard Haass"][/caption] I have met the Irish everywhere. From Britain to ...

[caption id="attachment_67552" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Dublin has its own version of Occupy Wall Street dubbed "Occupy Same Street...

Irish presidential candidate Sean Gallagher, a self-proclaimed independent despite his apparently long running Fianna Fáil pedigree, looks set at p...

[caption id="attachment_67423" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Daniel O'Connell. "][/caption] In his speech at College Green outside Trini...

In this issue we pay tribute to fifty standout men and women whose working lives are dedicated to the safety and security of their respective commu...