Opinion

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...

[caption id="attachment_70820" align="alignright" width="600" caption="Rory Staunton."][/caption] It's a line long used by newspaper reporters: "th...

[caption id="attachment_70707" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Marian Price. "][/caption] Marian Price is the only woman political prisone...

[caption id="attachment_70701" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Family man. Che Guevara with his children. "][/caption] There is fierce deb...

[caption id="attachment_70694" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Rick Santorum. "][/caption] It is hard to avoid the impression that the jou...

In a time of forced government spending cuts it is no surprise that U.S. overseas spending is coming in for particular scrutiny. It's as it should ...

[caption id="attachment_70561" align="alignright" width="600" caption="Meeting with some of Ireland's best friends in Congress."][/caption] It was ...

[caption id="attachment_70558" align="alignright" width="600" caption="Kilkenny House after Irene."][/caption] As Hurricane Irene was approaching t...