Opinion

At the time of writing, it would appear certain that Libya's dictator, Colonel Muammar Qadaffi, a man with as many political lives as there are see...

The reports of the shoddy news reporting by Rupert Murdoch-run newspapers in England and Ireland and the regular violation of laws by reporters, is...

Despite all the recent shenanigans and ballyhoo in Congress over the debt ceiling and spending cuts, and though it be deepest August, the U.S. is p...

President Obama felt it necessary to remind the world that the United States is still a nation with a triple A rating. Lucky he wasn't thinking in ...

We mourn the loss of Governor Hugh L. Carey, a great Irish American, humanitarian, statesman and benefactor of America and Ireland. Our paths cross...

If somebody told you that Ireland was the most anti-Catholic country in the western world, you probablywould rush to get your hearing checked, righ...

And so, the last of the horsemen has cantered over the horizon. Hugh Carey, former governor of New York, and a member of a group of politicians who...

Thirty-nine years later, the guard dog wakes up and starts barking. So what's he barking at: the old event, or a new one? In 1972, a widowed mother...

Political opponents of Enda Kenny, especially Fianna Fáil leaders during the heyday of the late Celtic Tiger, were always inclined to dismiss the M...

They say no man is a prophet in his own land, and that's certainly true of Fr. Sean McManus, a fiery crusader for Ireland who has rattled more cage...

The battle over spending, taxation and debt that has dominated the headlines in recent days is nothing new in either Washington, or the nation beyo...

Clerical abuse is not a strictly Irish phenomenon. In recent years many thousands of victims in countries across the globe have spoken out against ...