Opinion

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 ...

By all accounts, Rupert Murdoch loves newspapers. And that makes me want to love him, because you can be sure that his advisors, and even his own c...

Taoiseach Enda Kenny's extraordinary broadside at the Vatican would have been unthinkable in Ireland just a handful of years ago. It certainly stan...

Mr. Modest didn't come all the way from County Down to break up fights on the Lower East Side. He came to play soccer on a college scholarship. Act...

A few weeks ago, the federally run National Assessment of Educational Progress issued its latest "report card" on civics education in the United St...

Radical elements in Ireland must be envying the riotous opposition in the streets of Athens to the Greek government's "capitulation" to the Europea...

He took his time, but he sure chose his moment. Darren Clarke capped a professional golfing career of more than twenty years in the most majestic w...

In some of the stories about his discovery and arrest, mobster Whitey Bulger was described as "legendary" and "colorful." One newspaper described B...