Opinion

“There’s only room for one genius in this family!” Brendan Behan is reputed to have remarked to Dominic, his younger brother. While Dominic Behan m...

Back in 2008, Barack Obama and John McCain were battling for the presidency. McCain, a Vietnam War hero and the Republican candidate, represented w...

ON Saturday night I was privileged to attend the oíche mhór Ghlór na Móna in Belfast’s City Hall. The event was to celebrate twenty years of this a...

Friedrich Nietzsche, the German philosopher considered the most brilliant thinker during the second half of the 19th century, favored strongman rul...

It is clear that the next occupant of the White House will have to play an outsize role in healing wounded peoples across the globe. On the issue o...

From my back porch I can see the corporate headquarters of Google, Meta, Apple and Nvidia. Not exactly, but I am a long time resident of Silicon Va...

Odd as it may seem, this presidential election is being fought between the normal and the weird, the logical and the fantastical, and the old and n...

IRISH Unity is the big idea that will positively transform society on this island. Its popularity is growing and the economic, political and social...

The polls suggest that there is at least a 50–50 chance that the electorate will choose a woman for the first time as president on November 5th. Th...

In Birmingham, Alabama last week for the inaugural Irish Roundtable in the Magic City hosted by Aisling Events, I thought back 16 years to the init...

It was, to say the least, a jarring contrast. Taoiseach Simon Harris was in Washington last week to celebrate a hundred years of diplomatic relatio...

“There are more things in heaven and on earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio.” Shakespeare’s Hamlet uttered these dramatic words cr...