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Page Turner / By Peter McDermott The protagonist in Yvonne Cassidy’s second novel “What Might Have Been Me” has a decision to make that is a famili...

By Peter McDermott Fifty years ago, America had a president who was greeted rapturously wherever he went in Latin America and Europe. The reaction ...

By Orla O’Sullivan Brían F. O’Byrne, the Cavan native and longtime L.A. resident, is back in New York for a play, which is funny because he gave up...

Theatre / By Orla O'Sullivan “It’s a Wonderful Life: The 1946 Radio Show” * Adapted by Anthony E. Palermo from Frank Capra’s film * Directed by Cha...

By Peter McDermott Call it Martha Raddatz syndrome. It’s the belief held by some media professionals that there’s something broken in Social Securi...

“The Black Box” by Michael Connelly; published in hardback by Little, Brown and Company; 416 pp.; $29.99. By Seamus Scanlon In Michael Connelly’s 2...

Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott The reviews are in for “The Black Box” and they agree: Michael Connelly is not resting on his laurels. His ...

Between the Lines / By Peter McDermott My father would tell us kids about Christmastime in his small town in the West of Ireland. He'd build the sc...

By Peter McDermott The Rev. James Martin was being interviewed by telephone last week when he heard a huge noise. “It sounded like thunder,” he rec...

Published in the Irish Echo on Oct. 31, 2012 Between the Lines / By Peter McDermott Mitt Romney got into trouble not once, but twice in 2012 with c...

By Peter McDermott During his first spring in the White House, Richard Nixon read with interest an article written by journalist Pete Hamill. He th...

Between the Lines / By Peter McDermott In 1960, a future Republican president wrote to his party’s nominee, Vice-President Richard Nixon, offering ...