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THE situation around the Garvaghy Road is one of those periodic reminders, even for those of us right at the other end of the country, that peace...
DON’T LET them wind you up. Don’t take the bait. It was my Da’s way of saying ‘turn the other cheek’, and though no one ever expects you to...
SINN FÉIN made a big mistake in 2020. The party had been on a journey away from revolutionary politics towards being a viable choice to lead Ireland:...
THERE is a remarkable young Irish woman from Limerick called Natasha O’Brien. She came to public prominence when she campaigned against the...
WHAT is the point, you might wonder, of a stone beehive? I have seen them in the ashram in Rishikesh where the Beatles learned to meditate and on the...
WHAT’S it like to live in a country that hates itself? I’m asking that in all honesty. I was born and grew up in Birmingham. I’m not English,...
A LOT of very important people, who should know better, appear not to understand the Good Friday Agreement. This was the settlement in 1998 by which...
WHEN my dog ran into the pretty large grounds of the big house — not quite an old demesne, too modern for that, not quite big enough, but...
IT is that time of year when everything seems a little different, especially after the summer we’ve just had. The evenings are a little chillier....
A RECENT article in The Irish Times by Stephen Collins (August 7, 2026) argued that Ireland should give up on honouring the heroes of the Easter...
WHEN The Sun newspaper ran cruel and misleading headlines about Liverpool supporters in 1989, it sparked a backlash that lasts to this day – and...
EVERY revolutionary movement in Ireland for centuries has looked abroad for support. And many countries that have been at war with Britain have...
THANK God, there is no class system in Ireland. Otherwise, on hearing that voice behind me I would have been making all kinds of assumptions. There...
SOMETHING very simple happened to me just the other day and yet at the same time it felt like something of some magnitude. I was just about to leave a...
THERE was good reason for establishing a power-sharing system of government in Northern Ireland. The idea originated in the mind of Nobel Peace Prize...
AND then there was Mayo. Sport is often an unlovely thing. The summer has offered strong proof of that. The FIFA World Cup was a pretty distasteful...
IT WAS a little three-inch piece of fluted dowelling rod, about the thickness of a pencil and with a loop of string through one end. I saw it on the...
SO WHO wants a united Ireland and what kind of united Ireland do they want? The question is at the forefront of the thinking of many political parties...
THE New York Times headline read as follows: Burnham Set to Become Britain’s First Openly Roman Catholic Prime Minister. I’m fairly sure that odd...
IMAGINE this happening where you live. A group of English nationalists build a bonfire on council land or the village green. They have no permission...
I WENT with my mother to a church recently. She is still a devout Catholic and so this wasn’t unusual in itself. She still has all the holy...
I NEVER really knew Jeffrey Donaldson but then, apparently, neither did anyone else. I first took notice of him at the end of the talks towards the...
SOCCER. The Emergency. We really are a trivial country sometimes. Not small, not globally insignificant, not simply an island with an island's...
WAS talking to one of my sisters the other day and we got to reminiscing a little about growing up and coming of age and starting off in life. She...
We like to think we are nice welcoming people in Ireland, and perhaps most of us are. I have read stories in newspapers about school children...
A MAJOR new festival celebrating the life, work and legacy of George Bernard Shaw is set to make its debut in London this summer, bringing together...
ACCORDING to the Central Statistics Office, over 35,000 Irish citizens returned to Ireland in 2025, with Britain remaining the main source for people...
IRISH writer Tom McAndrew, whose debut novel features a detective battling failing eyesight, has spoken about how his own visual impairment inspired...
A MAN who died in a road traffic collision in Co. Antrim on Friday has been named by police as Matthew McIlroy. The 31-year-old passed away following...
THE ICONIC Irish Wolfhound features prominently on the new Irish passport, which has been released this week and combines tradition with technology....
GARDAÍ have released updated facial reconstruction images in a bid to identify a woman whose remains were discovered in Co. Cork more than five years...
POLICE have made an arrest after being called to a suspicious death in Belfast. The incident occurred in Dunmurry on the outskirts of the city....
A MAN in his 90s has died following a road traffic collision in Co. Laois. The incident occurred on the R433, Tullyroe, Abbeyleix at around 10.05am on...
TENS of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Ireland's capital for this year's Dublin Pride Parade. The procession, billed as...
GARDAÍ are appealing for information on the whereabouts of an 82-year-old man from Co. Clare who has not been seen in four days. Thomas Connole was...
A DUBLIN councillor has told an anti-immigration rally in the city that Ireland 'is full'. Gavin Pepper, who represents Ballymun-Finglas,...
POLICE have appealed for information after a man sustained head injuries following a serious assault in Co. down. It was reported that a man had been...
ONLINE investment platform Trading 212 has announced plans to establish a European hub in Dublin, creating 40 high-value roles over the next three...
A HORRIFIC attack on a man in North Belfast generated a powerful emotional reaction that resonated right through our political system, into the...
THERE was a brief window when not hoping England would lose was a viable option. Gareth Southgate and his team of players from immigrant backgrounds...
AFTER the recent rioting in Belfast, the Alliance Party leader Naomi Long, whilst condemning the violence, said she understood the anger. A journalist...
THE story in Dublin is that two big parties competed for decades and took turns governing. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael were inheritors of the legacy of...
AS I write this we are having the most peculiarly Irish time and it’s not because the Healy-Rae organisation is fighting with the Healy-Rae...
JO WIMPENNY’S Beauty of the Beasts appears at first glance to be a celebration of the animal kingdom’s less glamorous inhabitants: the scavengers,...
TWO festive seasons have begun in Northern Ireland and both will run through the summer. One is the parading season. Members of loyal orders will...
THINGS fall apart; the centre cannot hold. WB Yeats, the great Irish poet, wonderful lyricist, and holder of some deeply dubious political views,...
I HAVE often wondered why Northern Irish poets of the last fifty years have drawn so much from the Greek and Roman classics and an answer is suggested...
CHATTING recently with a Joyce enthusiast, I mentioned that I was reviewing Frank Callanan’s book, James Joyce: A Political Life. The reaction was...
IRELAND really just can’t make up its mind about immigrants and there is something coldly ridiculous about watching it get in such a tangle. If you...
THE strange thing about raising children in Britain is realising they experience Ireland completely differently from you. To me, Ireland is ordinary...
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