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THE strange thing about raising children in Britain is realising they experience Ireland completely differently from you. To me, Ireland is ordinary...
JUST how united can the United Kingdom continue to be? That is the question that arises from the recent local and regional elections across Britain....
WHEN I was young the IRA was a historic legend. Sixty years ago I was 15 years old and deeply impressed by the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of...
THE latest Irish opinion poll shows a consistent trend. Sinn Féin are the leading party, while Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael make up a rump that only...
IN 1990 Mary Robinson was elected Ireland’s first female President. It was a Presidency that could not have been more symbolic. The first woman, the...
WATCHING Micheál Martin being harassed in a doorway during the recent fuel protests made me think something peculiar once again. It made me think...
ONE of the core iconic images or symbols of Ireland is the harp. The harp on the cover of the Irish passport probably works subliminally as an...
THE fuel protests were like an alternative universe. At least two people contacted us from Britain to ask if Ireland was running out of fuel. Online...
THERE are three types of satire: Juvenallian, Horatian and Menippean. I’ll admit that’s not the zingiest opener to a piece about comedy you’ll...
YOU might be unfortunate enough to remember Arthur’s Day. What I remember is its sudden appearance and the dislocating feeling that I’d missed...
NORTHERN Ireland, where I live, has an identity problem. Essentially it’s this. Few people who live here actually identify as Northern Irish. Many...
BENEATH the looming clock face of Big Ben, the House of Commons descended into political theatre and a bear pit of the highest order earlier this...
EXACTLY five years ago, the wife of best-selling Irish author Lee Dunne called me to break the news that Lee Dunne had died at the grand old age of...
I WAS in London recently. It’s an Irish city for us in lots of ways, isn’t it? So many Irish there in the past, so many Irish there now — the...
WE TEND to imagine neglected children as they’ve been depicted in literature or film. There’s the cheeky ‘Orphan Annie’ model that in popular...
THE acclaim Micheál Martin received after his dealing with Donald Trump during the St Patrick’s Day gathering at the White House was well deserved....
THE first primary school I went to in Belfast is now a heap of rubble. It is also at the heart of a prolonged and now tired political wrangle over who...
IT WAS Ray Houghton. That was where it started. It is important, of course, to put this in perspective. But it begins with Ray Houghton — more...
THE point of the item was to demonstrate that people in polar opposite positions can find empathy and even love. This was on The Tommy Tiernan Show on...
A REPORT a few years ago by the European Commission found Ireland to be the loneliest country in Europe. Twenty per cent of Irish people stated that...
WHILE most look forward to Easter, whether for the religious significance, glut of chocolate, or simply a day off, some brace as the holiday looms:...
IRELAND still has clans. You can buy maps on tea towels in tourism shops which show you the regions from which old Gaelic family names come. My crowd,...
BEING an insignificant country has its benefits. It is not like we can do much about it anyway, but being a small island on the western edge of the...
I DON’T know what to make of George Mitchell. I know the impression he made in Ireland when he was President Clinton’s envoy and chaired the peace...
THE ESRI, the Economic and Social Research Institute, recently revealed some very interesting facts about immigration in Ireland. Indeed, some of what...
THERE are certain headlines that make you put the kettle back on. “Fergie flees to Donegal” parped the Daily Mail. It was a ‘kettler’. Now, as...
THE racist abuse of Edwin Edogbo after he made his debut for the Ireland rugby team should surprise absolutely nobody. The IRFU had to turn off social...
IT’S NOT a wedding present I would have thanked you for, but no one was complaining when the late Queen bestowed another title on her son Andrew,...
ST PATRICK’S season is almost upon us. The trans-Atlantic calendar kicks into gear, and Ireland prepares for its annual global moment. Plans for the...
I WAS baptised twice. The first time was, I think, on the day I was born, a premature twin, with some doubt hanging over both of us about whether we...
JUST after the New Year I did two of the most Irish things simultaneously - I saw someone off at the airport and then went straight to a funeral. I...
AER Lingus could face sanctions from US authorities if it fails to comply fully with federal security instructions, former airline chief Willie Walsh...
WHEN Luke Kelly sang For What Died the Sons of Róisín, what do you think he meant? Of course, there is always a problem with interpreting the past...
MY heart lifts every year at roughly the same moment, though I can never quite predict the day. I...
IT IS springtime in Ireland. In England it is still winter. Actually, the weather is usually much...
SOME twenty years ago we nearly moved to an offshore island. We were living in a rented wooden c...
BY-ELECTIONS are often brutal but few might match the bruising contest looming in Gorton and Dent...
IN ANTICIPATION of a major war with Russia in the next few years, several European countries are ...
I NEVER really thought about it until one day I was sitting in a church and wondered why it is I ...
THERE are days when I read about the Catholic Church and feel a strange mix of familiarity and di...
IRELAND is a country which esteems itself well. It has made a transition through several differe...
THE National Economic and Social Council recently pointed out the challenges Ireland is going to ...
WE Irish are good at leaving. We have centuries of practice. One of the saddest things I read re...
IRELAND is damp and dreary at this time of year. The Irish, perhaps more than most, think it alm...
I SAW a few things in 2025 I wasn’t expecting to see on the streets of Ireland anytime soon. I sa...
IN the early 1980s, Waterford was a city holding its breath. Where once it had soared on the gle...
THERE is now a lot more discussion in Ireland around the question of Irish unity. The country was...
BOOTS has doubled its footprint at one of its Dublin stores following an extensive expansion proj...
THE Irish Government has purchased 100 acres of land next to the Glen of the Downs beauty spot in...
THE Irish Government has increased surveillance at farms across the country after an outbreak of ...
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