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Malachi O'DohertyThe Irish Post |
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...
EVERY revolutionary movement in Ireland for centuries has looked abroad for support. And many countries that have been at war with Britain have...
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...
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...
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 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...
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 HORRIFIC attack on a man in North Belfast generated a powerful emotional reaction that resonated right through our political system, into the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
NORTHERN Ireland, where I live, has an identity problem. Essentially it’s this. Few people who live here actually identify as Northern Irish. Many...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
AER Lingus could face sanctions from US authorities if it fails to comply fully with federal security instructions, former airline chief Willie Walsh...
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