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Malachi O'DohertyThe Irish Post |
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...