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Malachi OdohertyThe Irish Post |
IT IS springtime in Ireland. In England it is still winter. Actually, the weather is usually much...
IN ANTICIPATION of a major war with Russia in the next few years, several European countries are ...
IRELAND is a country which esteems itself well. It has made a transition through several differe...
IRELAND is damp and dreary at this time of year. The Irish, perhaps more than most, think it alm...
THERE is now a lot more discussion in Ireland around the question of Irish unity. The country was...
Politics in Northern Ireland is getting a little interesting. This is partly due to growing disaf...
DRIVING through north Donegal we noticed that some of the road signs were defaced. One was a sign...
NO ONE will be playing conkers in Ireland this autumn. Maybe no one would anyway. I’m not sure th...
WORKING for the BBC as a religious affairs journalist in Northern Ireland meant that I had to be ...
MY FRIEND Lyra McKee died from a gunshot wound and became a symbol of a post-Troubles generation....
I AM a bit freaked out by AI. I had been reading and even theorising about it in articles before ...
MY apologies to Jim Wilson. Jim is a truculent and argumentative champion of loyalist bonfires in...
I’M PROUD to say that if you come to Ireland for a holiday now you will dine well if you dine out...
BELFAST is a divided city. That is the most conspicuous fact about it. Walls separate Protestant...
LATER this year Ireland will elect a new president. By Ireland, of course, I mean the twenty six...
RACISTS who burned migrants out of their homes this month in Ballymena, County Antrim, have found...
I FIRST met Andy Tyrie, the leader of an armed loyalist group, who died last week, in 1986. A BBC...
THE great historian ATQ Stewart, in The Narrow Ground, compared the violence in Belfast in 1970 t...
IF YOU travel around some areas of Belfast you’ll see wall murals celebrating the IRA and other p...
PEOPLE from outside Northern Ireland tend to marvel at the pettiness of the disputes that divide ...
ONE of the discarded ideals of the Irish revolutionaries of 1916 was that the country should be s...
THERE’S a little piece of advice that every exam taker has to take seriously. Yet, at a recent d...
In IRA mythology, the name Hughes looms large THE name Brendan Hughes is a big one in the history...
TOWARDS the close of negotiation towards the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, all political parties...
Despite reforms, Catholic representation in the PSNI is falling—raising questions about identity,...
From ancient legends to modern drama, the Irish psyche still flirts with the supernatural IS THER...
IT’S hard to know if Trump has any specific plans for Ireland but his current strategy of treatin...
I WAS in a bar in Donegal town enjoying a music session, one whose detail is now lost in the hodg...
IS IRELAND closer to Boston or to Berlin? That’s a question that used to fascinate political com...
Does Ireland’s literary heritage emerge from big families, sibling conflict, cultural discord — o...