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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...
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...
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