Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin should replace Pope Benedict as pope writes Catholic commentator and author Michael D’Antonio in the Los Angeles Times.

As the saying goes, “I could eat a horse,” and that’s likely what many Irish did over the past several months. The Irish Food watchdog, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, said it discovered horse DNA in burger products sold by Tesco, LIDL, ALDI, SPAR, and the country’s largest domestic supermarket chain, Dunnes Stores, causing the authority to demand the removal of ten million burgers from supermarket shelves. 

Like a movie that has seen way too many sequels, we yet again see the same old, tired, recycled scene in Northern Ireland. An angry crowd waving flags and fists, bottles being flung, people bleeding profusely, and riot police emerging from vans with shields and batons to quell the growing violence.

Awful what wind and waves can do when you harness their destructive power and they tear entire communities down to the ground.

Influential Irish commentator Eddie Hobbs has written in the Wall Street Journal that talk of a Celtic comeback is utterly exaggerated and Ireland is in worse shape than ever.

The Scottish people will vote on independence before 2014 in a deal in Edinburgh arranged by Scottish leader Alex Salmond and British Prime Minister David Cameron.

Clare has spent the last nine months as an exchange student in Ireland.

My husband died over eleven years ago, and since then it has been me and my daughter. She is 25 years old and in October she is emigrating.

Journalist Diarmuid O’ Flynn has led a weekly local protest for over a year in Cork against Irish repayments to European banks and bondholder. Here he explains why.