Cormac MacConnell

Ireland get on your knees and thank Donald Trump for his wisdom

I fall to both knees unlike Colin Kaepernick, but like the Catholic altar boy I was in my youth -- and I raise both hands towards Heaven -- to profusely apologize publicly and abjectly to your absolutely mighty President Donald Trump.

Irish Voice

Irish Voice

Dragons are coming - Battle for Irish presidency begins… and Trump

As most of ye over there know very well, there is nothing we at home here on the Emerald Isle relish as much as a good rousing election with all the craic and sound and stimulation that goes with polling battles.

Opinion

Opinion

A second hand pair of trousers and two Popes

Let's have a lighthearted interlude in the wake of a papal visit which was a damp squib in the end after a searingly lovely summer.

Irish Voice

Irish Voice

The silliest of seasons bookended by Clinton and Adams

Incredible events even during what media folk always called the Silly Season in years gone by.

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Other Writers

Trump and Clinton whirligig joined by Pope Francis in Clare garden

"Does life imitate art? Does art forebode life?.. Here are the facts of the situation atop my Clare fence."

Irish Voice

Irish Voice

A bad dream in the White House - meet Cormac Huckabee Sanders

Nightmares can be fearful experiences altogether as all of us know. This bitter reality was hallmarked for me on an early August night here in Clare.

Irish Voice

Irish Voice

Power and passion of Ireland under a Blood Moon sky

"Our county identities and templates are so deeply embedded within our heads...maybe that is both a weakness and a strength of some kind. I am not sure."

Irish Voice

Irish Voice

From music festivals to walking fish - more super Irish summer

A soaring fireworks display over the Shannon to signify the ongoing Brian Boru festival in my Killaloe was just one index to the incredible summer we are relishing throughout the sun-baked island.

Irish Voice

Irishmen should be ashamed, Irish women are the real sports stars

If we males performed half as well on the sporting fields as our womenfolk then the outlook would be much brighter for all concerned.

Irish Voice

Great weather in Ireland - even better music, dancing and craic

In our unique heatwave, there is a growing shortage of water nationally but, by heavens, there is no scarcity at all of midsummer craic and festivalia. A real lava of levity and laughter and pure joy at about every level.

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Deep-ocean research of Atlantic Ocean launched in Cork

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Dublin's newest museum maps a journey from Georgian house to tenement dwelling

Discover “The Book of Kells” online through new Trinity College free course

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Macnas announces Halloween Parade 2018 theme for Galway and Dublin

WOW Air taking off with flights from Ireland to North America from $117

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