Irish and UK television audiences were riveted by a hard-hitting Channel Four documentary at the weekend that revisited the long-ignored massacred at the Ballymurphy estate in West Belfast in 1971.
"Colette" is still France's most widely read female writer, and as the new film starring Kiera Knightley makes clear, she's also a feminist icon who has plenty to say to our own times.
Searchers for one of the last three men still “missing” after being murdered by the IRA during The Troubles in Northern Ireland are quietly confident his remains will be found in a new hunt.
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.
Despite Donald Trump's reality TV-like presidency the accused US Supreme Court nominee should be confirmed to prevent future nominees from being wide open to charges and accusations.
Former Vice President charms Irish crowds in Washington showing his old-fashioned politics and ability to connect with constituencies including blue-collar white working-class males is why Trump fears Uncle Joe.
The year is 1903. It is the year the great short story writer Frank O’Connor was born in Cork, the same year the Vatican discusses canonizing Irish archbishop and martyr Oliver Plunkett, some two centuries after he was executed by the British, and the very same year that the University of Dublin decided that it would award degrees to female students as well as male students.
Patrick “Patsy” Dougan a member of a captured IRA unit during Irish War of Independence in 1921, he sadly died on the streets of New York. Now, on Sept 22 he'll be properly laid to rest in the Bronx.
Immigrants in the United States are being demonized under Donald Trump's rule and it's time we just looked at the state and figures at hand and realize that.
Leo Varadkar has told the first gathering of women in parliaments across the world that many aspects of the Irish Constitution are “still sexist and still backward.”
A Dublin woman who is the only Irish person to have stood trial for assisted suicide says in a TV documentary she was certain she was going to be jailed.
A dramatic claim of how a former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Minister twice fell asleep in a New York bar, forcing a waitress to insist he and his delegation leave, has been outlined to a public inquiry.
Joseph M. Murphy, a founding director of Country Bank New York and a United States Marine, has been selected as this year’s recipient of the Marine Corps University Foundation’s prestigious Major General John H. Russell Leadership Award.
"Clearly the outpouring of objections to this visit has had the desired effect as President Trump has decided not to come to Ireland. Mr. Trump is the face of hate, racism and division."
The evil that was wrought on September 11 continues to this day too alas but we hope that we have learned from our foolish mistakes that did nothing for the sacrifice of the men and women in the Twin Towers.
