After all the excitement about the election of Leo Varadkar as our new taoiseach last week, it has to be said that his first week in office turned out to be a bit of a disappointment.
There’s only so many times you can hear jokes about how many pints you drink and how many potatoes you eat before it becomes not just irritating but plain boring.
"Connecting our national flag directly with the outcome of what to many of us are ugly brawls... is likely to reinforce an ancient prejudice against us."
Here in the U.S. two prominent Irish American cardinals are offering widely differing responses to Pope Francis' dramatic change in tone regarding LGBTQ people.
Irish American’s decision, post-Putin interview, proves you can take the journalist out of Fox News, but you can’t take Fox News out of the journalist.
Mott Street. Manhattan. 1936. These were tough times in a tough place. One might go so far as to say that things back then were even tougher than they are now.
