A business friend of mine passed away recently after a long illness. I was frankly amazed to hear that among the items placed in the coffin was a photograph of Donald Trump.
They will be singing the Ronnie Drew songs long after the techno beat and disco din are consigned to history. The Dubliners frontman, who passed on August 16, 2008, was one of a kind.
Illegal immigrants in the United States are saving social security, paying $23.6 billion in taxes and committing less crime than Americans right now! They must be stopped.
It will be the most watched political race this year in Ohio’s 12th District with everything on the line for November. The winner will be known on Tuesday night.
Humanity and insight relevant to the US President today from the famed Irish writer who witnessed horrific treatments of children in Reading Gaol, during his own two-year incarceration.
Ordinary but extraordinary people’s lives of the last generation of Irish to move to America chronicled as the “Golden Door” has been closed and immigration is no longer an option.
This is shaping up as one of the most dangerous times for the Good Friday Agreement since it initially bedded down 20 years ago. It would be all too easy to tear it apart.
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" and walked on the moon. Back in Ireland, a 16-year-old Niall O'Dowd was among the thousands of Irish who held their breaths.
A leading political scientist has warned in the Washington Post that Theresa May’s speech on Friday in Belfast on Brexit may well ruin the Irish peace process.
Ex-CIA chief John Brennan has become the de-facto leader of the opposition to President Trump. After the Putin press conference fiasco, he used the terms "impeach" and "traitor” in quite remarkable ways for a former top intelligence officer discussing a US president.
In the end, Joe Crowley was not defeated by some amazing national trend or emergence of a new force as many in the media are claiming. Demographics was destiny.
When politics was really toxic - in 1856 a pro-slavery anti-Irish politician killed Irish-born waiter Thomas Keating as his meal wasn't delivered "damn quick".
As US President Donald Trump battles with immigration policy after the world was shocked by the 2,342 children separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border it's fair to question what Donald Trump's mother's people in Scotland would think of it all.
New York Irish celebrate the departing Chairman of the St. Patrick's Day parade Dr. John Lahey who stepped into the lion's den and has changed the celebration forever.
