Stephen Colbert
BREXIT is to blame for the increase in racist sentiment in the UK according to the United Nations. Professor Tendayi Achiume spoke of a Brexit-related growth in ‘explicit racial, ethnic and religious intolerance,’ views that have become part...
Paddy Callaghan
SADLY, last month, Glasgow lost one of its finest traditional musicians, Uilleann Piper, Pat McNulty (above).
Pat, for a very long time, would have been considered the only Uilleann Piper to live within the city, never mind the best,...
Stephen Colbert‘HATE can hurt, but never win’ was John McAreavey’s dignified response to the vile and despicable actions of Orange Order members in Dundonald Orange Hall who sang a ‘wee ditty’ mocking his bride Michaela’s murder while...
Davy Rispin
FOLLOWING the latest communication from the GAA a couple of weeks ago, we now know that it will be Easter at the earliest before training can resume for teams all over the country—both for clubs and county. That...
Edward BradyAIDEN O’Brien tasted success in the Vertem Futurity Trophy race at Doncaster recently, with the winner, Luxembourg, justifying the support that many of us had in him—not least the trainer himself. It was O’Brien’s tenth winner in...
Cara Wynne
IN January 2019, I wrote an opinion piece for The Irish Voice telling my dad’s story of his last 36 hours on a trolley in the Emergency Department (ED) corridor at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) where he died....
President Michael D HigginsAR AN gcéad dul síos is mian liom traoisliú leis na hEalaióntoírí. Tragóideach a bhí ár gCoga Catharga, agus a dtorthaí, ní h’amháin d’íadsa a bhí go díreach i gceist ach a gclainn agus...
STEPHEN COLBERT looks at the decision to prosecute Soldier F who was involved in the Bloody Sunday killings
When it was announced by the British Prosecution Service that—originally—only one former British soldier would be charged with the killings of civil rights demonstrators...
Johnny Foley
LAST month marked the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Minds were cast back to that fateful day in 2001 from those of us old enough to remember it—where we were, how we heard, what we thought. These are...
Mairi Hughes
BEING three weeks into a COVID-19 quarantine, I can hardly remember what my normal routine feels like. Like many others, I am working from home, have tried my hand at baking banana bread, offered haircuts to everyone in...