Wednesday, Sean will be cremated at Roselawn Crematorium.   You will not know this as he left strict instructions there would be; no death notices, no mass, no eulogy, no memorial cards. Sean is not ...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin delivered the annual Seamus Mallon ‘Shared Home Place’ Lecture in the Navan Centre & Fort in Armagh ...

I wonder what our media would report during silly season if it were not for the Orange celebrations leading up to and ...

John Gray’s address to those attending Reclaim the Enlightenment’s celebration of Bastille Day may be of interest. On the ...

I was chatting with someone a while back whose daughter is a GP. She told me that her daughter and the other GP partners were ...

Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald popped up on ‘Good Morning Britain’ to make her case to the English, Scottish and Welsh ...

As a reluctant and begrudging, Lions fan, I felt my reluctance and begrudgery giving way when 15 Irish players were included ...

I have some sympathy for Australian golfer Jason Day. After battling the conditions at The Open in Portrush, he remarked: The weather here … it’s the craziest weather pattern I’ve ever experienced in ...

I served as an elected representative — the sole SDLP councillor in a chamber dominated by Unionism. I stood firm in my ...

One of the recurring themes of this blog is that the people and politicians of the Republic are utterly unprepared for the ...

Finley is a Slugger reader from Belfast Every year on July 12th, parts of Northern Ireland erupt into bonfires, parades, and ...

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