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

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 ...

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

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What shapes your future; is it you or is it the world around you? Does random chance or the actions of powerful others decide the outcome of your life? Are we controlled by fate or can we make our own ...

Yesterday Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald popped up on ‘Good Morning Britain’ to make her case to the English, Scottish and Welsh publics on the need for a referendum on Irish unity. Those of ...

I served as an elected representative — the sole SDLP councillor in a chamber dominated by Unionism. I stood firm in my beliefs: social democracy, a reconciled Ireland, and a Northern Ireland where ...