Michael Collins

A plaque in memory of Michael Collins was unveiled today to mark the 91st anniversary of his killing on August 22nd, 1922. Chief of Staff of the Defen(...)

This is a good time of the year to talk about political reform. It is the time of the long holiday for both houses of the Oireachtas. It’s the time of(...)

There is no doubt that the continuing and escalating violence in the North has left many people shrugging their shoulders in indifference, recalling p(...)

There was nothing new in a suggestion by former Fianna Fail minister Mary O’Rourke that her party and Fine Gael should put aside past differences and (...)

Big news from my kitchen: I’ve started to squint while looking at the instructions on the side of a stock cube. I know it’s a very small box but it sh(...)

Lost leaders have a persistent fascination. The reputations of great men cut down in their prime are often more enduring than those who lived to make (...)

Shannon Foynes Port Company has put record financial results down to an increase in shipping activity levels not seen since 2008. Today it posted an o(...)

There is fashionably late and then there is extremely late. At yesterday’s funeral Mass in Dublin for Glenageary architect David Collins, his close fr(...)

Seán Lemass (1899-1971) was taoiseach from 1959 to 1966.He grew up on Capel Street, in Dublin’s north inner city, and fought in the 1916 Rising as a p(...)

Understanding the change in Ian Paisley has thrown even the most astute commentators off course. How did the demagogue whose constant rant was: “Never(...)