Articles published in 2018
Whipping up of tribalism and folk memory over eviction in Co Roscommon dangerous ploy
Never underestimate how much Ireland's past can...
‘Infamous five’ I’d dump in dreary place so they could contemplate their failings
Revealed: the fantasy reality show line-up of...
Who makes my list of people to be banished from Ireland this year?
To get 2019 off to a good start we need to expel...
Maybe Mr May understands his wife, but everyone else just finds her unknowable
Leavers and Remainers don't agree about much,...
When it comes to terrorism, a plague on both your houses I say to loyalist and republican
I may be known for my attacks on Sinn Fein, but...
Should we care what the UDA, UFF and the Red Hand Commando think about the Brexit backstop?
Talking to the spokesmen for paramilitaries...
‘How can any party go into coalition with toxic Sinn Fein?’
When I put myself in Mary Lou McDonald's shoes,...
‘Progressive’ Sinn Fein must be unnerved by erstwhile TD Toibin’s new pro-life party
Martin McGuinness' brother latest recruit to...
‘Petulance and bullying are not a very good look for Mary Lou’
Defections, bad company, shocking manners and...
In these tense times opposing arguments can best be served by respectful and civil debate
Free speech is no excuse for being abusive to...
A vicious mob is doing its best to discredit one of the greatest thinkers that we have in UK
If we fail to stand up against the social media...
IRA informer’s actions in foiling arms shipment from mobster saved many lives
The late Sean O' Callaghan did noble thing by...
‘Mary Lou gets in trouble with Sinn Fein’s back-room boys’
The disastrous Sinn Fein electoral performance...
Backroom boys will be having a quiet word with Mary Lou after disastrous race for presidency
Party puppeteers must be seething Sinn Fein blew...
How a charity established to build peace and support victims succumbed to tribal politics
Demise of NI Memorial Fund due to its exclusion...
Blame adults, not the young, for those tiresome snowflakes
We should be helping young victims of...
If a defendant is innocent until proven guilty, then Brett Kavanaugh is innocent
The recent hysteria over the US Supreme...
Apologists in Sinn Fein need to be reminded that the IRA were killers, not victims
As republicans dissemble in order to cover up...
So why should we vote for Michael D Higgins again?
It's an unexciting field in the race for...
Legacy Scandal: ‘London and Dublin must not let IRA snatch victory from jaws of defeat’
In the latest essay in our series, RUTH DUDLEY...
Why did the Irish Government decide to boycott commemoration of the police who were murdered?
Enemies of police from north and south still...
Silence over Mairia Cahill from the Left and women’s organisations is deafening
SF got off lightly after its pathetic response...
Mairia Cahill, Mary Lou McDonald and Michelle O’Neill. Not much sisterhood
Sinn Fein doesn't know what to do about...
Sinn Fein colluded over RHI while pretending that its hands were clean
Revelations from inquiry show us DUP is...
I say victim, you say perpetrator – a twisted version of facts
If Sinn Fein wins on the legacy proposals our...
Donald Trump’s decision to visit Ireland is giving Irish politicians real headache on how to react
The timing of the presidential visit is bad for...
Corbyn sounds very much like his pal Adams
Jeremy Corbyn is trying but failing to wriggle...
Too early to say if Pope’s visit to Ireland will alter anything, such is fury at Church failings
I have sympathy for a man buffeted by forces...
By launching Feile, Varadkar showed he’d rather woo Sinn Fein than fight republicanism
A festival with The Wolfe Tones top of the bill...
We must celebrate diversity of opinion rather than intolerance
Critics of the church are becoming as oppressive...
Sinn Fein gears up for big push to have vote for Irish President extended to the whole diaspora
Referendum to widen franchise on poll for head...
Unionists are debating the future – who is listening?
Foster and Robinson have made important speeches...
Omagh bombing: Families enduring anguish and how quest for justice still goes on
Twenty years after the bomb which killed 31...
Angry at Boris? I just feel rage for the women forced to hide away behind the burka
Published: 8 August 2018 Boris Johnson’s...
IRA bully boys just reminded Mary Lou McDonald that they are still in charge
She may be president of Sinn Fein, but U-turn...
Varadkar and Coveney have made a huge miscalculation by putting their faith in Brussels
The pair would do well to remember what...
A bad time to border on hysteria
Taoiseach's attitude to Brexit is so extreme...
Why Mr Paisley has presented some problems for Mrs May, Mrs Foster and Ms McDonald
The timing of the MP's suspension is difficult...
Constance Markievicz was last night commemorated as the first woman elected to parliament… but how many gathered in the Commons knew she was almost certainly a cold-blooded killer?
The former Constance Gore-Booth, a Protestant...
Northern Ireland Office’s consultation paper on legacy issues is an amoral fudge
Policy should put the welfare of victims...
A successful pilot run for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex
It didn't please republican puritans, but Irish...
We can’t allow terrorists to be seen as the moral equals of legitimate state forces
The Defence Minister's amnesty proposal gives...
Sinn Fein out of step with Irish public opinion in criticism of new Garda boss Drew Harris
Force in Republic needs reform, writes Ruth...
It’s hard to please both southern voters and the IRA
Mary Lou McDonald has a tough time while she...
Contemptuous as ever, the Sinn Fein juggernaut is now rolling over freedom of conscience
North and south, self-styled progressives have...
The protest over Peter Robinson’s professorship at Queen’s was ludicrous
The 37 academics who wrote to complain...
The plates may be moving, but who knows in which direction
Deep divisions remain between North and South -...
Mooted alliance between Fine Gael and Sinn Fein would be an unholy one for Taoiseach
Varadkar's Orange Order visit cold comfort if he...
If there was to be another EU referendum, I’d vote Leave with even more gusto than 2016
The British Government has been weak, the Irish...
The voters must choose decency or barbarism
Published: 3 June 2018 Last Thursday, Dr Colum...