SDLP Elects Margaret Ritchie as 'Leader' - First Woman to Head Major Party in...
Joe Leary In a close election last month, the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) of Northern Ireland elected Minister Margaret Ritchie, 51, as its "leader" to guide the party into the second...
View ArticleBritish Elections Loom Crucial to Peace in Northern Ireland
Joe Leary The results of the upcoming British Parliamentary elections will have a profound effect upon peace and understanding amongst the conflicted people of Northern Ireland. The people of the...
View ArticleRob O'Leary, State Senator for Cape and Islands, Looks to Congress With an...
Greg O'Brien Giving new definition to irony, Rob O'Leary's academic pedigree in the spirited arena of Boston politics reads like one from central casting: Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire; The...
View ArticleIs Sinn Fein's Abstention Policy Dying?
Bill O'Donnell Maybe it's because Gerry Adams has had some recent personal setbacks along with his party's electoral hopes, but the call for the voice of the Provos to end their parliamentary...
View ArticleRecognizing Our Faults, Our Flaws
Institutions perform poorly because they are composed of human beings. That observation should not come as a surprise to anyone older than 30; yet we are frequently shocked when it happens. Read more
View ArticleJuly Still Means Troubles in Belfast
Joe Leary The July parades in Northern Ireland celebrate a Protestant military victory over a Catholic army at the Battle of the Boyne in the Republic of Ireland over 300 years ago. The marches are an...
View ArticlePhil Johnston, Lifelong Democratic Stalwart, Has Three Passions: Politics,...
Greg O'Brien Philip W. Johnston, a former chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic Party, always knew how to spot a winner. Read more
View ArticleReduced Corporate Taxes May Help in the North's Struggle With Finances
Joe Leary Like most of the world today, Northern Ireland is facing an uncertain financial future. But unlike most countries, it is an unsettled society, just emerging from 40 traumatic years of...
View ArticleHarsh financial measures are succeeding in Ireland
Joe Leary European and American business leaders are praising Ireland's government for setting a courageous course to return the Irish economy to financial prosperity in the years ahead. A balanced...
View ArticleIrish Look Into Facebook Complaints
Bill O'Donnell The popular social network Facebook has 600 million users across Europe but that hasn't stopped an Irish agency from auditing the internet phenomenon. The Irish Data Protection...
View ArticleSaville Report Delay Unconscionable
Bill O'DonnellThis new year, 2010, will be the 12th anniversary of the start of the Saville Inquiry into the January 1972 massacre, Bloody Sunday, when 13 unarmed Derry citizens were shot to death by...
View ArticleFor Gerry Adams, It Was a Year of Trials at Work and at Home
Robert P. ConnollyFirst came the startling news that the republican leader's brother, Liam Adams, was on the run, charged with having sexually abused his daughter for an eight-year period that began...
View ArticleMurphy, a Mover on the Boston City Council, Takes Stock of Voter Anger in...
Greg O'BrienThe view is serene from Stephen John Murphy's office on the fifth floor of Boston City Hall. It overlooks Faneuil Hall and a swath of Boston Harbor in the distance on this promising late...
View ArticleClimate Change in Scott Brown's Massachusetts
Jim O'SullivanThe Jan. 19 election to succeed Paul Kirk - and Ted Kennedy - in the United States Senate was supposed to be the tripwire. The vote that launched a thousand domino campaigns, Democrats...
View ArticleOfficials See North's Policing Accord As Signaling End to 'Troubles' Era
Robert P. ConnollyNorthern Ireland's Troubles began with its police force front and center and in a very real sense may have ended with a grand compromise on the vexing question of where the ultimate...
View ArticleSaville Report Delay Unconscionable
Bill O'DonnellThis new year, 2010, will be the 12th anniversary of the start of the Saville Inquiry into the January 1972 massacre, Bloody Sunday, when 13 unarmed Derry citizens were shot to death by...
View ArticleFor Gerry Adams, It Was a Year of Trials at Work and at Home
Robert P. ConnollyFirst came the startling news that the republican leader's brother, Liam Adams, was on the run, charged with having sexually abused his daughter for an eight-year period that began...
View ArticleMurphy, a Mover on the Boston City Council, Takes Stock of Voter Anger in...
Greg O'BrienThe view is serene from Stephen John Murphy's office on the fifth floor of Boston City Hall. It overlooks Faneuil Hall and a swath of Boston Harbor in the distance on this promising late...
View ArticleClimate Change in Scott Brown's Massachusetts
Jim O'SullivanThe Jan. 19 election to succeed Paul Kirk - and Ted Kennedy - in the United States Senate was supposed to be the tripwire. The vote that launched a thousand domino campaigns, Democrats...
View ArticleOfficials See North's Policing Accord As Signaling End to 'Troubles' Era
Robert P. ConnollyNorthern Ireland's Troubles began with its police force front and center and in a very real sense may have ended with a grand compromise on the vexing question of where the ultimate...
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