This is a Gael Warning.

The fuss and furore these winter days over the increasingly likely prospect of a hard border around the neck of this little island fascinates me lately.

Your letters, your views.

I ran out of songs I enjoyed singing so I began writing my own.

GarrethFilms has released a new video showing St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland.

THE pasture field outside my study window has become a parade ground for birds. 

APRIL FOOL’S and Spy Wednesday fall together today, as bedfellows. Last night, the Taoiseach outlined the Ireland 2016 centenary programme in the riding school in Dublin’s Collins Barracks.

A BOY scout once, I would have been on Church Parade yesterday. 

On March 17 we Irish celebrate the deeds of St Patrick, but just how much do we actually know about the man behind the day, asks Kevin O’Brien?

ASH WEDNESDAY was the day when foreheads were marked with ash and the words ‘Memento, homo, quia pulvis es’ were said (or, in English, ‘Remember, man, that thou art dust’). 

I lunched last Sunday with a gargantuan guzzler and bon viveur who announced his plans to take a sleeping pill tonight and retire early. New Year’s Eve is funny.

IT’S commonplace in our public conversation to deify Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King, but the connection between Irishness and racism is studiously avoided. Its uncomfortable, it’s ingrained, but it’s a deeply unattractive part of us.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has held out hope for 55,000 undocumented Irish living in the United States, telling representatives from Congress — where legislation on the issue has stalled — to “get on with it”.

Ireland will be without a US ambassador for a second St Patrick’s Day in a row, despite earlier expectations that the position would be announced during Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s visit there later this week.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny gave no sartorial hint as to what team he will be supporting in tomorrow’s All-Ireland hurling final replay.

Protestants and Catholics have set aside their fractious past and are united for The 2013 City of Culture, 338 arts events that symbolise progress, says Alan O’Riordan

IN justifying his decision in 2007 to enter government Green Party leader John Gormley cited advice given to him during coalition negotiations by Mary Harney, a woman who at that stage had been a senior minister for 10 years (and who had been a junior minister earlier in her career).

BETWEEN the jigs and the reels of galloping electricity prices, your front page news on August 16 again shone some cold light on our current economic plight.

MUNSTER GAA chief executive Pat Fitzgerald has described the recent trend of inter-county conflicts involving players and management as a ‘disturbing one’ and insists a National agreement between the GAA and GPA is the best method to finding a lasting solution to the problem.

AM I the only Irishman that went to Cheltenham during Gold Cup week just to drink water? If I’m not, then I’m certainly a member of a very small club and that’s for sure.

AN Irish visit by Barack Obama is looking more likely following a conversation last night between the US president-elect and the Taoiseach.

The world is waking up to Saint Patrick's Day as millions of Irish descendants are toasting the occasion.

Gerry Adams will start a tour of the US today that will see him meeting many members of the Irish-American community ahead of Saint Patrick’s Day.

Northern Ireland’s politicians must not allow intemperate remarks to derail the progress made in the peace process and devolution, SDLP leader Mark Durkan said today.

Northern Ireland society must tackle the very deep sectarianism and bigotry which still exists there, the province’s Deputy First Minister Mark Durkan claimed today.