The New York mayoral election is proving to be unusually lively, even by that city’s standards. Zohran Mamdani appears poised ...

For three of the four Executive parties the misery continues – with the UUP the only one escaping the consequence of belonging to an Executive which gives its members no power to deliver but only to ...

It’s that time of the year once again when we all got an extra hour in bed as the clocks fell back (I hope everyone is well rested). We pay for it in the Spring of course when the clocks move forward ...

I have always had an immense reverence for the role of President, seeing in it the triumph of the Irish system of government as one of the best ways of running a proper democracy. Better than the ...

Seán Patrick Donlan is a Professor of Law at Thompson Rivers University (Canada). He formerly taught Irish law at the University of Limerick and has published on comparative legal history, as well as ...

Vienna found itself separated from its larger neighbour, Germany, in the years leading up to World War ll, despite being both culturally and geographically close. It also shared its most infamous son, ...

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The long-running trial of Soldier F for his alleged conduct on Bloody Sunday ended yesterday with his acquittal. The presiding Judge, Mr. Justice Lynch said (as quoted in this BBC article) “…what ...

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The fake deepfake AI video of the Irish Presidential candidate Catherine Connelly pulling out of the race is a dark harbinger of things to come. Note how realistic the visuals and voices are. This AI ...