From acorns come oaks. But if you don’t go planting, there will be no trees.

When the history of the present time is written historians will agree that the key change that took place in the second Trump presidency will be the dramatic shift in the position of the United States of America in relation to the rest of the free ...

There is something uncomfortably painful about watching someone try desperately to be liked.

Almost 50 years ago now, Thomas Green S. J. , a Canadian (I think, or possibly an American), wrote a famous book called When The Well Runs Dry.

In much the same way as the Ford Model T was a universal car in its time, so too was the Morris Minor. This simple car was a great favourite back in the 1950s and 1960s, endearing itself to townsfolk and country people alike.

The recent visit by members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Regional Development (REGI) to the west of Ireland is a salient reminder of the role Europe can play in our development and, indeed, wishes to play.

Pope Francis is a remarkable man. It is hard to believe that he was elected as far back ago as 2013. In his 12 years as Pope, he has done what all leaders should aspire to do: he has set the weather.

According to Politico and rehashed by many in the media on both sides of the Atlantic, the world watched as Taoiseach Micheál Martin, ‘the veteran diplomat’, endured ‘an excruciating 45 minutes’ meeting with President Donald Trump in the White House ...

If my father had a quiet Sunday in winter, he would take his gun and walk the land. This usually meant walking the boundary of our farm, taking in the places most likely to provide him with a shot.

In his article ‘The choices we make trigger rural decline’ (Western People, February 14), Mark Godfrey responded to my end-of-year column documenting the calamitous loss of western rural communities.