OSSINING, NEW YORK — It’s Easter Monday, April 13. It’s precisely one month to the day since I took my last train ride home out of Manhattan. That was a Friday the 13th, and New York City’s luck was fast running out. It’s been running out every day since. When the time comes to look […]
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Dateline New York: A dispatch from the stricken capital of the world
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OPINION – JUDE COLLINS: In matters of life and death, let’s have the truth
One day it will be over but for now just accept it – it’s a mess! WHEN you’ve got a huge threat like the Coronavirus, which respects no border and no social rank, there’s a temptation to throw up the hands and say, “It’s a mess. One day it’ll be over but for now let’s […]
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OPINION – GERRY ADAMS: We reflect back at Eastertide only because we are focused on future
THERE probably has not been an Easter week quite like this one in modern Irish history. I have always liked Easter and although I have less connection now with the institution of the Catholic Church, Good Friday always is a special day for me. It is the one afternoon that I try to slip into […]
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OPINION – Andrée Murphy: An Easter like no other, but there will be other days to remember
Click on audio file above to hear Andrée Murphy read this week’s column. AS this Coronavirus takes hold and the weather warms up it feels like a terrible thing that this will be an Easter like no other. But hold on. Actually? In some senses it will be a bit like most Easters were […]
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OPINION: Thoughts turn to Kenyan childhood as Coronavirus divides communities and Continents
IT is difficult to imagine even one clap of applause for the shut down. It has done what relationships gurus couldn’t try if they were asked to. It has definitely repaired many a family squabbles bringing tranquility I would imagine where there was no possibility for that. Businesses, places of worship, schools, restaurants and pubs […]
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OPINION: Belfast’s undocumented should put health first and immigration status later during Covid-19 Crisis
A DIFFICULT part post 9-11, the New York attacks of 2001, was determining how many victims were undocumented immigrants. It was a very difficult and personal process. You see, in the Twin Tower chaos, there were living people not seeking emergency treatment. That was a real headache in itself. It was estimated that over 100 […]
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