Bid to persuade public US has acted wiselyOBAMA SPEECH: PRESIDENT BARACK Obama was to deliver one of the most important speeches of his presidency last night, in the …Tue Mar 29 2011 - 01:00
Obama blessed with his Republican rivals in presidential raceAMERICA: The cartoon characters that have emerged, each nuttier than the next, has mainstream Republicans despairingSat Mar 26 2011 - 00:00
Family FirstCOVER STORY: MICHELLE OBAMA, five feet 11 inches tall, bends to reach the little hands stretched towards herSat Mar 19 2011 - 00:00
Warm Irish welcomes start to flow for ObamasSCARCELY FIVE hours had passed since President Barack Obama announced he would visit Ireland, but already, in the reception line…Sat Mar 19 2011 - 00:00
Irish America's best hope of winning White House againThe American Ireland Fund has honoured Democrat rising star Martin O’MalleyThu Mar 17 2011 - 00:00
US House's move to close fund prompts furious reactionINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR IRELAND: THE US House of Representatives withdrew funding for the International Fund for Ireland (IFI…Thu Mar 17 2011 - 00:00
US Muslim hearings spark protestsTENSION CONTINUES to rise between critics and defenders of America’s two million-strong Muslim community in the run-up to Congressional…Tue Mar 08 2011 - 00:00
Man who wrote rules for peaceful revolutionPeople the world over have taken Gene Sharp’s path from dictatorship to democracySat Mar 05 2011 - 00:00
Police chief's passion for Irish music sounds through the centuryAMERICA: Born in Skibbereen in 1848, Francis O’Neill collected more than 3,500 traditional tunesSat Mar 05 2011 - 00:00
Sense of doom grows as federal government shutdown loomsAMERICA: Even if a shutdown is averted on March 4th, this crisis is built to last, with the national debt likely to reach the…Sat Feb 26 2011 - 00:00
Freedom medals draw stories of honour, glory and emotionAMERICA : Barack Obama this week honoured 14 US citizens, people he called “the best of who we are and who we aspire to be…Sat Feb 19 2011 - 00:00
Obama says US must live within its means in WashingtonWASHINGTON’S NEW era of divided government began in earnest yesterday when President Barack Obama defended his proposed 2012 …Wed Feb 16 2011 - 00:00
Druid's 'Inishmaan' production highlight of cultural seasonTHE DRUID production of Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan , which opened at the Kennedy Center in Washington last night…Wed Feb 09 2011 - 00:00
Saddled with unease after giving verdict in case of stolen scooterAMERICA: While a young man goes down for a joyride, BP’s ex-chief gets a golden handshake of $18.5 millionSat Feb 05 2011 - 00:00
Reagan's son bemoans a legacy commandeered by the far rightAMERICA: In his memoir ‘My Father at 100’, Ron Reagan has no place for what he calls the fetishistic veneration of the late …Sat Jan 29 2011 - 00:00
Chicago ruling on Emanuel a setbackTHE ILLINOIS supreme court is expected to accept a case involving Rahm Emanuel, President Barack Obama’s former chief of staff…Tue Jan 25 2011 - 00:00
Focus to be jobs in State of Union address in WashingtonTHE US president will place jobs and competitiveness at the centre of his annual State of the Union address at 9pm eastern standard…Tue Jan 25 2011 - 00:00
Obama makes Ireland fund appointmentsPRESIDENT OBAMA has appointed Dan Hynes, the outgoing comptroller of the state of Illinois, and Stella O’Leary, the president…Fri Jan 21 2011 - 00:00
Obama's speech wins widespread acclaimPRESIDENT BARACK Obama’s speech praising the victims and heroes of the mass shooting that left six Americans dead and 13 wounded…Fri Jan 14 2011 - 00:00
'Great Black Father' makes amends to America's real first citizensAMERICA: The signing by the US of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is one of the few promises Obama has been…Sat Dec 18 2010 - 00:00
Worldwide campaign aims to raise $100m for Irish causesTHE WORLDWIDE Ireland Funds charitable network yesterday announced a “Promising Ireland” campaign to raise $100 million for Irish…Mon Dec 13 2010 - 00:00
Nixon derides blacks, Jews, Irish and Italians in secret Oval Office tapesLIKE MOST bigots, the 37th president of the United States, Richard Milhous Nixon, didn’t think he was prejudiced at allMon Dec 13 2010 - 00:00
Enduring words offer peek into world of Amherst's recluseAMERICA: Speculation about the life of Emily Dickinson, a true American eccentric, continues to fascinateSat Dec 11 2010 - 00:00
Release of reports 'an attack' on world communityUS SECRETARY of state Hillary Clinton yesterday called the planned release of hundreds of thousands of state department cables…Tue Nov 30 2010 - 00:00
Snub of historic proportions to elected leader of free worldAMERICA: IT WAS a profound show of disrespect for the office of president, a crime of lèse-majesté.Sat Nov 20 2010 - 00:00
Postmortem for Celtic Tiger predicts Ireland can rise againAMERICA: All is not lost, according to David Lynch, author of ‘When the Luck of the Irish Ran Out’Sat Nov 13 2010 - 00:00
Skilled Irish diaspora focuses on recoveryTHE GLOBAL Irish Network convened for the first time in North America yesterdayFri Nov 12 2010 - 00:00
Americans split on desirability of being one's brother's keeperAMERICA: The Democrats and Republicans differ in attitudes to givingSat Nov 06 2010 - 00:00
Chaotic finale to Connecticut electionCONFUSION REIGNED yesterday in the Connecticut gubernatorial race, 48 hours after the midterm election in which Tom Foley, a …Fri Nov 05 2010 - 00:00
Daggers drawn at mention of Iraq warTHE VOTERS I spoke to outside the faux-colonial-style City Hall here yesterday wanted Democrats and Republicans to work together…Wed Nov 03 2010 - 00:00
McGuinness expects Westminster to honour commitments to NorthFUNDING REVIEW: NORTHERN IRELAND’S Deputy First Minister is confident the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government…Wed Oct 20 2010 - 01:00
Clinton praises 'courage and hard work'OPENING ADDRESS: WHEN AMERICANS, particularly businessmen, thought of Northern Ireland, “for a long time, the first thing that…Wed Oct 20 2010 - 01:00
Lonely death in New York sparks census of elderly IrishAN UNPRECEDENTED census of elderly Irish people in the New York borough of Queens will begin in earnest next week, with 400 respondents…Tue Oct 19 2010 - 01:00
Words and music piece will mark 50 years since JFK's electionAMERICA: Ted Sorensen worked with Kennedy on many of his speechesSat Oct 16 2010 - 01:00
Lenihan tells US investors Ireland's tax base needs to be broadenedTHERE IS further scope to reduce public spending and raise tax revenues, Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan told an audience …Wed Oct 13 2010 - 01:00
Welfare and pension bills may be targeted in December budgetIRELAND’S WELFARE and pension bills are “on the table” in discussions on the four-year plan to be announced next month, and in…Tue Oct 12 2010 - 01:00
Pensions may be targetedIreland's welfare and pension bills are “on the table” in discussions on the four-year plan to be announced next month, and in…Tue Oct 12 2010 - 01:00
Lenihan gets good response at 'routine' IMF meetingFINANCE MINISTER Brian Lenihan is eager to clear up any misunderstandingSat Oct 09 2010 - 01:00
G24 group critical 'currency war' stanceTHE G24 group of developing nations yesterday rejected an attempt by the IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn to link…Fri Oct 08 2010 - 01:00
Midterm elections will dramatically change political landscapeAMERICA: Increased polarisation, right-wing populism and a struggling economy could spell a wipeout for DemocratsSat Oct 02 2010 - 01:00
Cause and reaction: how the bailout was viewed in Europe and the usTHE THREE-PRONGED strategy of “coming clean” on the true cost of the bank bailout, forcing losses on to subordinated debt holders…Fri Oct 01 2010 - 01:00
Martin urges Israel to stop construction in UN addressMINISTER FOR Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin last night urged Israel “to desist from all settlement construction in the West Bank…Tue Sept 28 2010 - 01:00
Centrality of Middle East talks most striking aspect of speechANALYSIS: The resumption of the talks is one of the few foreign policy successes Obama can point toFri Sept 24 2010 - 01:00
For all its ignorance and anger, the Tea Party is on a rollAMERICA : Democrats have been seized with a sense of dread that the Palin clone might actually winSat Sept 18 2010 - 01:00
Petraeus warns over plan to burn KoranGEN DAVID Petraeus, the commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan and the most respected US military officer, has warned…Wed Sept 08 2010 - 01:00
Arrogance ruins what once seemed a fairytale romanceANALYSIS: The Woods-Nordegren marriage ended with a typical American mix of prurience and puritanismWed Aug 25 2010 - 01:00
Obama with an eye to the women appears on daytime TV chat showBARACK OBAMA was the American housewife’s dream yesterday when he made the first ever appearance on a daytime television chat…Fri Jul 30 2010 - 01:00
Search on at Pentagon for source of Afghan leaksTHE PENTAGON has launched “a very robust investigation” into the leaking of tens of thousands of classified documents on the …Wed Jul 28 2010 - 01:00
