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Editorial / Periscope - Niall O'Dowd

Barack at Hillary’s Wake
“THIS is like an Irish wake” said Stella O’Leary, head of Irish American Democrats. We were at the first meeting between Senator Barack Obama and key supporters of Senator Hillary Clinton in Washington last week.

The Battle for Immigration Votes

BOTH Senators Barack Obama and John McCain appeared before the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) last week.

Who Speaks for Obama?

The Barack Obama campaign has done a remarkable job so far this election year, positioning a young and seemingly untried freshman senator as the new voice that America yearns for.

Economic Crisis

The new Economic Social Research Institute report on the Irish econcomy makes grim reading. The country is heading for a recession and emigration will return is the grim preduiction for the years ahead.

He Was the Best

THE last time I spoke with Tim Russert, he had called for an update on the Northern Ireland peace process. He was looking for Martin McGuinness’ phone number because he heard the Sinn Fein leader was going to be in town around St. Patrick’s Day, and

Bush in Ireland

“BUSH Views Northern Ireland as a Lesson for Peace” ran the headline in The Wall Street Journal on Monday as President George W. Bush prepared to arrive in the North. The article noted that Bush was hopeful that Northern Ireland could provide “ an ob

Hillary Defeat Is Our Loss

SENATOR Hillary Clinton’s defeat in the Democratic presidential primary is bad news for Ireland. There is no question that had she won the primary and gone on to win the White House there would have been huge positives for Ireland in her victory.

The New Partners

MARTIN McGuinness of Sinn Fein and Peter Robinson of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) took office last week as Northern Ireland’s deputy first minister and first minister respectively.

Obama’s Big Night

IN the end, Senator Hillary Clinton will come up 150 or so delegates short of getting the Democratic presidential nomination, which will now go to Senator Barack Obama.

IRA Men Need Legal Status

IN 2000 former IRA men living in the U.S. were granted conditional parole as part of the peace process by the Clinton administration, but now its provisions are in jeopardy.

A New Kind of Leader

PRIDE of place on the wall of new Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Brian Cowen’s office is a portrait of Sean Lemass, the father of modern Ireland.