Bearing in mind that Mary Lou McDonald persistently denies that her party’s haemorrhaging of elected representatives is the result of an endemic culture of bullying, this was a bad week. If she was catching up with press coverage on her iPad as she scoffed her morning Cheerios, she could hardly have been happy. There was […]

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Scouting Ireland has become only the latest organisation to have to face up to a sickening catalogue of abuse allegations within its ranks. Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone told an Oireachtas committee on Wednesday that an independent review had found 71 alleged abusers had operated within scouting in the country, primarily between the 1960s and 1980s. […]

Rural Ireland isn’t dying. Across the country, schools that 50 years ago could barely muster classes are full of happy, well-fed children. Clean and modern – often enviably large – houses are scattered increasingly thickly across small towns and rural parishes. They’re home to a growing and increasingly prosperous population. The situation is far from […]

In the nearly three years since the Pentagon allowed women to join front-line combat units, questions about the policy have not gone away. Two former Marines — Owen West, now an assistant secretary of defense, and his father, the military writer Bing West — said women in the infantry would “swiftly reduce combat effectiveness.” In […]

What should we do during the next two years of divided government? We could spend them as we’ve spent the last two: React to every Trump outrage. Keep Trump’s narcissistic provocations at center stage. Express daily contempt from within the safety of our political silos. This seems to be the business model for cable news […]

Canada’s biggest party and one of the nation’s most-watched sporting events has returned to Edmonton. This is the fifth time the CFL Championship will be played at Commonwealth Stadium. 72nd Grey Cup: Nov. 18, 1984 Winnipeg Blue Bomber John Bonk, with Grey Cup in his left hand, raises his right hand in jubilation along with […]

To the Editor: Re “More Aid for College Students,” by Michael R. Bloomberg (Op-Ed, Nov. 19): I applaud Mr. Bloomberg’s $1.8 billion gift to my alma mater, Johns Hopkins. But his Op-Ed stirred mixed feelings in me. Hopkins wrote to its alumni that Mr. Bloomberg’s gift will allow it to “realize the inspiring vision of […]

Martin O’Neill may be frontman for the Ireland debacle of 2018, yet Roy Keane is the biggest loser in a story that should have ended long ago. Confirmation that O’Neill and Keane had finally left their posts as the FAI’s highest paid employees came with a mood of euphoria greeting the news – confirming that […]

My father’s sense of America came from the John Wayne movies he watched as a young man in India. He loved the blank highways of the West Coast. An application sent on a whim from Chennai got him acceptance to a graduate program at U.C.L.A. and eventually a Ph.D in operations management, a new behavioral […]