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Focus to be jobs in State of Union address in Washington

THE 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 appointments

PRESIDENT 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 acclaim

PRESIDENT 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 citizens

AMERICA: 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 causes

THE 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 tapes

LIKE MOST bigots, the 37th president of the United States, Richard Milhous Nixon, didn’t think he was prejudiced at all

Mon Dec 13 2010 - 00:00

Enduring words offer peek into world of Amherst's recluse

AMERICA: Speculation about the life of Emily Dickinson, a true American eccentric, continues to fascinate

Sat Dec 11 2010 - 00:00

Wikileaks embassy cables: the key points

US DIPLOMATS INSTRUCTED TO SPY

Tue Nov 30 2010 - 00:00

Release of reports 'an attack' on world community

US 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 world

AMERICA: 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 again

AMERICA: 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 recovery

THE GLOBAL Irish Network convened for the first time in North America yesterday

Fri Nov 12 2010 - 00:00

Americans split on desirability of being one's brother's keeper

AMERICA: The Democrats and Republicans differ in attitudes to giving

Sat Nov 06 2010 - 00:00

Chaotic finale to Connecticut election

CONFUSION 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 war

THE 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 North

FUNDING 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 Irish

AN 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 election

AMERICA: Ted Sorensen worked with Kennedy on many of his speeches

Sat Oct 16 2010 - 01:00

Lenihan tells US investors Ireland's tax base needs to be broadened

THERE 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 budget

IRELAND’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 targeted

Ireland'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 meeting

FINANCE MINISTER Brian Lenihan is eager to clear up any misunderstanding

Sat Oct 09 2010 - 01:00

G24 group critical 'currency war' stance

THE 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 landscape

AMERICA: Increased polarisation, right-wing populism and a struggling economy could spell a wipeout for Democrats

Sat Oct 02 2010 - 01:00

Cause and reaction: how the bailout was viewed in Europe and the us

THE 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 address

MINISTER 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 speech

ANALYSIS: The resumption of the talks is one of the few foreign policy successes Obama can point to

Fri Sept 24 2010 - 01:00

For all its ignorance and anger, the Tea Party is on a roll

AMERICA : Democrats have been seized with a sense of dread that the Palin clone might actually win

Sat Sept 18 2010 - 01:00

Petraeus warns over plan to burn Koran

GEN 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 romance

ANALYSIS: The Woods-Nordegren marriage ended with a typical American mix of prurience and puritanism

Wed Aug 25 2010 - 01:00

Obama with an eye to the women appears on daytime TV chat show

BARACK 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 leaks

THE 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

Information overload threatening to choke response to terror

AMERICA: A report on the colossal counter-terrorism intelligence industry in the US shows that it may be drowning in an ocean…

Sat Jul 24 2010 - 01:00

An Irishwoman's Diary

I HAVE venerated cats since early childhood

Tue Jun 22 2010 - 01:00

'All I have is the searing memory of her misery in my heart'

AMERICA: Heartbreaking scenes are played out daily along America’s southern border, as the crackdown on illegal immigration …

Sat Jun 19 2010 - 01:00

Obama summons BP chiefs to White House

ESTIMATES OF the amount of oil that has poured into the Gulf of Mexico since British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon rig exploded…

Sat Jun 12 2010 - 01:00

Violence predicted as Americans turn from the south

THE UNSIGHTLY barrier surges up as you turn a corner, dwarfing the brightly painted houses, restaurants and little squares of…

Wed Jun 09 2010 - 01:00

Oil spill is just latest US disaster caused by regulatory failures

AMERICA: Regulatory capture – the domination of US regulatory agencies by industries – is at heart of banking and oil spill …

Sat May 29 2010 - 01:00

Mexican president's visit brings focus on immigration

A STATE visit by Felipe Calderón, the president of Mexico, to Washington has been dominated by the issues of illegal immigration…

Thu May 20 2010 - 01:00

Hypocrisy on red carpet as Karzai pays a visit

AMERICA: The president’s upbeat account of the Afghan war during Karzai’s visit to the US was jarring

Sat May 15 2010 - 01:00

Accused New York bomber charged

FAISAL SHAHZAD, a Pakistani-born US citizen, was charged yesterday afternoon with committing an act of terrorism and attempting…

Wed May 05 2010 - 01:00

Arizona shoots itself in the foot by targeting illegal immigrants

AMERICA: Arizona has become the first US state to criminalise illegal immigration by defining it as trespassing

Sat May 01 2010 - 01:00

Wall Street's stock falls as Goldman put in the stocks

ANALYSIS: Goldman Sachs’s role in the global financial crisis is being exposed in the US Senate, writes LARA MARLOWE

Fri Apr 30 2010 - 01:00

Lucid and in-depth portrait of troubled country

Beware of Small States – Lebanon: Battle Ground of the Middle East By David Hirst Faber, 480pp, £20

Wed Apr 07 2010 - 01:00

Wall Street's stock falls as Goldman put in the stocks

ANALYSIS: Goldman Sachs’s role in the global financial crisis is being exposed in the US Senate, writes LARA MARLOWE

Wed Mar 24 2010 - 00:00

Brief moment of truth in US-Israeli relations passes as row abates

AMERICA : The crisis over housing in east Jerusalem has shown the desperate need for consistency in US Middle East policy

Sat Mar 20 2010 - 00:00

Irish visitors left giddy by Obama charm

As the Taoiseach noted, the president carries the burden of White House traditions very lightly

Fri Mar 19 2010 - 00:00

Middle East dominates talks between Martin and Clinton

FOREIGN AFFAIRS: WITH US-ISRAELI relations at their lowest point in 35 years, according to Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador…

Wed Mar 17 2010 - 00:00

Obama's healthcare reform enters do-or-die week

MAKE OR break. Do or die. Fight to the finish

Tue Mar 16 2010 - 00:00
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