Opinion
View from Belfast: Time to call on the Spirit of 1916 or risk a repeat of August '69
This is the editorial from today's edition of the Andytown News, our sister paper in Belfast: If you think a week is a long time in politics, then ...
June 10, 2026
by The Editor Andytown News/Belfastmedia.com
A political slush fund too far
Should we refer to the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization" slush fund in the past tense? The Senate failed to get the 60 senators needed to kill it l...
June 09, 2026
by Peter McDermott
Opinion
EDITORIAL: More Equal Than Others
During her address a few weeks to the annual Sinn Féin Ard Fheis, party president Mary Lou McDonald lamented what she saw as an exodus from the isl...
June 03, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
A New Look at Our Greatest Story
Storytelling is a crucial part of Irish culture, from oral histories to our playwrights and poets. But the story of the Irish diaspora is perhaps o...
June 01, 2026
by Neale Richmond
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Remembering the Fallen
Each year, on Memorial Day, we honor those who have fought and died for America in wars here and around the world. We did so at the beginning of th...
May 27, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
GERRY ADAMS: Fianna Fáil turn away from their foundational aim
LAST Saturday the Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis in Dublin marked the centenary of that party. At its foundation in 1926 it was agreed that the party would ...
May 25, 2026
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Highway Hoops
Last weekend saw another four fatalities on Irish roads in addition to a number of injuries. The headlines were all too familiar, all too depressin...
May 20, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
GERRY ADAMS: The people are ahead of the politicians on Irish unity
AT the time of writing this week’s column Keir Starmer is still the Leader of the British Labour Party and Prime Minister. On Monday he delivered a...
May 19, 2026
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
Golden Opportunity to Mark Irish Contribution to Founding of United States by Investing in Peace Process
I know they say what happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas but this is the exception that proves the rule because I want to thank Bostonian and P...
May 17, 2026
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
Opinion
Letters: The Only One
Editor: Talks have been ongoing over a possible peace deal between Iran and America. Everyone must welcome that. Yet Mary Lou McDonald's rhetoric i...
May 13, 2026
by Raymond McCord
Opinion
EDITORIAL: A Very English Mess
British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer must be feeling that the walls of Number 10 Downing Street are closing in on him. After the surge by the fa...
May 13, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
GERRY ADAMS: Springhill heroes invoke warm local memories
WHEN I was a wee buck growing up in Ballymurphy there was a river at the back of the houses across from our home place at the corner of Glenalina R...
May 12, 2026
by Gerry Adams
A political slush fund too far
