Opinion
GERRY ADAMS: No surprises from Micheál Martin on unity vote
THE decision by Micheál Martin last week to oppose Sinn Féin’s ‘Planning for Constitutional Change Bill 2026’ was no real surprise. His opposition ...
July 20, 2026
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
EDITORIAL: In The Spirit of 'Dagger John'
County Tyrone is sometimes referred to as "the hard country." This not in the context of scenery, but in the county's role over the centuries in Ir...
July 15, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
LETTER: Film a Due Honor
Editor: A new film made for Galway based TG4 is about a young football team in North Belfast at the start of the Troubles has been selected to be s...
July 09, 2026
by Raymond McCord
Opinion
KIRWAN: Changes Between Leaving and Returning
Towns change. We leave them one way, and find them so different when we return. Wexford is a case in point. So many people now live on its outskirt...
July 09, 2026
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Cup Runneth Over
Well, what to make of this World Cup. No Irish representation unless you count Cape Verde's Pico Lopes. And sure why not. Lopes and his extraordina...
July 08, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
GERRY ADAMS: A new plan for 1916 battlefield site is the way forward
THE 1916 Moore Street Battlefield site in the centre of Dublin is a hugely important historical and cultural location whose significance has been i...
July 07, 2026
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
America at 250
"In Congress, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes nece...
July 01, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
Boston's Charitable Irish Society Supporting Birthright Citizenship
At its 289th Anniversary Dinner in Boston on St. Patrick’s Day, the Charitable Irish Society announced it had submitted an amicus brief to the Unit...
June 30, 2026
by Tyler McManus
Opinion
EDITORIAL: And The Next One Please.....
There's an old comic dig at the old time Soviet leadership standing stiff on the Kremlin Wall reviewing one of those interminable Moscow military p...
June 29, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
Can a nation tearing itself apart learn from Ireland's peacemakers?
Amid growing polarization in America, Belfast has been on my mind. Growing up in the 1990s, the name “Belfast” was synonymous with conflict and war...
June 27, 2026
by Paul Rockower
Opinion
Fondly Remembering All Those Sweaty Showband Years
“Send ‘em Home Sweatin’!” was the battle cry of Irish showbands during their rambunctious dancehall reign back in the 1960s. Or, as Ben Dolan of Th...
June 26, 2026
by Larry Kirwan
No longer 'above the mire'
Dan Wilson is so good, they pardoned him twice. He’s one of a cohort who’ve been looked upon with considerable favor by the Trump Administration, f...
June 25, 2026
by Peter McDermott
No longer 'above the mire'
