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GERRY ADAMS: ­New Irelanders will reap what women like Martina have sown
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GERRY ADAMS: ­New Irelanders will reap what women like Martina have sown
ON Saturday a packed St Mary’s gave a huge welcome to Martina Anderson, who was launching her personal and hugely important autobiography – ‘Choosi...
FLEADH IN BELFAST: City reaps a rich harvest of music and friendship
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FLEADH IN BELFAST: City reaps a rich harvest of music and friendship
THERE are moments in the life of a city when history quietly turns a corner and you know instinctively that you are witnessing something that futur...
KIRWAN: Surf's Up.....In Connecticut
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KIRWAN: Surf's Up.....In Connecticut
Living in the bustle of New York City you sometimes forget that there’s so much beautiful beachfront mere miles from your door. I’ve often written ...
LETTER: A Sligoman's Voice
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LETTER: A Sligoman's Voice
Editor: In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Sligo-born William Bourke Cockran was one of the best-known Irish men in America. (See article i...
EDITORIAL: A Week to Remember
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EDITORIAL: A Week to Remember
Few in Ireland are going to quickly forget the last week of July 2026. It all began with tumultuous celebrations after Mayo cast aside 75 years of ...
Rolling out green carpet for Teamsters' Pres as Fleadh fever grips Belfast
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Rolling out green carpet for Teamsters' Pres as Fleadh fever grips Belfast
For a guy who gets sick on the Strangford ferry, I took to the inaugural Irish Echo Maritime Awards in New York this past April like a duck to wate...
EDITORIAL: An Expanding Calamity
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EDITORIAL: An Expanding Calamity
Amid all the alarming reports of fires, floods and heat domes around the world in recent weeks and months there was a report that, in only a slight...
GERRY ADAMS: Féile opens another chapter on women’s experience
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GERRY ADAMS: Féile opens another chapter on women’s experience
FÉILE an Phobail is the launch pad each year of exiting new projects, and especially new books. One such book this year is ‘Women’s Voices, Hopes f...
EDITORIAL: The Golden Goal
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EDITORIAL: The Golden Goal
If you went back to the beginning of the just completed World Cup and asked yourself this question: "What in all of this is the golden goal? Well, ...
Pride Leading to Many Falls
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Pride Leading to Many Falls
In 1979 Pope John Paul II visited Ireland, the first Pope to do so. British authorities were annoyed and fearful for his safety in Northern Ireland...
GERRY ADAMS: No surprises from Micheál Martin on unity vote
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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 ...
EDITORIAL: In The Spirit of 'Dagger John'
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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...





 



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