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LETTERS: Time for Compassion
Editor: At the end of last year, the Minister for Nature, Heritage and Biodiversity Christopher O’Sullivan astonishingly voted against legislation ...
September 09, 2026
by Philip Kiernan
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EDITORIAL: 25 Years
We will hear the line again and again in the coming days. I can't believe it has been 25 years. But it has been a quarter of a century since the pe...
September 09, 2026
by Leader Column
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GERRY ADAMS: Our rights are not dependent on Andy Burnham
SHOULD we have been surprised by British Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s crass assertion last week that the issue of the unity referendum promised in...
September 08, 2026
by Gerry Adams
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KIRWAN: Back With a Bang
So the big S-word is making its unruly rounds again. The big C word – Communism - is now so retro only our president uses it. But Socialism is back...
September 03, 2026
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
LETTERS: The Time is Now
Editor: Taoiseach Micheál Martin recently remarked that he “goes bananas” when members of his own party raise the question of a Border poll. But pe...
September 02, 2026
by Timothy P. Cotton
Opinion
EDIITORIAL: Andy Burnham's Table Talk
Not for the first time has a British prime minister put his foot in it when Northern Ireland is under the foot. Andy Burnham, visiting the North, i...
September 02, 2026
by Leader Column
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Gerry Adams: County Mayo pays tribute to the hunger strikers
THIS Sunday the National Hunger Strike Commemoration will commence at 2.30pm in Ballina, County Mayo. The event will mark 45 years since the 1981 h...
September 01, 2026
by Gerry Adams
Andy Burnham's Table Talk
Not for the first time has a British prime minister put his foot in it when Northern Ireland is under the foot. Andy Burnham, visiting the North, i...
August 28, 2026
by Irish Echo Staff
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EDITORIAL: The Wilting Fields
It has been one of those summers in Ireland, the kind of season that people will be referring back to years from now. Many in Ireland still talk of...
August 26, 2026
by Leader Column
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GERRY ADAMS: Forget the background noise and keep up the work
MONDAY’S Irish Times has an editorial dealing with the possibility of the collapse of the Northern Assembly at Stormont. This is the latest media-d...
August 25, 2026
by Gerry Adams
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Gerry Adams: Fleadh and Féile made 2026 a real year to remember
FOLLOWING on from Tradfest – well done Dónal and everyone involved – Féile and the Fleadh were mighty. Sixteen days of Féile An Phobail, separate b...
August 20, 2026
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
KIRWAN: High Time for a Rockabilly Revival
The Village Pub was a temple of tolerance that perched precariously near the top of Bainbridge Avenue. It was owned by John Flynn, who welcomed eve...
August 20, 2026
by Larry Kirwan
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