Opinion
A Growing Cruelty
If you confined judgement on the Trump administration's immigration policy to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement website you would likely be c...
December 10, 2025
by Leader Column
Opinion
OPINION: BBC spends more money libelling Gerry Adams than supporting Irish language broadcasting
A language lives or dies on its relevance to modern life. And nothing is more relevant than news - the clue, after all, is in the word. So let's as...
December 08, 2025
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
Opinion
2021 race showed what ranked-choice voting can do
“Ranked Choice Voting gives a strong voice to all voters in our elections, and ensures candidates with the broadest support get to govern.” So says...
December 05, 2025
by Peter McDermott
Opinion
ADAMS: An open letter to my unionist neighbours
I WANT to respectfully reach out to my unionist neighbours at this time of ongoing change on our island and continuous turbulence and conflict in p...
December 04, 2025
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
The Closing Doors
Immigration is not an easy or casual word to bring up in conversation these times. The immigrant, the refugee, the migrant, is being increasingly v...
December 03, 2025
by Leader Column
Opinion
Forty Years of the Anglo-Irish Agreement
The American role and the cause for hope Forty years ago, on November 15 1985, something extraordinary occurred: the heads of the Irish and British...
December 02, 2025
by Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason
Opinion
You Would Think
It's a good thing that the Pilgrims didn't write bad checks. Or run the equivalent of STOP signs in the 1620s. We are living in a time when immigra...
November 26, 2025
by Leader Column
Opinion
Alive Alive-Oh
They say that a week is a long time in politics. Well it can be an eternity in sports. Just one week ago the Irish soccer team was contemplating an...
November 19, 2025
by Leader Column
Opinion
Gerry Adams: We’ve seen it all before as DUP frets over TUV
MICHELLE O’Neill honoured her commitment to be a First Minister for All when she chose to take part in Sunday’s Remembrance Day ceremony in Belfast...
November 17, 2025
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
OPINION: Change New York rentals law to enable visitors to stay in our Irish neighborhoods
As one of New York City’s last Irish enclaves, Woodlawn in the northernmost part of The Bronx has drawn large numbers of Irish visitors for generat...
November 14, 2025
by Matthew Carey Salyer
Opinion
LETTER: An Unsurprising Silence
Dear Editor: The silence of many politicians on both sides of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland regarding the sectari...
November 13, 2025
by Raymond McCord
Opinion
KIRWAN: Setting Foot in a Very Different Ireland
“The longer you stay away, the less likely you are to go home.” That was another piece of wisdom the auld fellah imparted to me up in The Archway s...
November 13, 2025
by Larry Kirwan
