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
Opinion
Congress Should Not Support Britain Shutting the Door on Truth
Fifty-four years. That is how long the families of the Springhill victims waited for justice. Fifty-four years before a British Prime Minister fina...
June 23, 2026
by By Neil F. Cosgrove
Opinion
Gerry Adams: Pride shines out amidst the racism and the violence
THE bulletholes from the August 1969 sectarian pogrom against the people of the Falls area are still visible on the front wall of St Comgall’s Prim...
June 22, 2026
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Troubled Past Troubled Present
Detainees facing no formal charges going on hunger strike. Protestors outside the walls and barbed wire. Rubber bullets being fired at protestors. ...
June 15, 2026
by Leader Column
No longer 'above the mire'
