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EDITORIAL: Remembering the Fallen
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EDITORIAL: Remembering the Fallen
Each year, on Memorial Day, we honor those who have fought and died for America in wars here and around the world. We did so at the beginning of th...
May 27, 2026 by Leader Column
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GERRY ADAMS: Fianna Fáil turn away from their foundational aim
LAST Saturday the Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis in Dublin marked the centenary of that party. At its foundation in 1926 it was agreed that the party would ...
May 25, 2026 by Gerry Adams
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EDITORIAL: Highway Hoops
Last weekend saw another four fatalities on Irish roads in addition to a number of injuries. The headlines were all too familiar, all too depressin...
May 20, 2026 by Leader Column

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GERRY ADAMS: The people are ahead of the politicians on Irish unity
AT the time of writing this week’s column Keir Starmer is still the Leader of the British Labour Party and Prime Minister. On Monday he delivered a...
May 19, 2026 by Gerry Adams

Golden Opportunity to Mark Irish Contribution to Founding of United States by Investing in Peace Process
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Golden Opportunity to Mark Irish Contribution to Founding of United States by Investing in Peace Process
I know they say what happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas but this is the exception that proves the rule because I want to thank Bostonian and P...
May 17, 2026 by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
Letters: The Only One
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Letters: The Only One
Editor: Talks have been ongoing over a possible peace deal between Iran and America. Everyone must welcome that. Yet Mary Lou McDonald's rhetoric i...
May 13, 2026 by Raymond McCord
EDITORIAL: A Very English Mess
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EDITORIAL: A Very English Mess
British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer must be feeling that the walls of Number 10 Downing Street are closing in on him. After the surge by the fa...
May 13, 2026 by Leader Column
GERRY ADAMS: Springhill heroes invoke warm local memories
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GERRY ADAMS: Springhill heroes invoke warm local memories
WHEN I was a wee buck growing up in Ballymurphy there was a river at the back of the houses across from our home place at the corner of Glenalina R...
May 12, 2026 by Gerry Adams
From young blades to business trailblazers, Josh and Kelly are bringing the 'Made in America' marque back to San Francisco
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From young blades to business trailblazers, Josh and Kelly are bringing the 'Made in America' marque back to San Francisco
Irish immigrant Hugh McConnell was the last person to make knives in San Francisco — 160 years ago. But now a cutting-edge company, with its own co...
May 10, 2026 by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
Editorial: Soldiers Not Pawns
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Editorial: Soldiers Not Pawns
The decision to pull 5,000 American military personnel out of Germany would appear to be more of a political slap than a strategic reassignment. Th...
May 06, 2026 by Leader Column
KIRWAN: The Best Piece of Advice I Ever Received
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KIRWAN: The Best Piece of Advice I Ever Received
I was recently asked, “What was the best piece of advice you ever received.” Though it was given to me way back in the last century, the simple wor...
April 30, 2026 by Larry Kirwan
EDITORIAL: An April Surprise
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EDITORIAL: An April Surprise
The decision by the U.S. to continue a financial contribution to the International Fund for Ireland is to be welcomed. Frankly, though, we are not ...
April 30, 2026 by Leader Column
LETTERS: Long Overdue
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LETTERS: Long Overdue
Editor: I’m writing to share something deeply important — and something I believe many people simply don’t know. More than a century after his deat...
April 29, 2026 by Noel P. Horkan
GERRY ADAMS: Our seagoing heroes deserve a permanent tribute
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GERRY ADAMS: Our seagoing heroes deserve a permanent tribute
FOR as long as the English have occupied Ireland there have been political prisoners. As long as there have been political prisoners there have bee...
April 28, 2026 by Gerry Adams
Opinion: From Capitol to Cuba, the convulsions of 'a strange and troubled land'
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Opinion: From Capitol to Cuba, the convulsions of 'a strange and troubled land'
There is a popular song about the seditious Irish, as seen through the lens of the man from the Daily Mail which includes the cautionary line, "oh,...
April 25, 2026 by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
EDITORIAL: The Envoys of Irish America
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EDITORIAL: The Envoys of Irish America
The absence of a U.S. envoy to Northern Ireland is regrettable. But Irish America is, to a significant degree, filling the void. This was made evid...
April 22, 2026 by Leader Column





 



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