Opinion
KIRWAN: Ah, Those Were The Days, Sort Of
I wrote my first column for the Irish Echo 18 years ago. It concerned Social Security, and how the program’s reserves would be unable to pay full b...
March 08, 2026
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
LETTERS: Those Orange Rebels
Editor: This Kinawley Fenian — and great admirer of George Washington, God bless him, for having kicked King George III out of America 250 years ag...
March 04, 2026
by Fr. Sean McManus
Opinion
Short, Long, Endless?
When a democracy finds itself in a war it has to speak and explain to its own people. But what you say to your own people and what you say to your ...
March 04, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
GERRY ADAMS: A fitting tribute to Frank’s courage and commitment
LAST week marked 50 years since the death of Frank Stagg on hunger strike in Wakefield Prison in England. Events, including a black flag vigil and ...
February 25, 2026
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
Nothing Ventured....
The upcoming visit to the White House on St. Patrick's Day by Taoiseach Micheál Martin could end up being, well, take your pick. There has been con...
February 25, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
Rotten and Toxic
Further proof, if it was needed, but we have been reminded how rotten and toxic is the current regime in Moscow. Literally toxic in the case of the...
February 18, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
GERRY ADAMS: Starmer paying the price for his dangerous call
AS I write this column the future of Keir Starmer as British Prime Minister is a topic of conversation because of his mishandling of the Peter Mand...
February 16, 2026
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
LETTER: Law for Some - Amnesty for Others
Editor: For half a century, allegations have swirled around Gerry Adams—often repeated as if the accusations themselves were proof. But when you fo...
February 11, 2026
by Marty Glennon Melville
Opinion
A Growing Darkness
Atop the front page of the Washington Post is the assertion that Democracy Dies in Darkness. This is somewhat limited. Democracy can die in broad d...
February 11, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
Gerry Adams: Civil trial ‘hearsay’ evidence part of a familiar agenda
IN May 2022 a civil case was launched against me in England. The civil trial will begin on March 9 in London and conclude on St Patrick’s Day. Ther...
February 09, 2026
by Gerry Adams
American democracy's fair-weather friends
The historian John Lukacs was no leftist. Indeed, he labeled himself a “reactionary” and his positions, if sometimes heterodox, were reliably right...
February 06, 2026
by Peter McDermott
Only Nevers made sense on right
This column was published in the Nov. 26-Dec. 2, 2025, edition of the Irish Echo. The word “Never” being used before someone’s name is a practice t...
February 06, 2026
by Peter McDermott
American democracy's fair-weather friends
Only Nevers made sense on right
