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LETTERS: Necessary Steps
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LETTERS: Necessary Steps
Editor: The Irish Martin-Harris coalition government needs to take positive and immediate steps to assist Irish farmers, industry, fishing, and hom...
April 09, 2026 by Craig E. Speers, Buffalo, NY 
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EDITORIAL: So Which Way?
The world has arrived at one of those moments. It's not just to do with wars going on but rather to do with what goes on next in the matter of, wel...
April 08, 2026 by Leader Column
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GERRY ADAMS: Micheál Martin has zero interest in pursuing unity
AN Taoiseach Micheál Martin was the first guest to participate in a new six part series of the podcast, ‘How to Gael’ under the title – ‘How to Uni...
April 06, 2026 by Gerry Adams

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KIRWAN: All Swaggered and Everyone Was Cool
It was the best of times and the worst of times – the best because we were young, the worst because we didn’t know any better. That’s how we all en...
April 02, 2026 by Larry Kirwan

LETTERS: Engaging with Irish America beyond the Beltway
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LETTERS: Engaging with Irish America beyond the Beltway
I read with interest the Irish Echo's report on Mayor Mamdani's inspirational words on St. Patrick's Day (Mayor Mamdani Broadsides British, Salutes...
April 01, 2026 by Cathal Mallaghan MP
EDITORIAL: Ireland Arming Up
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EDITORIAL: Ireland Arming Up
It didn't enter the conversation over the shamrock in the Oval Office on Saint Patrick's Day but Ireland is heading down a path that will see the n...
April 01, 2026 by Leader Column
Bread and butter issues at center of NYU strike
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Bread and butter issues at center of NYU strike
(Editor's note: this piece was written before the NYU Contract Faculty labor dispute was settled.) As another Irish-American Heritage month nears c...
March 25, 2026 by Stephen Butler
The Closing Door
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The Closing Door
A few days ago Saint Patrick's Day was celebrated from coast to coast. The day that's in it is a gift from Ireland, more specifically immigrants wh...
March 25, 2026 by Leader Column
KIRWAN: Same Saint But Very Different Towns
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KIRWAN: Same Saint But Very Different Towns
When I was a boy in Ireland, Saint Patrick’s Day was one of the worst days of the year. The pubs were closed and you could almost touch the gloom o...
March 19, 2026 by Larry Kirwan
Of War And War's Alarms
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Of War And War's Alarms
The line above is from "Politics" by William Butler Yeats. It's a short poem that sets the writer's priorities straight. Forget politics and forget...
March 18, 2026 by Leader Column
Shamrock Summit
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Shamrock Summit
The first shamrock summit took place on a summit - literally. That would have been, as the story goes, the fifth century encounter between Saint Pa...
March 11, 2026 by Leader Column
GERRY ADAMS: Andrew crisis puts focus on the failures of royalty
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GERRY ADAMS: Andrew crisis puts focus on the failures of royalty
CURRENTLY, the British state is convulsed by allegations surrounding a member of its royal family. Norway too is in the midst of a crisis around it...
March 08, 2026 by Gerry Adams
KIRWAN: Ah, Those Were The Days, Sort Of
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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
LETTERS: Those Orange Rebels
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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
Short, Long, Endless?
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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
GERRY ADAMS: A fitting tribute to Frank’s courage and commitment
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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





 



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