Opinion
KIRWAN: Wexford's Debt to its Franciscan Friars
When Christmas is at hand, like most emigrants my thoughts turn to home – Wexford Town, in my case. After I escort a tour group to Ireland every Oc...
January 06, 2026
by Larry Kirwan
250 Years And....
Back in 1776, at the birth of the American Republic, a sniffle was a serious matter. A cold would be worse. Flu could easily be fatal. All too many...
January 05, 2026
by Leader Column
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Gerry Adams: For Gazans, the Nativity scene is a truly horrific one
THE story of Christmas and the birth of Jesus in a stable, as Mary and Joseph sought shelter, is known by billions around the world – even by those...
December 29, 2025
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
Hunkering Down For Christmas
Another Christmas, another time of celebration that is in reality for all too many a time of separation. There are photos taken at Dublin Airport o...
December 29, 2025
by Leader Column
Opinion
GERRY ADAMS: Kenova Report revelations come as no big surprise
THE Kenova Report adds further substance to the litany of existing reports that over several decades have exposed the extent of British state parti...
December 22, 2025
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
Ireland in a New Front Line
Splendid isolation was the view over many decades. Europe might be engulfed in war but Ireland, off the continent's edge, was sitting both pretty a...
December 17, 2025
by Leader Column
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
250 Years And....
