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EDITORIAL: Remembering the Fallen
Opinion
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...
EDITORIAL: Highway Hoops
Opinion
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...
EDITORIAL:  A Very English Mess
Opinion
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...
Editorial: Soldiers Not Pawns
Opinion
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...
EDITORIAL: An April Surprise
Opinion
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 ...
EDITORIAL: The Envoys of Irish America
Opinion
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...
EDITORIAL: The GFA at 28
Opinion
EDITORIAL: The GFA at 28
Rome wasn't built in a day and the Good Friday Agreement is not going to turn Irish history on its head, even after 28 years. But the agreement has...
EDITORIAL: So Which Way?
Opinion
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...
EDITORIAL: Ireland Arming Up
Opinion
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...
The Closing Door
Opinion
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...
Of War And War's Alarms
Opinion
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...
Shamrock Summit
Opinion
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...





 



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