Opinion
EDITORIAL: Back To No Future
Back in the late 1990s, when Drumcree and the Garvaghy road were headlines in ink that never went dry, the Echo featured a front page cover photo f...
September 30, 2026
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Opinion
EDITORIAL: Very Irish Gifts
The meeting between President Catherine Connolly and President Trump went off well enough. There were fears over a possible clash of views but both...
September 23, 2026
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Opinion
EDITORIAL: Words Mean Something
Back in 1992, at the Irish American Presidential Forum in Manhattan, Bill Clinton would utter words that would reverberate over time, into his pres...
September 16, 2026
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Opinion
EDITORIAL: 25 Years
We will hear the line again and again in the coming days. I can't believe it has been 25 years. But it has been a quarter of a century since the pe...
September 09, 2026
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Opinion
EDIITORIAL: Andy Burnham's Table Talk
Not for the first time has a British prime minister put his foot in it when Northern Ireland is under the foot. Andy Burnham, visiting the North, i...
September 02, 2026
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Opinion
EDITORIAL: The Wilting Fields
It has been one of those summers in Ireland, the kind of season that people will be referring back to years from now. Many in Ireland still talk of...
August 26, 2026
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Opinion
Garden Saved
In a world on fire every bit of green counts. Elizabeth Street Garden in Lower Manhattan is a tiny sliver of green in the mostly asphalt and concre...
August 19, 2026
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Opinion
EDITORIAL: A Week to Remember
Few in Ireland are going to quickly forget the last week of July 2026. It all began with tumultuous celebrations after Mayo cast aside 75 years of ...
August 05, 2026
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Opinion
EDITORIAL: An Expanding Calamity
Amid all the alarming reports of fires, floods and heat domes around the world in recent weeks and months there was a report that, in only a slight...
July 29, 2026
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Opinion
EDITORIAL: The Golden Goal
If you went back to the beginning of the just completed World Cup and asked yourself this question: "What in all of this is the golden goal? Well, ...
July 22, 2026
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Opinion
EDITORIAL: In The Spirit of 'Dagger John'
County Tyrone is sometimes referred to as "the hard country." This not in the context of scenery, but in the county's role over the centuries in Ir...
July 15, 2026
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Opinion
EDITORIAL: Cup Runneth Over
Well, what to make of this World Cup. No Irish representation unless you count Cape Verde's Pico Lopes. And sure why not. Lopes and his extraordina...
July 08, 2026
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