Opinion
GERRY ADAMS: Parnell's words of wisdom echo through the years
IT was Charles Stewart Parnell who said: “No man has the right to say to his country, ‘Thus far shalt thou go and no further.’” This was in the 19t...
August 04, 2025
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
LETTER: America’s Role in Advancing Peace
Editor: I write this on the 4th of July, a day marked for celebrating the success of what was viewed at the time as an American experiment. People ...
July 30, 2025
by John Guttmann
Opinion
Two Presidents
President Donald Trump and President Michael D. Higgins do have a few things in common, despite outwardly very different images and appearances. Th...
July 30, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
GERRY ADAMS: 20th anniversary – A long time since the end of the long war
20 YEARS ago on Monday one of the most historic and transformative events in the Irish peace process took place. On July 28, 2005, the IRA issued a...
July 28, 2025
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
KIRWAN: Rockin' Hard While Rolling Along
With its working class roots and boozy background, rock ‘n’ roll often teeters on the edge of chaos and violence. Rock music, on the other hand - u...
July 24, 2025
by Larry Kirwan
LETTER: A Strained Neutrality
Editor: I write in response to the Irish Echo Opinion piece on Ireland's neutrality. Ireland's neutrality has been a cornerstone of its foreign pol...
July 23, 2025
by Kevin Scollans
Opinion
Alien Obsession
Perhaps, in a throwback sort of way, it was appropriate. At the top of the letter ordering him to leave the United States Gabriel Megahy was not ad...
July 23, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
GERRY ADAMS: People protest over 'shameful' GPO plan
THERE is widespread anger at the decision by the Irish government to convert the historic GPO in Dublin into shops and offices. Last Saturday hundr...
July 21, 2025
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
Weathering Calamity
The images from Texas have been heartbreaking. The flash floods in the state's Hill Country swept away the lives and dreams of hundreds. Lives were...
July 16, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
British Strategy to Cover Up Collusion: Deny, Delay, and Wait for People to Die!
At a recent Ancient Order of Hibernians webinar on the Sean Brown case, National President Sean Pender described the British strategy for handling ...
July 14, 2025
by By Ed Neafsey
Opinion
The GPO's Future
Just about everyone in Ireland knows what you are referring to when you say "The GPO." Of late, the reference might be followed by a thought: what ...
July 09, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
GERRY ADAMS: Reject Dublin government's shameful betrayal of sacred GPO site
THE Dublin GPO and the streets and laneways around it are forever linked with the Easter Rising of 1916. This is a battlefield site of major histor...
July 07, 2025
by Gerry Adams
LETTER: A Strained Neutrality
