Opinion
Confronting Ireland's Growing Far Right Ideology
This past fall, the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) released a report on Ireland’s growing far-right scene, pointing to the demon...
March 16, 2023
by By Kirsten Bokenkamp
Opinion
Preserving Union by Perfecting Partition
The roll-out of Britain’s leaving the European Union officially began with parliament's adoption of the 2020 Trading and Cooperation Act, but other...
March 16, 2023
by By Michael J Cummings
Opinion
ADAMS: Celebrating St. Patrick and the GFA
This week Uachtarán Shinn Féin Mary Lou McDonald and Leas Uachtarán Michelle O’Neill will be in the USA for the St. Patrick’s Day events. St. Patri...
March 16, 2023
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
EDITORIAL: And Saint Olga Too
Saint Patrick had a tough time of it dealing with the pagan Irish of the fifth century. Indeed, early Christian saints generally had a difficult ta...
March 15, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
KIRWAN: Memories of a Divine Palace of Punk
For years I couldn’t bear to pass by the John Varvatos store on The Bowery. My psychic alarm bells would go off when I was within a couple of block...
March 09, 2023
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
ADAMS: Macalla na mBán
This week’s column is dedicated to women. It includes a guest piece by Bairbre de Brún, former MLA and Minister. Wednesday, March 1, was Internatio...
March 09, 2023
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
EDITORIAL: A Framework For....
As is frequently the case with haggling over the future of Northern Ireland different parties can see starkly different things....in the same thing...
March 08, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
O'SHEA: Some Thoughts on the Ordination of Women
About seven years ago, my wife and I participated in a Mass in San Antonio, Texas, where the main celebrant was a woman. We were part of about thre...
March 02, 2023
by By Gerry O'Shea
Opinion
ADAMS: To Be Or Not To Be
As this column goes to press it appears that the British PM Rishi Sunak and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, have reache...
March 02, 2023
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Framework or Knot?
After lengthy and seemingly tortuous negotiations the EU and UK have come up with a means, they hope, of dealing with the impasse over the Northern...
March 01, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
KIRWAN: Time to Re-Evaluate Brendan Behan
Brendan Behan would have celebrated his 100th birthday a couple of weeks back if he’d stayed alive. But that was hardly on the cards for a hell-rai...
February 23, 2023
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
ADAMS: It's Make Your Mind Up Time
As I write this column the rumors are rife that the European Commission and the British government are close to an agreement – maybe – on the Proto...
February 22, 2023
by Gerry Adams
