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ADAMS: 'We are not invisible' Say Springhill Families

Last week, the family of Loughlin Maginn settled a case against the British Ministry of Defence and the PSNI over his murder by the UDA in August 1...

September 22, 2022 by Gerry Adams

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KIRWAN: Irish Dance a Language All Its Own

Back where I came from few boys aspired to be Irish dancers. It would have been considered suicidal to trip daintily around the back streets of Wex...

September 21, 2022 by Larry Kirwan

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EDITORIAL: The UN Assembles

Back in April Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney delivered a first hand account of his just concluded mission to Ukraine, this at a sitting of th...

September 21, 2022 by Irish Echo Staff

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Adams: The Monarchy and a Tolerance of Differences

For those of us living in the north of Ireland the English Queen Elizabeth has been omnipresent in our lives for a long time. From our postage stam...

September 15, 2022 by Gerry Adams

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President Biden on the 21st anniversary of 9/11

Here are edited remarks by President Joe Biden at a 9/11 commemoration at the Pentagon on Sunday, September 11. Twenty-one years ago - twenty-one y...

September 15, 2022 by Irish Echo Staff

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EDITORIAL: The Queen's Irish Legacy

Amid the avalanche of coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth II there was an especially interesting observation by one royal commentator and biog...

September 14, 2022 by Irish Echo Staff

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ADAMS: Another British PM so Closer to Unity

Liz Truss is now the leader of the Conservative Party and British Prime Minister. No real surprise there. She is the fourth leader of the Tories in...

September 08, 2022 by Gerry Adams

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O'SHEA: A Partition Approaching its Sell-By Date

The great Shakespearean drama "Macbeth" issues a clear warning to power-hungry and unscrupulous leaders about the consequences of their actions. “T...

September 08, 2022 by By Gerry O'Shea

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KIRWAN: So Many Venues And All So Different

One of the interesting things about playing with Black 47 was that I became familiar with so many areas of the USA. By extension, I got a unique in...

September 07, 2022 by Larry Kirwan

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EDITORIAL: An Issue of Truss

The headline above the Fintan O'Toole column in the Irish Times did not make for comforting reading. It proclaimed: "Liz Truss will make Johnson se...

September 07, 2022 by Irish Echo Staff

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ADAMS: Looking Forward to the People's Assembly

Hardly a week passes now without politicians, bloggers and columnists writing about Irish unity and calling on the Dublin government to establish a...

September 01, 2022 by Gerry Adams

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O'SHEA: Surprises in the Irish Synod Report

About five years ago, I attended a lecture in Manhattan by an Irish Redemptorist priest, Fr. Tony Flannery. The event was sponsored by Call to Acti...

August 31, 2022 by By Gerry O'Shea

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EDITORIAL: Quid Pro Quo

The story of Irish immigration to America is just that - the story of Irish people migrating west across the Atlantic to the United States. It has ...

August 31, 2022 by Irish Echo Staff

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Adams: Well Worth Seeing 'The Troubles I’ve Seen'

During the Féile I went to watch '\"The Troubles I’ve Seen" in Áras Úi Chonghaile. I’m glad I did. "The Troubles I’ve Seen" is a documentary which ...

August 25, 2022 by Gerry Adams

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KIRWAN: NY When Celebrities Just Dropped In

I miss David Bowie. “Sure, what would the likes of you be doin’ hobnobbin’ with a superstar?” You might counter. Well, back in the late 1970s he bo...

August 25, 2022 by Larry Kirwan

Editoral: Terminal Troubles

For a variety of reasons, and sometimes no apparent reason at all, there has been chaos at world airports this summer. Dublin Airport is no excepti...

August 24, 2022 by Irish Echo Staff