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No Way to Run a Country
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No Way to Run a Country
This page could pen many pages on the state of America right now. It would make in large part for uncomfortable reading. At the time of writing the...
October 08, 2025 by Irish Echo Staff
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Gerry Adams: Catherine Connolly a candidate worth uniting for
ALL three candidates in the Presidential election have made commitments in support of Irish unity. Clear evidence of the growing importance of Iris...
October 06, 2025 by Gerry Adams
British Solvency Issue as a Path to Irish Unity
Economics is often made far too complicated. Talk of bonds, gilt yields, and fiscal multipliers often dull even the sharpest of minds. Yet, what “e...
October 04, 2025 by Dylan Egan

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KIRWAN: Multiple Homes But One Now Firmly Set
“You and me are neither here nor there, young fellah,” the auld lad said to me one night in The Archway. I wasn’t sure what he meant. He was probab...
October 02, 2025 by Larry Kirwan

The Battle of Bethpage
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The Battle of Bethpage
The expectation was that the crowds filling Bethpage Black would be loud and raucous. This expectation was met and surpassed. We have just witnesse...
October 01, 2025 by Irish Echo Staff
United and Divided
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United and Divided
You could reach for all manner of biblical references in describing this week's convening of the United Nations General Assembly. Try the parting o...
September 24, 2025 by Irish Echo Staff
America's Troubles
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America's Troubles
For years, too many years, we would hear about the urgent need to take the gun out of Irish life, political and beyond political. The Good Friday A...
September 18, 2025 by Irish Echo Staff
Hold That Sneeze
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Hold That Sneeze
The grand story of medical science took something of a hit last week when Florida's Surgeon General, Joseph A. Ladapo, announced plans to end all s...
September 10, 2025 by Irish Echo Staff
GERRY ADAMS: Little Englanders can’t decide our future
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GERRY ADAMS: Little Englanders can’t decide our future
PROBABLY more than any other politician in Britain Nigel Farage was responsible for winning the vote on Brexit in 2016. He exploited racism and ant...
September 08, 2025 by Gerry Adams
Labor Unions as Beacons of Hope
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Labor Unions as Beacons of Hope
“Make America Great Again.” I’ve often wondered to what era our president is referring. The 1950s springs to mind, but back then the U.S. had its h...
September 04, 2025 by Larry Kirwan
EDITORIAL: A Familiar Playbook
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EDITORIAL: A Familiar Playbook
President Michael D. Higgins will soon be taking his leave from the Irish presidency and with his absence there will be a verbal void to fill. Higg...
September 03, 2025 by Irish Echo Staff
GERRY ADAMS: I’m in awe of these extraordinary people
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GERRY ADAMS: I’m in awe of these extraordinary people
THE eight months of the 1981 hunger strike campaign changed the political landscape in Ireland. It was, as Síle Darragh, former OC of the republica...
September 01, 2025 by Gerry Adams
Hither and Yon
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Hither and Yon
As a newspaper founded by an immigrant we do well to keep an eye on emigration and immigration. Since passage of the 1965 Immigration and Naturaliz...
August 27, 2025 by Irish Echo Staff
LETTER: Preserve Neutrality
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LETTER: Preserve Neutrality
Editor: Irish governments have been determined to abandon Irish neutrality since the end of the Cold War and against the wishes and best interests ...
August 22, 2025 by Edward Horgan, Castletroy, Limerick
KIRWAN: Memories of Bay Ridge Still Linger
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KIRWAN: Memories of Bay Ridge Still Linger
New York neighborhoods used to be measured by the quality of their saloons. One of the reasons Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge always hovered near the top of ...
August 21, 2025 by Larry Kirwan
Changing By The Minute
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Changing By The Minute
There was a lot of teeth grinding last week as Americans, and people around the world, watched the arrival of Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Here was a ...
August 20, 2025 by Irish Echo Staff



 



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