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EDITORIAL: High Speeds Over Short Distances
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EDITORIAL: High Speeds Over Short Distances
All road trips are local. In the United States they can be short or long. In Ireland they can be short and long too, albeit in a relative sense whe...
GERRY ADAMS: Fresh chance to save 1916 Battlefield from developers GERRY ADAMS: Fresh chance to save 1916 Battlefield from developers
The campaign to save the 1916 Moore Street Battlefield site and those iconic buildings and streetscape that are forever linked to the most importan...
EDITORIAL: Adrian Flannelly
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EDITORIAL: Adrian Flannelly
Back in 2021 Adrian Flannelly was one of four U.S.-based recipients of the Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad. Flannelly...
KIRWAN: The Very Best of the Best
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KIRWAN: The Very Best of the Best
It’s a difficult time for musicians. And yet, the world is teeming with music. The problem is – so few are getting paid for their efforts. Suffice ...
EDITORIAL: An Irish Farewell
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EDITORIAL: An Irish Farewell
It was the kind of reluctant departure that Irish people are long familiar with. It was characterized by stubborn resistance, obvious pride, and no...
GERRY ADAMS: Dunnes Stores strikers are Irish heroes
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GERRY ADAMS: Dunnes Stores strikers are Irish heroes
FORTY years ago this month, ten workers from the Henry Street branch of Dunnes Stores in Dublin's city centre went on strike to protest against the...
KIRWAN: Time Catches Up With Us All
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KIRWAN: Time Catches Up With Us All
The jig is up, Joe. I don’t mean to be disrespectful, Mr. President, for the most part you’ve done a great job but time catches up with all of us a...
EDITORIAL: A Dark Day
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EDITORIAL: A Dark Day
The attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump was a dark day in American political life; not the first, and likely not the last. It ...
Opinion: Irish networks, orgs caught in fallout from Fearless Fund lawsuit
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Opinion: Irish networks, orgs caught in fallout from Fearless Fund lawsuit
The federal discrimination lawsuit against the Fearless Fund and Fearless Foundation currently stands to completely upend the ability for organizat...
O'SHEA: 'Cafeteria Catholics' Have Their Say
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O'SHEA: 'Cafeteria Catholics' Have Their Say
Accusing someone of being a cafeteria Catholic implies that the person picks and chooses what he or she believes from the broad board of church tea...
EDITORIAL: A Return to Calmer Waters
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EDITORIAL: A Return to Calmer Waters
Two European countries just voted. Nobody stormed anything and this includes France, home of the original storming. In the British general election...
KIRWAN: America's Soul is Out There...Somewhere
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KIRWAN: America's Soul is Out There...Somewhere
The great Chesterton remarked that “travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.” To which Mark Twain added, “travel is fatal to prejudice...

 



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