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  EDITORIAL: All Astir in New York
    It's the week of the opening of the General Assembly in New York and midtown Manhattan is in its usual state of General Assembly chaos with street ...
  
    September 25, 2024
    by Irish Echo Staff
  
 
    
       
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  GERRY ADAMS: Decision, decisions: Let’s make our own
    BRITISH government policy toward Ireland has long been dictated by Britain’s strategic self-interests. From the conquest of Ireland nine centuries ...
  
    September 23, 2024
    by Gerry Adams
  
 
    
       
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  KIRWAN: Going About Writing a Song
    Caption with Paul: Caption with WB: Caption with Cash jpg: I’m often asked, “How do you write a song?” If you were to ask how to write a play or a ...
  
    September 19, 2024
    by Larry Kirwan
  
 
    
       
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  EDITORIAL: When An Apple.....
    Oh well, sometimes you have to take the lumps and the bruises. The Irish government is contemplating legal bumps and bruises after the Court of Jus...
  
    September 18, 2024
    by Irish Echo Staff
  
 
    
       
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  GERRY ADAMS: Governments must act on social media hate
    THERE has been a significant increase in recent times in far right racist, Islamophobic and hate attacks on social media. The purpose of these has ...
  
    September 16, 2024
    by Gerry Adams
  
 
    
       
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  O'SHEA: The Scourge of Inequality in America
    Gustavo Gutierrez, the famous Peruvian theologian, defines poverty as “premature and unjust death,” explaining that “the poor person is someone who...
  
    September 12, 2024
    by By Gerry O'Shea
  
 
    
       
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  EDITORIAL: Unions Rising Albeit Slowly
    About seven in 10 Americans say they approve of labor unions. This is just points away from the record-high approval rating for organized labor, ac...
  
    September 11, 2024
    by Irish Echo Staff
  
 
    
       
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  Unwelcome Words that Echo the Know Nothings
    JD Vance's recent statements that the Irish immigrants fleeing the Great Hunger were responsible for higher crime rates is in the centuries old tra...
  
    September 09, 2024
    by Brian O'Dwyer
  
 
    
       
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  O'SHEA: The Small Matter of Taxing Billionaires
    The G20 is an intergovernmental group of 19 powerful countries, plus European and African Union representatives, who meet annually to discuss a uni...
  
    September 05, 2024
    by By Gerry O'Shea
  
 
    
       
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  EDITORIAL: Immigration an Issue Waiting to be Addressed
    Immigration might not be a third rail in American politics but it is for sure a hot potato. It will be interesting to see if Kamala Harris and Dona...
  
    September 04, 2024
    by Irish Echo Staff
  
 
    
       
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  O'SHEA: The Boundary Commission Report at 100
    In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a vibrant Irish Parliamentary Party represented Irish nationalistaspirations and demands in Westminster....
  
    August 29, 2024
    by By Gerry O'Shea
  
 
    
       
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  EDITORIAL: Ireland's Revolving Green Door
    Ireland, the Republic part of it, is a busy place these times with people coming and people going. But more are coming in according to the latest n...
  
    August 27, 2024
    by Irish Echo Staff