Opinion
GERRY ADAMS: Search for Disappeared deserves support of all
IN the 1970s the IRA shot dead and secretly buried a number of people. This is a terrible legacy of that period of our history. The families of tho...
February 16, 2024
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
O'SHEA: Unionist Unease Amid Stormont Return
The concept of losers’ consent is central to American politics since Donald Trump refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s victory in t...
February 14, 2024
by Gerry O'Shea
Opinion
EDITORIAL: America Deserves Better
On Tuesday morning, February 13, the Washington Post reported thus: "The Senate passed a $95 billion national security package to aid Israel, Ukrai...
February 14, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
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KIRWAN: The Enduring Legacy of 'The Silent Sentinels'
They were called The Silent Sentinels. Members of the National Woman’s Party, 33 of them were sentenced to prison in November 1917 for protesting o...
February 09, 2024
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
ADAMS: Something Truly Fundamental Has Happened
The restoration last Saturday of the political institutions and the election of Michelle O'Neill as First Minister marks an extraordinary turning p...
February 08, 2024
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
EDITORIAL: And Finally.....
Northern Ireland has been waiting for this. Waiting not just for the two years since the last Assembly election, but waiting since its very foundat...
February 07, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
ADAMS: Comhghairdeas to Kneecap's Sundance Success
Comhghairdeas Kneecap as an rath a bhí ar bhur scannán ag féile scannán Sundance. Last August I travelled over to a studio close to Queen’s Univers...
February 01, 2024
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
O'SHEA: Some Reflections on a Changing Ireland
“You talk to me of nationality, language, religion,” Stephen Dedalus declared in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. “I shall try to fly by thos...
January 31, 2024
by By Gerry O'Shea
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Never Again.....But
There's no doubt that what is going on in Gaza is horrific. There's no doubt that what triggered the Israeli invasion - that being the Hamas attack...
January 31, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
KIRWAN: Tis The Year That's In It
Well, it’s finally here – 2024, the year of the bitch! Rest assured, sisters, this has nothing to do with any gender-based slur, rather a recogniti...
January 25, 2024
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
ADAMS: High Time Time for Clarity
The question – will he or won’t he – has yet to be answered. Will Jeffrey Donaldson provide the leadership needed to persuade his party to go back ...
January 25, 2024
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
0'SHEA: A World of Two Wars
The world is galvanized by the awful daily reports from Ukraine and Gaza, with the future direction of both conflicts very unsure. As American supp...
January 25, 2024
by By Gerry O'Shea