Opinion
EDITORIAL: Tarnished Isle
"Dangerous plumes of smoke disrupting activity as air pollution pesters people across Canada.' That was an online headline in the Toronto Globe and...
July 05, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
KIRWAN The Welcome Return of Paddy Reilly's
So Paddy Reilly’s has reopened. Welcome back. Though your absence was short, you were missed. It’s not just that New York City is daily becoming le...
June 29, 2023
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
ADAMS: Threat to Irish Neutrality Must be Challenged
Last June, Micheál Martin, the then taoiseach, attacked the decades long neutrality policy of the Irish state. He claimed that; “We need to reflect...
June 29, 2023
by Gerry Adams
EDITORIAL: Neutrality and Security
Ireland has been going through one of its periodic brainstorms on the matter of neutrality. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is significantly respon...
June 28, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
ADAMS: Stop the Demolition of Moore Street
The threat of demolition to parts of the Moore Street Terrace, a place that played a central role in the Easter Rising, has increased significantly...
June 22, 2023
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
O'SHEA: So What was Donald Trump Thinking?
Reading the 44-page indictment document prepared by Special Prosecutor, Jack Smith, one question kept recurring to me: what was Donald Trump thinki...
June 21, 2023
by By Gerry O'Shea
Opinion
EDITORIAL: One Euro at a Time
Northern Ireland is something of an economic crossroads. After all, it is a place of interest and direct involvement on the part of London, Dublin,...
June 21, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
KIRWAN: Good Vibrations Coming to IAC
Everything changed in November 1976 when The Sex Pistols released Anarchy In the UK. Punk was born. Yeah, yeah, I know Punk began in CBGB’s a coupl...
June 16, 2023
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
ADAMS: St. Comgall’s and Eileen Howell
St. Comgall’s/Ionad Eileen Howell in Divis Street will be formally opened next week, on Thursday, June 22. The multi-million pound project has been...
June 15, 2023
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
O'SHEA: A Call for Spiritual Revival in America
In a recent article in the Daily Beast titled “The Left needs a Spiritual Renaissance. So Does America,” Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut and ...
June 15, 2023
by By Gerry O'Shea
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Out of Bounds
The U.S. Open Golf Championship will take place in Los Angeles over the coming days. What's the bet that not all the talk will focus on the state o...
June 14, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
ADAMS: On The Wheels of Time
I have given my good bike away. This marks a defining moment in my life. My good bike sat in the backyard for almost a year. That’s the last time I...
June 08, 2023
by Gerry Adams