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
Opinion
O'SHEA: Changing Economics on the Island of Ireland
A hundred years ago the economy in Belfast and its hinterland was booming led by shipbuilding and the burgeoning linen industry. With help from the...
June 08, 2023
by By Gerry O'Shea
Opinion
EDITORIAL: A Beef With Beef
As last week ended the Guardian newspaper ran a series of stories that would have not made the weekend a comforting one for anyone fearful for the ...
June 07, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
KIRWAN: Forever Going Up The Country
"I’m going up the country, Baby, don’t you wanta go, Going to take you some place, Where you’ve never been before, I’m going, I’m going, Where the ...
June 01, 2023
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
ADAMS: The Killing of Eddie Fullerton
In March 1984 I was shot as I and four friends drove from Belfast Court. We were driving up May Street at the back of the City Hall when our car wa...
June 01, 2023
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
EDITORIAL: From All Sides
The opposition to the British government's determination to see full passage and implementation of the legacy bill for Northern Ireland. Last week ...
May 31, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
ADAMS: Ar Slí An Fhirinne - On The Way Of Truth
It’s the age we’re at. I tell myself and my declining peer group this as we attend funeral after funeral this last wee while. The great wheel of li...
May 25, 2023
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
O'SHEA; The Unending Banality of Evil
Can one do evil acts without being evil? This was the deep and puzzling question raised by the philosopher Hannah Arendt when she reported for The ...
May 25, 2023
by Gerry O'Shea