Opinion
Top of the Class
Back in the Penal Law days education in Ireland was proceeding along parallel lines. These lines were wide apart; very wide indeed. In terms of the...
June 04, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
GERRY ADAMS: BBCNI's attempt to demonise me rejected by libel jury
THE success of my case against the British Broadcasting Corporation is an important and very significant breach of that institution's monopoly on h...
June 03, 2025
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
LETTER: A Pearse Statue
Editor: On Easter Monday 1916 Patrick Pearse stepped out of the General Post Office and read aloud the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. In that ...
June 02, 2025
by Phil Boyle
Opinion
KIRWAN: A Stolen Kiss That Still Feels Magical
What a blast to move to New York from Wexford town - the size, the bustle, and the sheer moxie of the city, but also the originality and diversity ...
May 29, 2025
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
Own Goal
It's fair to say that soccer fans in the U.S. and around the world are looking forward to the World Cup next year. The 2026 competition will be the...
May 28, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
GERRY ADAMS: Words don't come easy to me – or at least they didn't use to
WHEN I was younger I had a stammer. I don’t know what age I was. Somewhere between seven and ten perhaps. A youngster! I grew out of my speech impe...
May 27, 2025
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
LETTER: God Forbid
Editor: I would like to offer comment on the front page article "Eyeing the Exits?: Many Exploring Irish Citizenship, Passports" (Feb. 26 - March 4...
May 22, 2025
by Sean F.X.
Opinion
Chipping Away
The news that former president Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer is indeed sad. But in a health care system t...
May 21, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
GERRY ADAMS: Time for Dublin to act on its Presidential promises
IN a historic vote in the Assembly last week, members overwhelmingly passed by 46 votes to 25 a motion calling on the Irish government to implement...
May 19, 2025
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
LETTER: Irish America's Role
Editor: In the past The United States has had a historic leadership role in brokering peace in other countries. These efforts were seen as integral...
May 14, 2025
by Kathleen M Whitford
Opinion
Absent Woman
The movie "Conclave" was widely viewed before the actual Conclave last week that elected Pope Leo XIV. Doubtless it has been viewed many times sinc...
May 14, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
GERRY ADAMS: Swinger was brave, strong and a gentleman through and through
I SPENT the last week in Dublin in the Four Courts as part of the outworking of my case against the BBC’s Spotlight programme nine years ago. But m...
May 12, 2025
by Gerry Adams
