OPINION: Today's Cooper Union Summit is Direction Sign on Road to Unity
Today, Friday, the first of March, portends to be a watershed moment in the focus of Irish-America on the issue of Irish national reunification. Sp...
March 01, 2024
by Brian McCabe
Opinion
O'SHEA: The Harsh Reality of Inequality in America
The United States can be proud of its record in promoting political rights - free speech and adherence to the rule of law, which mandates treating ...
February 29, 2024
by By Gerry O'Shea
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Dreams Now Taking Form
Even during the worst days of the conflict in Northern Ireland people would dream of a peaceful and united future. However, if they voiced such a v...
February 28, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
OPINION: Now is the Time to Push for Irish Unity
We live in a time of a shifting world order, which inevitably comes with transitional instability. The unity movement and Irish America more broadl...
February 26, 2024
by Dylan Egan
Opinion
KIRWAN: Spanning Divides and Widening Gulfs
Michelle O’Neill’s elevation to become Northern Ireland’s First Minister was a momentous event, full of hope and possibility. Even in the glory day...
February 22, 2024
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Staunch Friends And Wavering Friends
Back at the beginning of February the European Union, all 27 member states, Ireland duly included, agreed on a fifty billion euro ($54 billion) eco...
February 21, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
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