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Gerry Adams: Catherine Connolly a candidate worth uniting for
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Gerry Adams: Catherine Connolly a candidate worth uniting for
ALL three candidates in the Presidential election have made commitments in support of Irish unity. Clear evidence of the growing importance of Iris...
British Solvency Issue as a Path to Irish Unity British Solvency Issue as a Path to Irish Unity
Economics is often made far too complicated. Talk of bonds, gilt yields, and fiscal multipliers often dull even the sharpest of minds. Yet, what “e...
KIRWAN: Multiple Homes But One Now Firmly Set
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KIRWAN: Multiple Homes But One Now Firmly Set
“You and me are neither here nor there, young fellah,” the auld lad said to me one night in The Archway. I wasn’t sure what he meant. He was probab...
The Battle of Bethpage
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The Battle of Bethpage
The expectation was that the crowds filling Bethpage Black would be loud and raucous. This expectation was met and surpassed. We have just witnesse...
United and Divided
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United and Divided
You could reach for all manner of biblical references in describing this week's convening of the United Nations General Assembly. Try the parting o...
America's Troubles
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America's Troubles
For years, too many years, we would hear about the urgent need to take the gun out of Irish life, political and beyond political. The Good Friday A...
Hold That Sneeze
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Hold That Sneeze
The grand story of medical science took something of a hit last week when Florida's Surgeon General, Joseph A. Ladapo, announced plans to end all s...
GERRY ADAMS: Little Englanders can’t decide our future
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GERRY ADAMS: Little Englanders can’t decide our future
PROBABLY more than any other politician in Britain Nigel Farage was responsible for winning the vote on Brexit in 2016. He exploited racism and ant...
Labor Unions as Beacons of Hope
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Labor Unions as Beacons of Hope
“Make America Great Again.” I’ve often wondered to what era our president is referring. The 1950s springs to mind, but back then the U.S. had its h...
EDITORIAL: A Familiar Playbook
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EDITORIAL: A Familiar Playbook
President Michael D. Higgins will soon be taking his leave from the Irish presidency and with his absence there will be a verbal void to fill. Higg...
GERRY ADAMS: I’m in awe of these extraordinary people
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GERRY ADAMS: I’m in awe of these extraordinary people
THE eight months of the 1981 hunger strike campaign changed the political landscape in Ireland. It was, as Síle Darragh, former OC of the republica...
Hither and Yon
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Hither and Yon
As a newspaper founded by an immigrant we do well to keep an eye on emigration and immigration. Since passage of the 1965 Immigration and Naturaliz...



 



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