Opinion
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...
October 06, 2025
by Gerry Adams
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...
October 04, 2025
by Dylan Egan
Opinion
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...
October 02, 2025
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
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...
October 01, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
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...
September 24, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
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...
September 18, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
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...
September 10, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
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...
September 08, 2025
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
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...
September 04, 2025
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
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...
September 03, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
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...
September 01, 2025
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
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...
August 27, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff