Opinion
EDITORIAL: A Week to Remember
Few in Ireland are going to quickly forget the last week of July 2026. It all began with tumultuous celebrations after Mayo cast aside 75 years of ...
August 05, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
Rolling out green carpet for Teamsters' Pres as Fleadh fever grips Belfast
For a guy who gets sick on the Strangford ferry, I took to the inaugural Irish Echo Maritime Awards in New York this past April like a duck to wate...
July 31, 2026
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
Opinion
EDITORIAL: An Expanding Calamity
Amid all the alarming reports of fires, floods and heat domes around the world in recent weeks and months there was a report that, in only a slight...
July 29, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
GERRY ADAMS: Féile opens another chapter on women’s experience
FÉILE an Phobail is the launch pad each year of exiting new projects, and especially new books. One such book this year is ‘Women’s Voices, Hopes f...
July 28, 2026
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
EDITORIAL: The Golden Goal
If you went back to the beginning of the just completed World Cup and asked yourself this question: "What in all of this is the golden goal? Well, ...
July 22, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
Pride Leading to Many Falls
In 1979 Pope John Paul II visited Ireland, the first Pope to do so. British authorities were annoyed and fearful for his safety in Northern Ireland...
July 20, 2026
by By Michael Cummings
Opinion
GERRY ADAMS: No surprises from Micheál Martin on unity vote
THE decision by Micheál Martin last week to oppose Sinn Féin’s ‘Planning for Constitutional Change Bill 2026’ was no real surprise. His opposition ...
July 20, 2026
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
EDITORIAL: In The Spirit of 'Dagger John'
County Tyrone is sometimes referred to as "the hard country." This not in the context of scenery, but in the county's role over the centuries in Ir...
July 15, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
LETTER: Film a Due Honor
Editor: A new film made for Galway based TG4 is about a young football team in North Belfast at the start of the Troubles has been selected to be s...
July 09, 2026
by Raymond McCord
Opinion
KIRWAN: Changes Between Leaving and Returning
Towns change. We leave them one way, and find them so different when we return. Wexford is a case in point. So many people now live on its outskirt...
July 09, 2026
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Cup Runneth Over
Well, what to make of this World Cup. No Irish representation unless you count Cape Verde's Pico Lopes. And sure why not. Lopes and his extraordina...
July 08, 2026
by Leader Column
Opinion
GERRY ADAMS: A new plan for 1916 battlefield site is the way forward
THE 1916 Moore Street Battlefield site in the centre of Dublin is a hugely important historical and cultural location whose significance has been i...
July 07, 2026
by Gerry Adams
