Opinion
ADAMS: Stardust Disaster Families Demand Truth
The inquest into the Stardust disaster opened in Dublin last week. The list of the dead from that terrible event in February 1981 is heartbreakingl...
May 04, 2023
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
EDITORIAL: All Air No Lift
With the fighting getting worse in Khartoum the Irish government had to act. But act with what? Other countries, not least the United States, were ...
May 03, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
O'SHEA: A War With No End in Sight
The two sides are so far apart in the war in Ukraine that there is no end in sight. President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated repeatedly that they wi...
April 26, 2023
by Gerry O'Shea
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Doing Ninety at Eighty
So Joe Biden is running for a second term. That was the worst kept secret in Washington, and even less of a secret for anyone who kept a close eye ...
April 26, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
ADAMS: Battling Demonization, Standing For Rights
Among those who attended the Easter Sunday commemoration in Belfast two weeks ago was John Montgomery. I haven’t seen John in many years and it was...
April 20, 2023
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
EDITORIAL: An Inner Bounce
At one point during President Joe Biden's four day visit to Ireland last week a commentator in one newspaper opined that the president was unlikely...
April 19, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Taking the kids medals away
I possess two what I will call here “participation medals.” One, which came down directly to me a couple of generations, was for membership of a re...
April 14, 2023
by Peter McDermott
Opinion
Biting our tongues while Biden builds a golden bridge
IT was grin-and-bear it time for the majority community in the North of Ireland — and for the majority of Ulster University students — yesterday as...
April 14, 2023
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Biden's Irish Sojourn
President Joe Biden is in Ireland for four days this week. Some might say that Biden is always in Ireland one way or another. Certainly, Ireland, a...
April 12, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
ADAMS: A Warm House for Everyone
I am writing this column in New York. Richard and I are here for the weekend working on my remarks for Monday night when President Bill Clinton and...
April 06, 2023
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
EDITORIAL: The Work Continues
The Good Friday Agreement was remembered, saluted and tasked with even more work in the years ahead at a grand gathering Monday evening at Cooper U...
April 05, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
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ADAMS: The Good Friday Agreement Protects Everyone
At the beginning of the month Jeffrey Donaldson established a panel, which includes Peter Robinson, Arlene Foster and some business and legal peopl...
March 30, 2023
by Gerry Adams