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Adams: Time for a Global Presidential Vote
Last week I wrote about the threat posed to our world by climate change. The international climate change conference, COP27, which commenced in Egy...
November 10, 2022
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
O'SHEA: Reflections and Memories of an Immigrant
I came to America on a student visa in the summer of 1968. I travelled with a college friend, Ignatius Coffey, who hails from Labasheeda in County ...
November 09, 2022
by By Gerry O'Shea
Opinion
Editorial: NO COPPING OUT THIS TIME
Once again the nations of the world, under the collective roof that is the United Nations, are assembling to tackle the advancing scourge of climat...
November 09, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
KIRWAN: New and a Long Time Coming
I recently spent a week in Ireland. I usually take a group over annually on a historical/musical tour, but because of the pandemic this was my firs...
November 03, 2022
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
ADAMS: Another Conference Faces the Climate Crisis
This weekend the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 27 – the Conference of the Parties) will begin in Sharm El Sheikh, in Egypt. It will...
November 03, 2022
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
O'SHEA: These Midterm Elections Are Hard to Call
When John Healy, the great Irish Times columnist in the 1970s, faced covering a bewildering political situation in Ireland he would playfully plead...
November 02, 2022
by By Gerry O'Shea
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Two's Company
Ah, here we are. Another election. An opportunity to jump up and down with joy as we one again exercise our democratic rights. Well, not entirely. ...
November 02, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
ADAMS: Conway Mill Celebrates its 40th Birthday
Conway Mill has been at the heart of West Belfast for over almost 200 years. First as a hard place of work for generations of local people, mainly ...
October 27, 2022
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Hard Times Ahead....Again
Another week another British Prime Minister. This week, for sure, a history making one in that Rishi Sunak is the first non-white and Hindu occupan...
October 26, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
ADAMS: Wee Baby Brothers and Sisters
We are probably not all listed here in proper chronological order. I rarely get anyone’s birthday right. It’s hard to keep track. We are now reduce...
October 20, 2022
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
KIRWAN: Joyously In The Thick Of It
It’s not often you open your mailbox and find a picture of you taken 45 years ago, especially when it’s the cover of an album you’d recorded back i...
October 19, 2022
by Larry Kirwan
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EDITORIAL: A Long Hard Road
More footage has emerged in recent days of the dramatic events of January 6, 2021, specifically the efforts of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senat...
October 19, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff