Opinion
EDITORIAL: Oh Dear, Still A Guest
You sometimes wonder what it takes to tell an ambassador from another country to pack the bags and take a hike. In the case of Yury Anatoliyevich F...
July 12, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
ADAMS: The Debate on Irish Unity Steps Up
Two successful events on the future of Ireland were held in Belfast and Dublin last week. The atmosphere and enthusiasm at both events was mighty. ...
July 10, 2023
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
Opinion: 50 Years On, Wounded Knee occupation to be marked in Ireland
Looking back on the seventies, the greatest divide, I suspect, between the Irish of the North of Ireland and the Irish of America was in their atti...
July 07, 2023
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
Opinion
O'SHEA: The Legacy of Racism and Slavery in Ireland
The Berkeley Library in Trinity College Dublin was built in the late 1960s and in 1978 it was named after one of its famous graduates, George Berke...
July 06, 2023
by By Gerry O'Shea
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Tarnished Isle
"Dangerous plumes of smoke disrupting activity as air pollution pesters people across Canada.' That was an online headline in the Toronto Globe and...
July 05, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
KIRWAN The Welcome Return of Paddy Reilly's
So Paddy Reilly’s has reopened. Welcome back. Though your absence was short, you were missed. It’s not just that New York City is daily becoming le...
June 29, 2023
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
ADAMS: Threat to Irish Neutrality Must be Challenged
Last June, Micheál Martin, the then taoiseach, attacked the decades long neutrality policy of the Irish state. He claimed that; “We need to reflect...
June 29, 2023
by Gerry Adams
EDITORIAL: Neutrality and Security
Ireland has been going through one of its periodic brainstorms on the matter of neutrality. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is significantly respon...
June 28, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
ADAMS: Stop the Demolition of Moore Street
The threat of demolition to parts of the Moore Street Terrace, a place that played a central role in the Easter Rising, has increased significantly...
June 22, 2023
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
O'SHEA: So What was Donald Trump Thinking?
Reading the 44-page indictment document prepared by Special Prosecutor, Jack Smith, one question kept recurring to me: what was Donald Trump thinki...
June 21, 2023
by By Gerry O'Shea
Opinion
EDITORIAL: One Euro at a Time
Northern Ireland is something of an economic crossroads. After all, it is a place of interest and direct involvement on the part of London, Dublin,...
June 21, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
KIRWAN: Good Vibrations Coming to IAC
Everything changed in November 1976 when The Sex Pistols released Anarchy In the UK. Punk was born. Yeah, yeah, I know Punk began in CBGB’s a coupl...
June 16, 2023
by Larry Kirwan