Opinion
  Opinion: Expect more shockwaves as tariff wars bring peak globalism to an end
    The key question that kept coming up in our business in the last few months is what the impact of Trump 2.0 will be on our business and consequentl...
  
    April 03, 2025
    by Danny Moore
  
 
    
      
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  LETTER: The Big Lie
    Editor: I had the honor of meeting prominent English journalist John Ware when he spoke some years ago in Washington, D.C. about the Troubles in No...
  
    April 02, 2025
    by Fr. Sean McManus
  
 
    
      
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  EDITORIAL: Taxes on the Road to Reunification
    Back on March 12, as Taoiseach Micheál Martin sat with a fixed smile on his face in the Oval Office and President Trump did most of the talking, it...
  
    April 02, 2025
    by Irish Echo Staff
  
 
    
      
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  GERRY ADAMS: Can it really be eight years since Martin died?
    FRIDAY past was the eighth anniversary of the death of our friend and leader Martin McGuinness. Like many others, I am sure, I was perplexed as it ...
  
    April 01, 2025
    by Gerry Adams
  
 
    
      
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  LETTER: Need to Reconsider
    Editor: Thank you for your article "Firing and Resignations Rock the AIHS." This article should have every Irish American to take time to think how...
  
    March 27, 2025
    by Marilyn Madigan
  
 
    
      
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  EDITORIAL: No Irish Spring
    "The list of potential tripwires to disaster was lengthy and, to Martin’s officials, terrifying. I have never seen such obvious stress as I saw on ...
  
    March 26, 2025
    by Irish Echo Staff
  
 
    
      
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  OPINION:  Time to make St Patrick's Day a public holiday in the North of Ireland
    This editorial was first published in the Andersonstown News, our sister paper in the North of Ireland where St Patrick's Day is not a public holid...
  
    March 23, 2025
    by The Editor, Andersonstown News
  
 
    
      
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  KIRWAN: Danger Crossing an Asphalt Canal
    Canal Street in Lower Manhattan runs just over a mile from East Broadway to West Street. It’s big, broad and bustling and many the famous person fr...
  
    March 20, 2025
    by Larry Kirwan
  
 
    
      
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  LETTER: No Room For Hedging 
    Editor: At the Irish Echo-supported HEAL Palestine fundraiser on Feb. 26, many longtime supporters of Irish freedom were there. Of course, our comm...
  
    March 19, 2025
    by John Francis Mulligan
  
 
    
      
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  EDITORIAL: A Bad Hand Well Enough Played
    Taoiseach Micheál Martin came and went. On his own steam. He duly delivered the bowl of shamrock and could probably pat himself on the back for avo...
  
    March 19, 2025
    by Irish Echo Staff
  
 
    
      
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  GERRY ADAMS: Belfast gets ready to welcome the world
    IT has been a very busy and eventful couple of weeks for all of those who speak and enjoy the Irish language and who have campaigned for decades ag...
  
    March 18, 2025
    by Gerry Adams
  
 
    
      
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  Opinion: Why, this St. Patrick's Day, I'm urging President Trump to appoint an N.I. Envoy
    This year, as we mark the 101st anniversary of diplomatic relations between the United States and the Republic of Ireland, we celebrate a partnersh...
  
    March 15, 2025
    by Rep. Mike Lawler