Archive for the ‘Editorial’ category

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Saving schools

It’s back to school season, although increasingly teachers and students don’t cut their ties over the long summer break. There are those, too, who in a sense have never left school. The Echo has reported separately in recent months about three such people who’ve who retained close attachments to and indeed love for their alma [...]

Published by admin on September 2nd, 2010 at 06:09 am
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Freedom on Park Place

The New York Times conservative columnist Ross Douthat penned a characteristically nuanced contribution on the question of the Park Place center 10 days ago. In “Islam in Two Americas,” he suggested that “Nativist concerns about Catholicism’s illiberal tendencies inspired American Catholics to prod their church toward a recognition of the virtues of democracy, making it [...]

Published by admin on August 25th, 2010 at 08:08 am
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Why Derry is my choice for culture capital

By Martin McGuinness Derry is my home town and I have a special interest in this competition (which seeks to choose the UK City of Culture 2013). I have always been extremely proud of the city and its people.  The way the local communities have been pulling together in support of the bid has been [...]

Published by admin on July 8th, 2010 at 07:07 am
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Disruptive eruption

As if things weren’t bad enough for the travel the airline business but a volcano in Iceland decided to wake up after almost two hundred years and spew ash over a broad swathe of the Atlantic Ocean and Europe. The result was chaos and a level of transatlantic flight cancellations not seen since the immediate [...]

Published by admin on April 21st, 2010 at 07:04 am
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A big step

The Northern Ireland peace process has never been a smooth process. It has stopped and started, stumbled and hesitated. There have been times when in went into a state of virtual suspension. But it has moved forward nevertheless, and, this week, it has taken a big stride with the inclusion in the power sharing structure [...]

Published by admin on April 14th, 2010 at 09:04 am
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Welcome back

The new GAA season has opened at Gaelic Park in the Bronx and three cheers for that. Three cheers indeed for the return of Gaelic games wherever they are played in North America. Those games, for as long as they have been codified, have been played, and indeed revered, by the American Irish. In recent [...]

Published by admin on April 14th, 2010 at 09:04 am
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O’Hara doesn’t need Oscar to shine

I read with interest the piece written by Des MacHale, “Maureen O’Hara deserves Oscar for life’s work.” It is true, Maureen may have been passed over for performance and lifetime achievement by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, but to say she is more deserving than those they do select would be inappropriate. [...]

Published by admin on April 7th, 2010 at 01:04 pm
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Phoebe had nowhere to run, nowhere to hide

By Ray O’Hanlon I’m chasing my tail each and every day with regard to technology. I work with a computer, yes, use email, yes. In terms of the global human population I’m actually both advance and privileged in a technological sense. But when compared to my kids I’m a caveman. A concerned caveman, mind. There [...]

Published by admin on April 7th, 2010 at 01:04 pm