Opinion
A Day Victims Have Long Dreaded
The British Government’s controversial new law, the NI Troubles (Reconciliation & Legacy) Act, becomes live this week, Wednesday, May 1. It had pre...
May 01, 2024
by Mark Thompson
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Wild Everywhere
There's a TV mini-series currently running and it tells the story of Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves. Reeves is a true historical character, a slav...
May 01, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
OPINION: Buffalo still rising despite pain to the power of Ten
On Wednesday past, I had the great good fortune to meet in Dublin the Boston architect Michael Murphy who designed the six-acre Lynching Memorial s...
April 30, 2024
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
O'SHEA: The Thousand Year Question of Celibacy
The name of Charles Scicluna is unlikely to resonate with readers, yet he is playing a major role in deciding whether the Catholic Church should ch...
April 25, 2024
by By Gerry O'Shea
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Bipartisan The Way To Go
Perhaps we in Irish America are spoiled. We have been long used to using the word "bipartisan" in headlines and stories dealing with Congress and i...
April 24, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Technology Goes Postal And The Innocent Suffer
“You Are The Only One." The cynical phrase used by the Post Office to ensnare innocent victims. The Post Office scandal in the UK (including Northe...
April 23, 2024
by By Seamus Scanlon
Opinion
KIRWAN: Remembering The King of Second Avenue
They don’t make them like Steve Duggan anymore. The question is – did they ever? The Monsignor was like many immigrants – neither here nor there. H...
April 18, 2024
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
EDITORIAL: In A Russian Trance
Some who should know better should take a lesson from the determined group of people who have maintained a permanent picket outside the Russian Emb...
April 17, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
O'SHEA: Decision Time In And For Ukraine
When Ukraine’s top military commander spoke last November of a stalemate in the war, most people understood this to mean that the conflict was froz...
April 11, 2024
by By Gerry O'Shea
Opinion
EDITORIAL: A New Taoiseach
Well, that was simple and easy enough. The transfer of executive power in a parliamentary democracy can be sometimes difficult, sometimes relativel...
April 10, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
All Come to Look for America, but this time by RV and wearing a mask
My DUP buddy Sammy Douglas enjoys getting up in front of American audiences visiting Belfast and telling them, in somber tones, that he is here to ...
April 06, 2024
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
Opinion
O'SHEA: An Ireland Beyond the Old Stereotypes
I had a discussion with a Jewish friend recently about the continuing tendency among many people to hold on to old ethnic and racial stereotypes. H...
April 05, 2024
by By Gerry O'Shea
O'SHEA: The Thousand Year Question of Celibacy
O'SHEA: Decision Time In And For Ukraine
