Opinion
EDITORIAL: Tit For Tat Hurting Everyone
Perhaps it's a good thing that President Trump has not appointed a new U.S. Economic Envoy to Northern Ireland as some have urged. Had he done so, ...
April 09, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
GERRY ADAMS: Cherishing our history – and our future
The North began, the North held on,The strife for native land;When Ireland rose to smite her foesGod bless the Northern land.Thomas Davis IN the 17...
April 08, 2025
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
KIRWAN: Missing My Long Ago Influencers
There are a number of building blocks in any reasonably successful rock ‘n’ roll band. First of course, are the musicians themselves, followed clos...
April 08, 2025
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
LETTERS: HEAL Palestine Founder Thanks Echo Readers
Dear Editor, On behalf of HEAL Palestine, I want to express our deep gratitude to the Irish Echo and to the organizers of Keening for Gaza in New Y...
April 05, 2025
by LETTERS TO EDITOR
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
Opinion
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
Opinion
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
Opinion
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
Opinion
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
Opinion
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
Opinion
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
Opinion
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