 O'SHEA: The Thousand Year Question of Celibacy
  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
  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
  
 
    
       
    Opinion
  KIRWAN: Humming Along, Humming and Humming
    There are bands, and then there are great bands. What makes a band great? Well, obviously, the members, particularly if one, or all, have a vision....
  
    April 04, 2024
    by Larry Kirwan
  
 
    
       
    Opinion
  EDITORIAL: A Shocking Turn
    As political earthquakes go on the island of Ireland this was as high up on the scale as you'll get. That's because the earthquake went far beyond ...
  
    April 03, 2024
    by Irish Echo Staff
  
 
    
       
    Opinion
  Hope and History on the Island of Ireland
    Once again, hope and history rhymed on the island of Ireland when Michelle O’Neill, the 47-year-old Vice President of Sinn Fein from County Tyrone,...
  
    March 28, 2024
    by Richard E. Neal