Opinion

With its working class roots and boozy background, rock ‘n’ roll often teeters on the edge of chaos and violence. Rock music, on the other hand - u...

Editor: I write in response to the Irish Echo Opinion piece on Ireland's neutrality. Ireland's neutrality has been a cornerstone of its foreign pol...

Perhaps, in a throwback sort of way, it was appropriate. At the top of the letter ordering him to leave the United States Gabriel Megahy was not ad...

THERE is widespread anger at the decision by the Irish government to convert the historic GPO in Dublin into shops and offices. Last Saturday hundr...

The images from Texas have been heartbreaking. The flash floods in the state's Hill Country swept away the lives and dreams of hundreds. Lives were...

At a recent Ancient Order of Hibernians webinar on the Sean Brown case, National President Sean Pender described the British strategy for handling ...

Just about everyone in Ireland knows what you are referring to when you say "The GPO." Of late, the reference might be followed by a thought: what ...

THE Dublin GPO and the streets and laneways around it are forever linked with the Easter Rising of 1916. This is a battlefield site of major histor...

You will hear the joke in Ireland, variations of it. Only it's not entirely a joke. Someone will say that he or she was planning on a trip to the S...

Editor: It is popular to use a 100-day cycle to report progress or measure change particularly in government. More than one hundred days have now p...

Stefan Lutak was Ukrainian. He owned the Holiday Cocktail Lounge on St. Mark’s Place. Despite its name it was a beer-and-shot joint I stumbled into...

And now for a little good news. We could do with it. And the news is that a sliver of green, a tiny urban oasis in Manhattan, has survived after a ...