Opinion
EDITORIAL Time For That Envoy
Politics in Northern Ireland could be turned on its head this week. And that's just the politics. Add in the Good Friday Agreement, Brexit and the ...
May 04, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
A Ship and the Embodiment of Irish America's Soul
Just a couple of weeks ago, on April 14, media outlets were showing dramatic images of the USS The Sullivans, a World War II destroyer that was on ...
April 28, 2022
by By Neil F. Cosgrove
Opinion
ADAMS: May 5th is The Peoples Day
It's the final countdown to polling day and the pundits and pollsters are filling the airways and column inches with their take on who will be the ...
April 28, 2022
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
O'SHEA: Global Warming and the Midterm Elections
By far the biggest difference between the two main political parties in America resides in their differing approaches to the threat of global warmi...
April 27, 2022
by By Gerry O'Shea
Opinion
EDITORIAL: A Longer Term View
In a few days voters in Northern Ireland will go to the polls and elect a new Assembly. That Assembly will, in turn, pave the way for a new Executi...
April 27, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Adams: Songs and Craic Around Kesh Campfire
My recent tales of singsongs in the H Blocks have triggered more reminiscences of other such events. Two in particular stand out. Both were after L...
April 21, 2022
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
KIRWAN: An Inevitable Leaving of the Slaney's Banks
It was a strange town but everywhere in Ireland was a bit strange in those days. I’m talking about the 1960s and 70s when I knew Wexford best. Then...
April 20, 2022
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
EDITORIAL: The New Medieval
Many have voiced the same expression of disbelief. How can this be happening in 2022, in the 21st Century? We humans like to take comfort in the fa...
April 20, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
O'SHEA: The Challenges Facing the Catholic Church
For the first time in history the number of people in the United States who identify as belonging to a church, mosque or synagogue is less than tho...
April 14, 2022
by By Gerry O'Shea
Opinion
ADAMS: Marking the Rising and the Proclamation
On Easter Sunday Irish republicans across Ireland and globally will commemorate and celebrate the men and women who rose up against the British Emp...
April 14, 2022
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
EDITORIAL: A Study in Contrast
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week thanked Ireland for its support in an address to the joint houses of the Oireachtas. "From the ve...
April 13, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
KIRWAN: The Siren Song of Punk is Back
“All I got is three chords and the truth,” Bono famously sang. The rest of us settled for the bare three chords. The truth was a bit cumbersome to ...
April 07, 2022
by Larry Kirwan