Opinion
Life before style
"There are always young people coming and going from Ireland. Some of them are emigrants in the traditional sense, but simply there are people who ...
January 25, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
BC case a show, or just foolishness?
[caption id="attachment_69218" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="The late Brendan Hughes."][/caption] Somewhere over the Atlantic ocean righ...
January 18, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Harking back to a leaner, and meaner, America
[caption id="attachment_69215" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Grover Norquist."][/caption] Talk about timing. I've been reading a classic...
January 18, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Grand openings
A glance back at last week's Echo front page brings encouragement. In a time of closures, retractions, downsizing and outsourcing, and all the down...
January 18, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Even today, informers cast a long shadow
[caption id="attachment_69067" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="A poster for John Ford's "The Informer."][/caption] The word "informer" has...
January 11, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
New year brings doubts over fragile peace
[caption id="attachment_69061" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="David Cameron. "][/caption] In April 1998 the latest phase of the Anglo-Iri...
January 11, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
A political year
With the Republican primaries in full swing we hardly need reminding that this is a general and presidential election year. As has been the case in...
January 11, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
When eye contact trumped email
Twenty years ago this month, a charismatic politician from Arkansas was making his way ever so slowly through a high school gym in Nashua, New Hamp...
January 04, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
A visa year?
As always, at the outset of a new year, we raise our hopes as well as our glasses. The new year brings the opportunity for a fresh start in many th...
January 04, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Twas Christmas Eve and prisoners were stirring
[caption id="attachment_68864" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="The entrance to one of the Long Kesh compounds, known as "cages" to the rel...
December 28, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Year ends with questions on Irish sovereignty
[caption id="attachment_68854" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Enda Kenny."][/caption] On December 6, 1921 the Anglo-Irish Treaty was sign...
December 28, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Basis for hope
Immigration reform has been on the minds of Irish America for many years and the result has been mostly a sense of frustration that becomes especia...
December 28, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff