Opinion

By Matthew Hennessey With the 10th anniversary of 9/11 rapidly approaching, the World Trade Center site will soon be opening to the public as a mem...

After a week in which people living along the U.S. eastern seaboard experienced both an earthquake and a hurricane it was tempting for some to star...

In responding to the Irish Echo editorial, " The Last Horseman" on the death of former New York governor Hugh Carey I have to bear in mind the maxi...

Reading President Richard M. Nixon's White House papers and studying his political career, was not something I thought I would be doing on August 1...

And so, the last of the Four Horsemen is gone. A generation ago, Hugh Leo Carey was one of four prominent Irish-American politicians who took up th...

At the time of writing, it would appear certain that Libya's dictator, Colonel Muammar Qadaffi, a man with as many political lives as there are see...

The reports of the shoddy news reporting by Rupert Murdoch-run newspapers in England and Ireland and the regular violation of laws by reporters, is...

Despite all the recent shenanigans and ballyhoo in Congress over the debt ceiling and spending cuts, and though it be deepest August, the U.S. is p...

President Obama felt it necessary to remind the world that the United States is still a nation with a triple A rating. Lucky he wasn't thinking in ...

We mourn the loss of Governor Hugh L. Carey, a great Irish American, humanitarian, statesman and benefactor of America and Ireland. Our paths cross...

If somebody told you that Ireland was the most anti-Catholic country in the western world, you probablywould rush to get your hearing checked, righ...

And so, the last of the horsemen has cantered over the horizon. Hugh Carey, former governor of New York, and a member of a group of politicians who...