Opinion

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,...

The Irish Times described it as a "bombshell announcement." It certainly seemed to come out of the blue, or at least the green hue surrounding all ...

Dear Editor, I write this letter to the Irish Echo because of a lack of courtesy by the NY Post to publish my response to their hatchet job of Atto...

The launch of the latest discussion paper from Ireland’s Future is a significant moment in the debate on constitutional change. "Ireland 2030" is a...

IT isn’t easy speaking in public and it can be very daunting when faced by a hostile audience who are not interested in what you have to say but si...

I first encountered Malachy McCourt at a sparsely attended Irish-Americans for McGovern meeting in the fall of 1972. He was accompanied by Brian He...

St. Patrick's Day 2024 was an opportunity for Ireland to speak for itself and proclaim the nation's nobler virtues around the world. It's a world t...

Eamon Ryan, the impressive Irish Minister for the Environment, recently bemoaned some of the political and social media commentary about the countr...

Despite calls from some quarters not to travel to Washington, D.C. for St. Patrick's Day celebrations Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is doing just that thi...

One of the joys – and occasional banes – of writing a regular column is that it engages you with your readers. A recent column beginning with Frank...

As American presidents go, Joe Biden, lately guilty on all counts of having reached the age of 81, is strongly and emotionally invested in his Iris...

Today, Friday, the first of March, portends to be a watershed moment in the focus of Irish-America on the issue of Irish national reunification. Sp...