Opinion

KIRWAN: All Swaggered and Everyone Was Cool

It was the best of times and the worst of times – the best because we were young, the worst because we didn’t know any better. That’s how we all en...

April 02, 2026 by Larry Kirwan

Opinion

LETTERS: Engaging with Irish America beyond the Beltway

I read with interest the Irish Echo's report on Mayor Mamdani's inspirational words on St. Patrick's Day (Mayor Mamdani Broadsides British, Salutes...

April 01, 2026 by Cathal Mallaghan MP

Opinion

EDITORIAL: Ireland Arming Up

It didn't enter the conversation over the shamrock in the Oval Office on Saint Patrick's Day but Ireland is heading down a path that will see the n...

April 01, 2026 by Leader Column

Bread and butter issues at center of NYU strike

As another Irish-American Heritage month nears completion, it’s a good time to remember Terry Golway’s comment that the “three pillars of Irish pow...

March 25, 2026 by Stephen Butler

Opinion

The Closing Door

A few days ago Saint Patrick's Day was celebrated from coast to coast. The day that's in it is a gift from Ireland, more specifically immigrants wh...

March 25, 2026 by Leader Column

Opinion

KIRWAN: Same Saint But Very Different Towns

When I was a boy in Ireland, Saint Patrick’s Day was one of the worst days of the year. The pubs were closed and you could almost touch the gloom o...

March 19, 2026 by Larry Kirwan

Opinion

Of War And War's Alarms

The line above is from "Politics" by William Butler Yeats. It's a short poem that sets the writer's priorities straight. Forget politics and forget...

March 18, 2026 by Leader Column

Opinion

Shamrock Summit

The first shamrock summit took place on a summit - literally. That would have been, as the story goes, the fifth century encounter between Saint Pa...

March 11, 2026 by Leader Column

Opinion

GERRY ADAMS: Andrew crisis puts focus on the failures of royalty

CURRENTLY, the British state is convulsed by allegations surrounding a member of its royal family. Norway too is in the midst of a crisis around it...

March 08, 2026 by Gerry Adams

Opinion

KIRWAN: Ah, Those Were The Days, Sort Of

I wrote my first column for the Irish Echo 18 years ago. It concerned Social Security, and how the program’s reserves would be unable to pay full b...

March 08, 2026 by Larry Kirwan

Opinion

LETTERS: Those Orange Rebels

Editor: This Kinawley Fenian — and great admirer of George Washington, God bless him, for having kicked King George III out of America 250 years ag...

March 04, 2026 by Fr. Sean McManus

Opinion

Short, Long, Endless?

When a democracy finds itself in a war it has to speak and explain to its own people. But what you say to your own people and what you say to your ...

March 04, 2026 by Leader Column

Opinion

GERRY ADAMS: A fitting tribute to Frank’s courage and commitment

LAST week marked 50 years since the death of Frank Stagg on hunger strike in Wakefield Prison in England. Events, including a black flag vigil and ...

February 25, 2026 by Gerry Adams

Opinion

Nothing Ventured....

The upcoming visit to the White House on St. Patrick's Day by Taoiseach Micheál Martin could end up being, well, take your pick. There has been con...

February 25, 2026 by Leader Column

Opinion

Rotten and Toxic

Further proof, if it was needed, but we have been reminded how rotten and toxic is the current regime in Moscow. Literally toxic in the case of the...

February 18, 2026 by Leader Column

Opinion

GERRY ADAMS: Starmer paying the price for his dangerous call

AS I write this column the future of Keir Starmer as British Prime Minister is a topic of conversation because of his mishandling of the Peter Mand...

February 16, 2026 by Gerry Adams