Ireland might be on the other side of Europe from war ravaged Ukraine. But distance doesn't mean remoteness. Like it or not the war is looming larg...

Ireland 26; Scotland 5 Ireland celebrated a rare enough Triple Crown moment but it was a pyrrhic victory for Andy Farrell’s squad as France beat En...

A month into Russia's war against Ukraine we are witnessing an unfolding catastrophe that is steadily becoming more global in its reach. Ukraine is...

If ever there was a moment in time that we needed the spirit of St. Patrick's to be abroad in the world it is now. The events of recent weeks in Uk...

Pierce Turner, the Wexford singer-songwriter long resident in Manhattan, has been getting a lot of attention back in Ireland, where he spends part ...

How many times have we said it? "Never Again." It applies to so many of humanity's darker chapters that it's getting hard to count. Just to name a ...

Take a look at the map of Europe. At one end of it we have Ukraine as a dominant expanse on the map. At this juncture it is possible to argue that ...

TAKEN FROM THE IRISH ECHO ARCHIVES: APRIL 2012 On a sharp-edged December day, with snow on the hills circling Belfast, I stood close to the edge of...

What if Ireland was put in charge of the United Nations, the entire world, for let's say, a month? It's fair to say that the world at the end of th...

France 30; Ireland 24 Head Coach Andy Farrell has Ireland on a different trajectory to any of his predecessors in that the evolution of the team is...

We’re a month out from St. Patrick’s Day and hopes are rising that this year we can actually celebrate the day in a manner that brings us back to t...

The Democratic Unionist Party could never be accused of an over-abundance of political and social imagination. Right from its birth in 1971 it has ...