Opinion
EDITORIAL: St. Patrick's Spirit
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...
March 16, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Turner launch
Pierce Turner, the Wexford singer-songwriter long resident in Manhattan, has been getting a lot of attention back in Ireland, where he spends part ...
March 10, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Never Again Yet Again
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 ...
March 09, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Ireland and Ukraine
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 ...
March 02, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
News
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Titanic's fate made for a bigger Irish story
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...
February 25, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
EDITORIAL: What If.....?
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...
February 23, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Ireland show potential in Paris defeat
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...
February 16, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Return To March
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...
February 16, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Marching Boldly Backwards
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 ...
February 09, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
EDITORIAL: From Russia Without Love
Ireland and Russia are not on each other's buddy list of late. Fortunately for Russia, Ireland is not a military superpower. Fortunately for Irelan...
February 02, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
EDITORIAL: A Grubby Fingerprint
Back in the early years of the twentieth century the European military powers began to engage in a major arms race. That race would wind its way al...
January 19, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
EDITORIAL: The Fires of Winter
After a summer of fires consuming vast areas of wilderness and destroying entire communities we are now in the season of fires in close packed urba...
January 12, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff