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...

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...

Even during the worst days of the conflict in Northern Ireland people would dream of a peaceful and united future. However, if they voiced such a v...

Back at the beginning of February the European Union, all 27 member states, Ireland duly included, agreed on a fifty billion euro ($54 billion) eco...

On Tuesday morning, February 13, the Washington Post reported thus: "The Senate passed a $95 billion national security package to aid Israel, Ukrai...

Salon Diary / By Anthony Murphy Brendan Costello, President of Irish American Writers & Artists, hosted the first Salon of 2024 at the Ellington, c...

Northern Ireland has been waiting for this. Waiting not just for the two years since the last Assembly election, but waiting since its very foundat...

There's no doubt that what is going on in Gaza is horrific. There's no doubt that what triggered the Israeli invasion - that being the Hamas attack...

It was a verdict of sorts. One from on high. That at least was what many in Ireland, and in particular West Cork, were thinking after Ian Bailey, w...

"More than 1,000 journalists descend on Des Moines to cover the Iowa Caucuses." The headline from Editor & Publisher magazine tells us something; a...

Back in October, 2021 Belfast Victims Campaigner Raymond McCord wrote this in the Echo: "My name is Raymond McCord from North Belfast. On November ...

Well, that was 2023. Now for 2024. Of course we have been thinking about this particular year since, well, the particular year of 2020 brought with...