Opinion
EDITORIAL: High Speeds Over Short Distances
All road trips are local. In the United States they can be short or long. In Ireland they can be short and long too, albeit in a relative sense whe...
August 07, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
GERRY ADAMS: Fresh chance to save 1916 Battlefield from developers
The campaign to save the 1916 Moore Street Battlefield site and those iconic buildings and streetscape that are forever linked to the most importan...
August 05, 2024
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Adrian Flannelly
Back in 2021 Adrian Flannelly was one of four U.S.-based recipients of the Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad. Flannelly...
July 31, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
KIRWAN: The Very Best of the Best
It’s a difficult time for musicians. And yet, the world is teeming with music. The problem is – so few are getting paid for their efforts. Suffice ...
July 25, 2024
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
EDITORIAL: An Irish Farewell
It was the kind of reluctant departure that Irish people are long familiar with. It was characterized by stubborn resistance, obvious pride, and no...
July 24, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
GERRY ADAMS: Dunnes Stores strikers are Irish heroes
FORTY years ago this month, ten workers from the Henry Street branch of Dunnes Stores in Dublin's city centre went on strike to protest against the...
July 21, 2024
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
KIRWAN: Time Catches Up With Us All
The jig is up, Joe. I don’t mean to be disrespectful, Mr. President, for the most part you’ve done a great job but time catches up with all of us a...
July 17, 2024
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
EDITORIAL: A Dark Day
The attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump was a dark day in American political life; not the first, and likely not the last. It ...
July 17, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Opinion: Irish networks, orgs caught in fallout from Fearless Fund lawsuit
The federal discrimination lawsuit against the Fearless Fund and Fearless Foundation currently stands to completely upend the ability for organizat...
July 16, 2024
by Terence Cullen, Senior VP, Actum LLC
Opinion
O'SHEA: 'Cafeteria Catholics' Have Their Say
Accusing someone of being a cafeteria Catholic implies that the person picks and chooses what he or she believes from the broad board of church tea...
July 11, 2024
by Gerry O'Shea
Opinion
EDITORIAL: A Return to Calmer Waters
Two European countries just voted. Nobody stormed anything and this includes France, home of the original storming. In the British general election...
July 10, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
KIRWAN: America's Soul is Out There...Somewhere
The great Chesterton remarked that “travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.” To which Mark Twain added, “travel is fatal to prejudice...
June 27, 2024
by Larry Kirwan