Opinion

Odd as it may seem, this presidential election is being fought between the normal and the weird, the logical and the fantastical, and the old and n...

IRISH Unity is the big idea that will positively transform society on this island. Its popularity is growing and the economic, political and social...

The polls suggest that there is at least a 50–50 chance that the electorate will choose a woman for the first time as president on November 5th. Th...

In Birmingham, Alabama last week for the inaugural Irish Roundtable in the Magic City hosted by Aisling Events, I thought back 16 years to the init...

It was, to say the least, a jarring contrast. Taoiseach Simon Harris was in Washington last week to celebrate a hundred years of diplomatic relatio...

“There are more things in heaven and on earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio.” Shakespeare’s Hamlet uttered these dramatic words cr...

The Irish Echo was born in Manhattan, Harlem to be precise. In all our 96 years and counting we have been based on the island that has given so muc...

THE weekend Sinn Féin Ard Fheis was full of enthusiasm and passion with great speeches covering every issue imaginable and the delegates voting thr...

I grew up on the banks of the Slaney River, right where it flows into Wexford Harbor on its way to the Irish Sea. There was water everywhere, lappi...

More often than not we get a fair few days warning about tropical storms and hurricanes as they form off the west coast of Africa and move eastward...

THE battle to save the iconic 1916 Moore Street battlefield site has been ongoing for over 20 years. During that time there has been a series of pl...

I spoke this week to a friend in my hometown, Kenmare, in County Kerry, about a recently ordained priest assigned to the local parish. Today, this ...