Opinion
EDITORIAL: Spirit of St. Patrick Battling Global Headwinds
St. Patrick's Day 2024 was an opportunity for Ireland to speak for itself and proclaim the nation's nobler virtues around the world. It's a world t...
March 20, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
O'SHEA: Ireland in the 1980s and Today
Eamon Ryan, the impressive Irish Minister for the Environment, recently bemoaned some of the political and social media commentary about the countr...
March 14, 2024
by By Gerry O'Shea
Opinion
EDITORIAL: The Right Call
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...
March 13, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
KIRWAN: Raging to Write 'All The Rage'
One of the joys – and occasional banes – of writing a regular column is that it engages you with your readers. A recent column beginning with Frank...
March 07, 2024
by Larry Kirwan
EDITORIAL: A Priceless Heritage
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...
March 06, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
OPINION: Today's Cooper Union Summit is Direction Sign on Road to Unity
Today, Friday, the first of March, portends to be a watershed moment in the focus of Irish-America on the issue of Irish national reunification. Sp...
March 01, 2024
by Brian McCabe
Opinion
O'SHEA: The Harsh Reality of Inequality in America
The United States can be proud of its record in promoting political rights - free speech and adherence to the rule of law, which mandates treating ...
February 29, 2024
by By Gerry O'Shea
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Dreams Now Taking Form
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...
February 28, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
OPINION: Now is the Time to Push for Irish Unity
We live in a time of a shifting world order, which inevitably comes with transitional instability. The unity movement and Irish America more broadl...
February 26, 2024
by Dylan Egan
Opinion
KIRWAN: Spanning Divides and Widening Gulfs
Michelle O’Neill’s elevation to become Northern Ireland’s First Minister was a momentous event, full of hope and possibility. Even in the glory day...
February 22, 2024
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Staunch Friends And Wavering Friends
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...
February 21, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
GERRY ADAMS: Search for Disappeared deserves support of all
IN the 1970s the IRA shot dead and secretly buried a number of people. This is a terrible legacy of that period of our history. The families of tho...
February 16, 2024
by Gerry Adams