Opinion

WELL done to all of those who planned, organised, participated in, or generally contributed to this year's hugely successful Féile an Phobail. It w...

Matt Morrison's American life was always precarious - this despite an American family and a longtime home in Missouri. In recent times Matt Morriso...

THE northern statelet was built for unionism. It was constructed and then managed in a way to ensure that nationalists would never have a say in ru...

Almost 18 years ago I wrote my first column for The Irish Echo. It concerned an official projection that in order to stay solvent Social Security b...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin was holding low value cards and trying to imagine a flush as he spoke to reporters last week about the trade deal reached ...

IT was Charles Stewart Parnell who said: “No man has the right to say to his country, ‘Thus far shalt thou go and no further.’” This was in the 19t...

Editor: I write this on the 4th of July, a day marked for celebrating the success of what was viewed at the time as an American experiment. People ...

President Donald Trump and President Michael D. Higgins do have a few things in common, despite outwardly very different images and appearances. Th...

20 YEARS ago on Monday one of the most historic and transformative events in the Irish peace process took place. On July 28, 2005, the IRA issued a...

With its working class roots and boozy background, rock ‘n’ roll often teeters on the edge of chaos and violence. Rock music, on the other hand - u...

Editor: I write in response to the Irish Echo Opinion piece on Ireland's neutrality. Ireland's neutrality has been a cornerstone of its foreign pol...

Perhaps, in a throwback sort of way, it was appropriate. At the top of the letter ordering him to leave the United States Gabriel Megahy was not ad...