Opinion
KIRWAN: An Inevitable Leaving of the Slaney's Banks
It was a strange town but everywhere in Ireland was a bit strange in those days. I’m talking about the 1960s and 70s when I knew Wexford best. Then...
April 20, 2022
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
EDITORIAL: The New Medieval
Many have voiced the same expression of disbelief. How can this be happening in 2022, in the 21st Century? We humans like to take comfort in the fa...
April 20, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
O'SHEA: The Challenges Facing the Catholic Church
For the first time in history the number of people in the United States who identify as belonging to a church, mosque or synagogue is less than tho...
April 14, 2022
by By Gerry O'Shea
Opinion
ADAMS: Marking the Rising and the Proclamation
On Easter Sunday Irish republicans across Ireland and globally will commemorate and celebrate the men and women who rose up against the British Emp...
April 14, 2022
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
EDITORIAL: A Study in Contrast
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week thanked Ireland for its support in an address to the joint houses of the Oireachtas. "From the ve...
April 13, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
KIRWAN: The Siren Song of Punk is Back
“All I got is three chords and the truth,” Bono famously sang. The rest of us settled for the bare three chords. The truth was a bit cumbersome to ...
April 07, 2022
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
ADAMS: Here's A Question for Jeffrey
The democratic question remains the key issue internationally. It has been so since people asserted their right to citizenship. At the heart of tha...
April 07, 2022
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Guest Of The Nation
The visage and voice of Yury Anatoliyevich Filatov are a familiar combination in Ireland of late. Filatov, of course, is Russia's ambassador to Dub...
April 06, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Remembering Moynihan in his Month of March
Daniel Patrick Moynihan was born in March and died in March, the month of Irish Heritage. Bill Cunningham, who served as the senator's chief of sta...
March 31, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
ADAMS: New Book Turns Spotlight on UDR
On 1 April 1970 the Ulster Defence Regiment formally took its place in the ranks of the British Army. The UDR was a locally recruited militia estab...
March 31, 2022
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
O'SHEA: Irish Language is Enjoying a Renaissance
I recall well a moving story that Maurice Brick, author and fluent Gaelic speaker, told me many years ago. He comes from the heart of the Ballyferr...
March 30, 2022
by By Gerry O'Shea
Opinion
EDITORIAL: The Debate Over 'Almost'
Ireland might be on the other side of Europe from war ravaged Ukraine. But distance doesn't mean remoteness. Like it or not the war is looming larg...
March 30, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff