Opinion

Margaret Thatcher grew up as the daughter of a greengrocer. And just as you can wander through a grocery and pick and choose the items that you lik...

Who would want to be responsible for steering the course of that leaking tub Europe right now? No country in its right mind, some would say. But th...

Funny, but we don't feel our age. The turning of the year has brought the Echo so something of a landmark. This is our 85th year of publication, th...

Milwaukee Irish Fest has announced its 2013 board of directors. Board members re-elected are: Kevin Costello (Milwaukee) and Cathy Baker Ward (Broo...

In its earliest manifestation, Thanksgiving was less of a celebration and more a literal reflection of the very word itself. Those who first gave t...

If all things go as planned, members of the Irish American community will descend on the stricken Rockaways this Saturday as part of the post-Sandy...

Editor: In April 2012 the DUP expressed anger at the prosecution of Gerry McGeough on alleged "historic" offenses dating back to 1975 and 1981 and ...

Irish Echo Editorial In a few days the result will be in after voters in all fifty states cast their ballots for the next president. At the time of...

Paul Ryan, the Republican nominee for vice-president, admires novelist Ayn Rand so much that he mandates all his employees and interns to read her ...

Farewell Neil Armstrong, you were the man for the task and the times. The passing of Armstrong last week, at age 82, was one of those events that m...

The Republicans are gathered in Tampa this week for their convention and we can expect all the usual razzamatazz and ballyhoo that goes with such g...

I know little about the Great Famine. Obviously I'm aware of how it drastically reduced the Irish population by killing one million people and forc...