Opinion
Behind Titanic tragedy, another dark story
[caption id="attachment_71260" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="The Titanic under construction at Harland and Wolff. "][/caption] The story...
April 25, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
School reform is more than a slogan in Ireland
[caption id="attachment_71257" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Ruairi Quinn."][/caption] School reform is one of the most-contentious issu...
April 25, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Arsenic and austerity
The problem with a government trying to impose economic and/or social policy, at least in a democracy, is not infrequently politics cutting across ...
April 25, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Silence and indifference threaten future peace
[caption id="attachment_71251" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Jack Lynch."][/caption] The approach of St Patrick's Day was, in my time as...
April 25, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Farewell to the last of the Irish Rovers
[caption id="attachment_71123" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Ciaran Bourke "][/caption] There are very few surprises left for me in the ...
April 18, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
What gives first?
There is discord in the Irish Catholic Church, tension between priests who live beside and converse with their parishioners and church leaders who ...
April 18, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Political progress, yet a social and economic malaise
[caption id="attachment_70834" align="alignright" width="600" caption="Mary Robinson. "][/caption] 2011 resonated with voices demanding open and ac...
April 11, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Irish law firm, MOP, marks 15 years in U.S.
[caption id="attachment_70829" align="alignright" width="600" caption="Liam Quirke, Council Member Elizabeth Crowley and Minister Joan Burton at th...
April 11, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Downturn claims another victim
Ireland's economic crisis has claimed another high-profile victim with the loss of one of the country's oldest electronics businesses. Peat's World...
April 11, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Tiger, Bertie and the second chance
[caption id="attachment_70823" align="alignright" width="600" caption="Tiger Woods."][/caption] Politics and sports have a good deal in common, whi...
April 11, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
In all our hands
[caption id="attachment_70820" align="alignright" width="600" caption="Rory Staunton."][/caption] It's a line long used by newspaper reporters: "th...
April 11, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
The continued imprisonment of Marian Price
[caption id="attachment_70707" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Marian Price. "][/caption] Marian Price is the only woman political prisone...
April 04, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff