Opinion
A funny thing happened in South Carolina
[caption id="attachment_69641" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Newt Gingrich."][/caption] As luck would have it, I was in Greenville for m...
February 08, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Time to restore "The Quiet Man" cottage
[caption id="attachment_69637" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption=""White O'Morn" as it once was. "][/caption] In 1951 the Hollywood crew for ...
February 08, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Irish sovereignty: if not alarmed, pay attention
[caption id="attachment_69634" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Davos."][/caption] A gigantic political-economic crisis is gripping Europe....
February 08, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Picking a GOP winner from the 2012 bunch
[caption id="attachment_69630" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Mitt Romney."][/caption] Four years ago I wrote a couple of columns analyzi...
February 08, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
American solace
The one thing that Irish government can always rely upon, in good times and not so good, is a welcome mat in America. So Taoiseach Enda Kenny and T...
February 08, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Coughlin's Irish grit
Tom Coughlin, who might have been out of a job this week, is instead standing tall as a football coach for the ages. The 65-year-old New York Giant...
February 08, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
40 years on, Bloody Sunday's untold story
[caption id="attachment_69531" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Lord Hailsham was furious over Irish American interest."][/caption] This pa...
February 01, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Hoboken parade was insult to Irish culture
[caption id="attachment_69511" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Mayor Zimmer."][/caption] As you already know, the city of Hoboken, known b...
February 01, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
An electoral distortion?
The argument over piles of so-called "SuperPac" money being injected into the electoral process continues despite that U.S. Supreme Court "Citizens...
February 01, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Oval Irish
In the not too distant future, spring will return to the American northeast and with it a new Baseball season. Gaelic football will also return for...
February 01, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
No Oscars for Margaret Thatcher's Irish legacy
[caption id="attachment_69393" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Thatcher at the 1990 European summit in Dublin."][/caption] THE recent publ...
January 25, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Life before style
"There are always young people coming and going from Ireland. Some of them are emigrants in the traditional sense, but simply there are people who ...
January 25, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff