Opinion
Editorial Aug 1-7 2018: Bloviating Pols, Farting Cows
In the larger sense there are three ways that we deal with danger. We might whistle past the graveyard pretending that there is nothing that we sho...
September 12, 2018
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Guilfoyle, O’Leary’s CD is sure to delight
If it’s late August it means the Fleadh is over and congratulations are in order! Earlier in the month, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann branches from t...
August 21, 2015
by Daniel Neely
Opinion
Margaret Thatcher
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...
April 12, 2013
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
A tricky task
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...
January 11, 2013
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Marking 85
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...
January 11, 2013
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
New on board
Milwaukee Irish Fest has announced its 2013 board of directors. Board members re-elected are: Kevin Costello (Milwaukee) and Cathy Baker Ward (Broo...
January 11, 2013
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
And Thanksgiving
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...
November 21, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Irish hands on
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...
November 21, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Better use
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 ...
November 21, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
A second term
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...
October 31, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Ryan and Ayn
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 ...
August 31, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
One giant legacy
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...
August 31, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff