Opinion

[caption id="attachment_69215" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Grover Norquist."][/caption] Talk about timing. I've been reading a classic...

A glance back at last week's Echo front page brings encouragement. In a time of closures, retractions, downsizing and outsourcing, and all the down...

[caption id="attachment_69067" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="A poster for John Ford's "The Informer."][/caption] The word "informer" has...

[caption id="attachment_69061" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="David Cameron. "][/caption] In April 1998 the latest phase of the Anglo-Iri...

With the Republican primaries in full swing we hardly need reminding that this is a general and presidential election year. As has been the case in...

Twenty years ago this month, a charismatic politician from Arkansas was making his way ever so slowly through a high school gym in Nashua, New Hamp...

As always, at the outset of a new year, we raise our hopes as well as our glasses. The new year brings the opportunity for a fresh start in many th...

[caption id="attachment_68864" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="The entrance to one of the Long Kesh compounds, known as "cages" to the rel...

[caption id="attachment_68854" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Enda Kenny."][/caption] On December 6, 1921 the Anglo-Irish Treaty was sign...

Immigration reform has been on the minds of Irish America for many years and the result has been mostly a sense of frustration that becomes especia...

Our first Christmas after we were married I was introduced to a Christmas fruitcake by my Irish-born wife. Thus began a 38-year tradition which eve...

Every nation has its habits, preferences, tastes. I'm pretty Catholic in my tastes having grown up in one country, Ireland, moved to another, Ameri...