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Est. 1928 • May 7-13, 2008
• Vol 81 No. 19 • The USA's most widely read Irish American Newspaper
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Irish Echo Digital Edition
Click below to read the full version of this week's issue online . . .
The Irish Echo Index Top 30
Click below for special supplement saluting U.S.
and Irish companies building peace and prosperity in the New Northern Ireland. 
Forty Under Forty Special Supplement
Click below to find out who made the list:
2008 List of Top 40 Under 40 years of age. 
Check Out Belfast Pulse
Click below for your guide to what's on . . .
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  Check back for another exciting giveaway contest!
 
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 Back on track 
May 7, 2008
The undocumented are back in the political frame.
After weeks of tension between the Irish government and supporters of the undocumented Irish in America, outgoing taoiseach Bertie Ahern pleaded on their behalf during his speech to the joint houses of Congress last week.
 Bertie Ahern basks in his bright American moment
May 7, 2008
Washington, D.C. --- "After so many decades of conflict, I am so proud, Madam Speaker, to be the first Irish leader to inform the United States Congress: Ireland is at peace."
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 Index sets Belfast's stage
May 7, 2008
This week's ground breaking investment conference in Belfast had its New York send off last week in the form of the Irish Echo Index Top 30, which was unveiled last Thursday at a luncheon in lower Manhattan.
Leinster hope Celtic can be stepping stone to cup glory - Sports
May 7, 2008
THE Leinster players won't achieve any rugby immortality for winning the Celtic League, a competition confined to teams from Ireland, Wales and Scotland, but coming towards the end of a long season, any sort of silverware raises the spirits.
Links across Irish America - Editorial
The Irish Echo is offering a unique opportunity to Irish cultural and civic organizations across the United States: a chance to highlight your group's web site by exchanging links with the Irish Echo, the nation's most popular Irish American publication.
New York is committed to Ireland's future - Editorial
I knew that April 11th was a historic day for my office as I stood with two members of the Northern Ireland government, First Minister, the Right Honorable Reverend Doctor Ian Paisley, and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.
Bertie's welcome words - Editorial
Bertie Ahern bid farewell to America last week in the capacity that has become so familiar to us all this past eleven years.
And he said farewell in style. A fine speech to the House and Senate, stories and fond reminiscences at gatherings in Washington and Boston, moments when the man trumped protocol, all combined to leave Irish America with a warm sense of Bertie Ahern, taoiseach.
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