The Irish Echo team wishes all our readers, advertisers and friends a peaceful and prosperous New Year. Many challenges — and opportunities — lie a...

The bleak mid-winter was an unusual time for Taoiseach Simon Harris to unveil plans for a mammoth campaign in the US to win over and influence the ...

While defending the United Mine Workers in an arbitration dispute in 1903, Clarence Darrow, the renowned left-wing attorney, extolled unions as “th...

The Irish Echo team wishes all our readers, advertisers and friends a peaceful and prosperous New Year. Many challenges — and opportunities — lie a...

Photo of the Day: Birmingham Six member Paddy Hill points angrily to the Old Bailey in London in March, 1991 after being released. Along with fello...

October 3, 2025 will be a significant anniversary in the story of immigration in America. That date will mark the 60th anniversary of the signing i...

The bleak mid-winter was an unusual time for Taoiseach Simon Harris to unveil plans for a mammoth campaign in the US to win over and influence the ...

While defending the United Mine Workers in an arbitration dispute in 1903, Clarence Darrow, the renowned left-wing attorney, extolled unions as “th...

It was a little good news on the defense front. Tánaiste Micheál Martin welcomed the highest intake in the Irish Defence Forces in six years. As re...

I’ll start this end-of-year column by extending the warmest of congratulations to the great Ivan Goff, who performed with hit indie artist Hozier o...

I doubt that there is anyone alive who knows more about the history of the Irish in New York City than John Ridge. A soft-spoken man, Ridge is a fo...

Born in Buffalo New York, Pete Nolan hit Chicago at its cataclysmic peak. It was 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King had just been assassinated, then Bobb...

Since coming to America I have enjoyed Christmas in New York, particularly the days running up to the holiday. But Christmas, crazy busy that it is...

Santa has brought an early Christmas present to ten more young Irish ambassadors with the news that they have made the cut for the prestigious Iris...

Leinster 28; Munster 7 It was once a fixture which favored the host but long gone is the day since Munster have been Leinster’s equal in the the BK...

Leinster 20; Connacht 12 To Leinster the spoils but to Connacht the glory for making this such a Christmas spectacle - especially in the second hal...