As we all know, 2026 is the year of the semiquincentennial of the United States. Two-hundred and fifty years is a pretty sound achievement, but the...

John J. Sweeney, a son of immigrants from County Leitrim, started in the Bronx and rose to the heights of the AFL-CIO presidency, was honored Monda...

Pic of Day: It's looking like that kind of summer when the sunflowers grow so high. Strollers in the Botanic Garden in Dublin are here enjoying the...

Pic of Day: It's looking like that kind of summer when the sunflowers grow so high. Strollers in the Botanic Garden in Dublin are here enjoying the...

The Project Children documentary "How To Defuse A Bomb: The Project Children Story" is lined up for screenings in the coming days in both Boston an...

New Jersey attorney Mike Breen will swap the courtroom for the triathlon course on Saturday to raise funds for charity Mary's Gift which supports I...

Editor: A new film made for Galway based TG4 is about a young football team in North Belfast at the start of the Troubles has been selected to be s...

Towns change. We leave them one way, and find them so different when we return. Wexford is a case in point. So many people now live on its outskirt...

Well, what to make of this World Cup. No Irish representation unless you count Cape Verde's Pico Lopes. And sure why not. Lopes and his extraordina...

As we all know, 2026 is the year of the semiquincentennial of the United States. Two-hundred and fifty years is a pretty sound achievement, but the...

It is not surprising when a man born of Irish parents in England becomes a folk musician, but it is when he becomes a revered Greek traditional mus...

Stories matter. For Irish Americans, they are a way to celebrate identity and ensure that we and the next generation know who we are and where we c...

A stellar line-up of labor leaders is to be honored at 16th annual Irish Echo Labor Awards in New York on 18 September. Hailing from across the nat...

Let’s get this straight. Cook County Circuit Court Judge William “Bill” Gamboney is ¾ Irish. “My mother was a Fallon.” Bill is also one of the most...

John J. Sweeney, a son of immigrants from County Leitrim, started in the Bronx and rose to the heights of the AFL-CIO presidency, was honored Monda...

Louth 0-15 Mayo 3-23 Mayo’s Awake! At Croke Park at the weekend, they stormed into another Croke Park final, making Louth’s first trip to a semifin...