Fair wind behind inaugural Irish Maritime Awards
The Irish Echo is setting sail on a new journey with the first-ever Irish Maritime Awards earmarked for New York in May 2026. Guest speaker at the ...
December 20, 2025
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
Community Features & Events
Tim Bear Foundation launches annual beach wheelchair fundraiser
The annual Tim Bear Foundation Holiday Fundraiser and Raffle will take place in Bantry Bay, Greenpoint Avenue, Long Island City on Saturday 13 Dece...
November 23, 2025
by Anthony Neeson
Community Features & Events
Gleeson Portrays the Ups and Downs of Newspaper Editing
Irish actor Domhnall Gleeson has performed in many roles and his latest, to be seen on the NBC screening network Peacock, has him as a newspaper ed...
November 11, 2025
by By Darcie Zudell
Community Features & Events
CHICAGO CALLING: Boz O’Brien
Many years ago, (and by “many” I mean over thirty) I reached out to a publican for advice on my career. His name was Boz O’Brien and he was the own...
November 06, 2025
by Mike Houlihan
Culture
Boston scribe in Belfast, Dublin to tell Rest of the Story
Boston author and activist Michael Patrick MacDonald returned to Belfast last week for the latest chapter in his 'The Rest of the Story' initiative...
November 03, 2025
by Anthony Neeson
News
OPINION: Digital Irish Tech Week is putting Ireland, North and South, on the map
Coming off the back of the September Homecoming events in Belfast — where the city has moved from a place of promise to a city of delivery — last w...
October 30, 2025
by Mike Flannery
Community Features & Events
Commodore John Barry’s Bronzed Encore
Boston --- You could say that Commodore John Barry, Irish-born hero of the American Revolution, has been AWOL in Boston for nearly half a century. ...
October 13, 2025
by By Michael Quinlin
Community Features & Events
Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder named Emeralds' 2026 Irishman of the Year
The Grand Council of United Emerald Societies (GCUES) has named Patrick J. Ryder, Police Commissioner of the Nassau County Police Department, as it...
October 10, 2025
by Anthony Neeson
Community Features & Events
CHICAGO CALLING: Peggy O’Flaherty
Tech entrepreneur Peggy O’Flaherty launched her first business venture when she was a little girl in second grade. Peggy was the youngest of ten ki...
October 08, 2025
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Exploring Ireland - A Short Flight to Long Ago
It was the first time I can recall that myself and my wife were called to board the plane by our first names. But this wasn’t some big airline in a...
October 06, 2025
by Ray O'Hanlon
Business
Homecoming reflections - Belfast has moved from a place of promise to a city of delivery
I’ve just returned from the Belfast International Homecoming, and if there’s one thing that struck me, it’s this: the city is no longer just a plac...
September 30, 2025
by Mike Flannery
Community Features & Events
WATCH: 60 years on, Belfast Homecoming reunites music legends Des & Keith
They are Ireland's two greatest saxophonists — both tracing their fame right back to the showband era of the 1960s — but when they met up at the Be...
September 27, 2025
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
Fair wind behind inaugural Irish Maritime Awards
