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
Community Features & Events
Belfast's twin top restaurants cooking up a storm for annual Homecoming
Visitors to this week's Belfast International Homecoming are being invited to savour the city at two iconic restaurants led by acclaimed chef Niall...
September 23, 2025
by Anthony Neeson
Community Features & Events
Big fáilte for writing on the wall at Princeton
As interest in the Irish language continues to enjoy a resurgence across the U.S., it's not unusual to see signs or words in Irish at Irish pubs, i...
September 22, 2025
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
Community Features & Events
THE IRELAND PODCAST: Wayne McCullough – World Boxing Champion
Wayne McCullough, Ireland's first and only Irish male boxer in history to ever win a WBC world title, chats with Fender Jackson from his base in La...
September 16, 2025
by Fender Jackson
Community Features & Events
Kevin Ryan is Lighting Up Illinois Politics
Prometheus stole fire from Zeus and gave it to humanity, who in turn transformed fire into a force for good and not evil. Zeus is the Democratic Pa...
September 01, 2025
by Mike Houlihan
News
Irish Echo sets out its fall advertising stall
With fall officially upon us and summer in the rearview mirror, now's the time to take up the Irish Echo's compelling fall offer for small business...
September 01, 2025
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
Community Features & Events
Around the Fastnet Rock and Safely Back Again
Even from a distance of some miles the Fastnet Rock looks stark, haunting. As you get closer it projects a power and strength that can resist an oc...
August 27, 2025
by Ray O'Hanlon
Teamsters' leader to address Echo Labor Awards
Teamsters General President Sean O'Brien will address the Irish Echo Labor Leaders' Awards in New York on 12 September - his first major engagement...
August 24, 2025
by Anthony Neeson
Community Features & Events
Ray Flynn’s Battle for Boston
Written by Boston community activist and academic Don Gillis, who played key roles both in Ray Flynn’s 1983 remarkable underdog election to the off...
July 31, 2025
by Dr. Francis Costello
Chicago Calling: Tom Herion Has His Plate Full And Then Some
Jimmy Cagney would play Tom Herion in the old days. He’s Chief of the Lyons, Illinois Police Department, founder, big cheese behind The Chicago Gar...
July 24, 2025
by Mike Houlihan
In Lavery’s Tangier footsteps
Older Irish people know of the painter Sir John Lavery because one of his many portraits of his wife Hazel was used to grace the Irish pound note f...
July 14, 2025
by By Geoffrey Cobb
Community Features & Events
A Heart Thumping Tale from Sally Quinn
I have long been aware of Sally Quinn. And that’s not just because she was married to the legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee. Quinn has c...
July 03, 2025
by Ray O'Hanlon
Teamsters' leader to address Echo Labor Awards
Chicago Calling: Tom Herion Has His Plate Full And Then Some
In Lavery’s Tangier footsteps
