This year the Echo will mark 20 years since the debut of the author questionnaire Page Turner. We note here the writers and books featured in 2024 ...

We Irish love sport and our sporting heroes. Every year we welcome new national stars, but every four years we have a chance to watch some of our h...

Pic of Day: Participants in the annual New Year's swim in Castletownshend, County Cork enjoying relatively benign conditions, though colder weather...

Pic of Day: Participants in the annual New Year's swim in Castletownshend, County Cork enjoying relatively benign conditions, though colder weather...

Siobhan Dennehy, a tireless and outstanding frontline advocate for Irish immigrants in the United States, and a champion for quality of life for th...

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...

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...

This year the Echo will mark 20 years since the debut of the author questionnaire Page Turner. We note here the writers and books featured in 2024 ...

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...

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...

We Irish love sport and our sporting heroes. Every year we welcome new national stars, but every four years we have a chance to watch some of our h...

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...