Senator Ted Cruz may well have started a ball rolling. The Texas Republican recently urged the Texas state bar to carefully consider the fitness of...

Tánaiste Micheál Martin took renewed note of the undocumented Irish when he spoke at an Irish Consulate reception in New York last week during whic...

Saint Patrick had a tough time of it dealing with the pagan Irish of the fifth century. Indeed, early Christian saints generally had a difficult ta...

2023 St Patrick's Day Parade - county listings only, check out what time and street your county is stepping off at!

As is frequently the case with haggling over the future of Northern Ireland different parties can see starkly different things....in the same thing...

After lengthy and seemingly tortuous negotiations the EU and UK have come up with a means, they hope, of dealing with the impasse over the Northern...

There are moments in history when we are required to pause and assess. Typically such moments coincide with great and global events, or the anniver...

On any given day there are wars being waged around the world. On any given day nature can strike as if at war with humanity and our world. The reac...

A new Congress and an old issue: comprehensive immigration reform. Reform as an issue and question has been with us for decades now. The last time ...

There has been much hand-wringing in top German political circles over the matter of supplying Ukraine with German-made Leopard tanks. Suffice it t...

A few days before Christmas, the top tier membership of the Irish government drove to Áras an Uachtaráin, official residence of the Irish president...

The Irish Echo is ninety five years on the job this year. The precise birthday will be in October, 2023. But why wait? Charles F. Connolly launched...