The Irish Echo was born in Manhattan, Harlem to be precise. In all our 96 years and counting we have been based on the island that has given so muc...

More often than not we get a fair few days warning about tropical storms and hurricanes as they form off the west coast of Africa and move eastward...

It's the week of the opening of the General Assembly in New York and midtown Manhattan is in its usual state of General Assembly chaos with street ...

Oh well, sometimes you have to take the lumps and the bruises. The Irish government is contemplating legal bumps and bruises after the Court of Jus...

About seven in 10 Americans say they approve of labor unions. This is just points away from the record-high approval rating for organized labor, ac...

JD Vance's recent statements that the Irish immigrants fleeing the Great Hunger were responsible for higher crime rates is in the centuries old tra...

Immigration might not be a third rail in American politics but it is for sure a hot potato. It will be interesting to see if Kamala Harris and Dona...

Ireland, the Republic part of it, is a busy place these times with people coming and people going. But more are coming in according to the latest n...

August 19 was World Humanitarian Day. Most people in the world didn't notice. Some who did might have wondered where the humanitarian bit actually ...

And so, another Olympics in the books. Paris, truly a city sans pareil, opened itself to the world and the world entered its gates. Over 10,000 ath...

All road trips are local. In the United States they can be short or long. In Ireland they can be short and long too, albeit in a relative sense whe...

Back in 2021 Adrian Flannelly was one of four U.S.-based recipients of the Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad. Flannelly...