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[caption id="attachment_69531" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Lord Hailsham was furious over Irish American interest."][/caption] This pa...

[caption id="attachment_69511" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Mayor Zimmer."][/caption] As you already know, the city of Hoboken, known b...

The argument over piles of so-called "SuperPac" money being injected into the electoral process continues despite that U.S. Supreme Court "Citizens...

In the not too distant future, spring will return to the American northeast and with it a new Baseball season. Gaelic football will also return for...

[caption id="attachment_69393" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Thatcher at the 1990 European summit in Dublin."][/caption] THE recent publ...

"There are always young people coming and going from Ireland. Some of them are emigrants in the traditional sense, but simply there are people who ...

[caption id="attachment_69218" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="The late Brendan Hughes."][/caption] Somewhere over the Atlantic ocean righ...

[caption id="attachment_69215" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Grover Norquist."][/caption] Talk about timing. I've been reading a classic...

A glance back at last week's Echo front page brings encouragement. In a time of closures, retractions, downsizing and outsourcing, and all the down...

[caption id="attachment_69067" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="A poster for John Ford's "The Informer."][/caption] The word "informer" has...

[caption id="attachment_69061" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="David Cameron. "][/caption] In April 1998 the latest phase of the Anglo-Iri...

With the Republican primaries in full swing we hardly need reminding that this is a general and presidential election year. As has been the case in...