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The Celtic Tiger economy has turned into an economic junkyard, at least in the view of one of the three main ratings agencies. Moody's, the rating ...

Between the Lines / Peter McDermott If there were to be a designated "greatest living writer in the English language" then many readers and indeed ...

By John Manley The U.S. Open trophy once again will cross the Atlantic to take up a year’s residence in Northern Ireland, only in different hands. ...

The growing economic, political and cultural ties between New York City and Belfast were highlighted this week in the second annual New York New Be...

Former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald, whose state funeral took place on Sunday, was interviewed by the Echo in 2006 about his father and mother's par...

By Peter McDermott It's hard to resist a good ghost story. Galway artist Louise Manifold certainly found that the people of Askeaton, Co. Limerick,...

By Susan Falvella Garraty [caption id="attachment_64674" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley with Presid...

By Susan Falvella Garraty There's been a huge about face on Capitol Hill this week. The chairman of the Friends of Ireland caucus, Congressman Pete...

The pubs and restaurants on Stone Street in Lower Manhattan are this Saturday, May 14, teaming up in their annual street party to raise funds for t...

By Scott Jamison In what appears to have been a hoax, residents of the town of Howth, County Dublin, were bewildered this past weekend to see dead ...

By Ray O'Hanlon Brian Conlon's story is a business version of Jack and the Beanstalk. From an initial seed capital investment of £5000, Conlon has ...

Sean Quinn, once Ireland's richest man, will no longer have any role in the Quinn Group which he created and made his fortune from, the Irish Indep...