A Triple Whammy of Storms
18,000 homes and businesses in the Republic of Ireland and 10,000 in Northern Ireland were without power Monday after the third storm to hit the is...
February 22, 2022
by Anthony Neeson
Boston's Ed Flynn is a Man on a Mission
BOSTON --- Walking around South Boston can be dangerous these days, and residents are fed up with reckless drivers who have little regard for cross...
February 21, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
White Plains Parade Returns
After a two year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic the White Plains, New York St. Patrick's Day Parade is set to return on Saturday, March 12 wit...
February 21, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Storm Eunice Batters Ireland
Pic of Day: Steer clear! A car takes evasive actions as waves top the harbor wall in Howth, County Dublin. much of Ireland has been battered by Sto...
February 18, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
The Building, The Collection, The Very Essence
There's more than bricks, mortar and artifacts involved in the debate and discussions surrounding the Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University ...
February 18, 2022
by Ray O'Hanlon
Diamond: man of many enthusiasms
The metropolitan New York Irish and Irish-American communities recently lost another great sports personality and aficionado. Pat Diamond, a Derry ...
February 18, 2022
by Frank Brady
Breathless Reporting
Pic of Day: Waterford City native Kathleen MacDonald has amassed an impressive 10 Irish national records in just 18 months in freediving and she no...
February 17, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Collusion Webinar Takes Final Shape
An AOH webinar focusing on murder and collusion in South Belfast is set for this Saturday, February 19 with the list of participants now finalized....
February 17, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Supergroups set to go on tour
It’s almost that time of year again. St. Patrick’s Day celebrations have been on the back burner for almost two years now, but I’ve been hearing ab...
February 16, 2022
by Daniel Neely
Yonkers Parade Set To Return
There will be a Yonkers St. Patrick's Day Parade on McLean Avenue this year after a two year hiatus due to the pandemic. The honorees selected for ...
February 16, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Musicians in focus for CraicFest films
The CraicFest is known for its music and its films, but this year the latter are paying particular homage to the former. “This is unprecedented,” s...
February 15, 2022
by Peter McDermott
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60 years after civil rights struggle, do black lives really matter in Birmingham, Alabama?
As a white man entering a black church in America, it's hard not to cast the shadow of Dylann Roof, the crazed racist who joined a Bible Study clas...
February 15, 2022
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir