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Ireland, led by Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason, has been to the fore on the United Nations Security Council as it attempts to secure a ceasefire ...

Congressman Bill Keating By Ray O'Hanlon The Biden administration is being urged to appoint a U.S. Envoy to the North peace and political process b...

A lack of housing construction in Ireland, Covid-19 being part of the reason, is leading to fast rising housing prices. There is also considerable ...

Frederick Douglass in the 1840s By Irish Echo Staff A free public event organized by the Consulate General of Ireland New York and the African Amer...

Seamus Deane By Irish Echo Staff The death has taken place of Irish poet, novelist, literary critic and university lecturer Seamus Deane. The Derry...

A May morning sunrise over Howth Head and Dublin Bay. At this time of the fifth month of the year the sun rises in Dublin shortly before 5.30 a.m. ...

Celebrations in Ballymurphy after the coroner's verdict totally exonerated the victims of the 1971 Ballymurphy Massacre By Irish Echo Staff The Anc...

White doves of peace were released over Ballymurphy in Belfast after Tuesday's Ballymurphy Massacre inquest verdict.

There was relief, joy and and feelings of utter vindication on the streets of Ballymurphy Tuesday evening By Anthony Neeson It has taken half a cen...

Members of the Ballymurphy Massacre campaign holding photos of their lost loved ones outside the Coroner's Court in Belfast today.

Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney (left) meeting with British Northern Ireland Secretary of State Brandon Lewis in Dublin last week. Pho...

This mother swan has her wings full with seven cygnets who are checking out their newly attained world, that being a lake in County Kildare. Rollin...