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An early morning golfer tees off at Tullamore Golf Club, Co. Offaly, which has reopened to the public. INPHO/JAMES CROMBIE

Old Ireland In Colour brings a vivid new look to long ago photos By Ray O'Hanlon Is there a reason why a national memorial to the dead and maimed o...

Apollo 11 Command Module pilot Michael Collins has died aged 90. Collins orbited the moon in July 1969 as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended ...

Professor Christine Kinealy By Irish Echo Staff The "Great Famine Voices Roadshow" is returning this weekend with what producers describe as "a bra...

North First Minister and Democratic Unionist Party leader Arlene Foster is to step down from both positions. Foster, who recently said that she wou...

President Biden has ambassadorial choices to make By Ray O'Hanlon The U.S. Embassy in Dublin and the Ambassador's Residence in the Phoenix Park are...

Some significant Covid-19 restrictions are being eased in Ireland as of this week and a resumption of tennis is one of activities being welcomed ba...

Claire Culleton By Ray O'Hanlon The Irish literature community in the United States suffered a significant loss with the recent death of Claire Cul...

"Unintended Consequences" brings an Irish and Irish American perspective to the always contentious issue of immigration By Ray O'Hanlon Today is th...

The "Liffey Sweeper" has a simple but very important job and that is to gather up plastic and other garbage in Dublin's River Liffey. RollingNews.i...

"Rockaway Blue" is a defiant and celebratory tour of Irish-American life By Jim Mulvaney Larry Kirwan’s sweeping novel, "Rockaway Blue," is a defia...

Pictured is the “House of the Dead,” the setting for the short story "The Dead" by James Joyce. The house, at 15 Usher’s Island has been approved b...