News
Winds of change blow across Irish political landscape
Irish voters have an array of choices which they can avail of courtesy of the proportional representation voting system. By Irish Echo Staff Irelan...
February 07, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff
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Hear Me Now!
It’s never too early to get into politics. This young man was among those in Dublin protesting the housing crisis just a couple of days before Iris...
February 06, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff
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Irish still on their marks at Millrose Games
Ray Flynn with the 2019 NYRR Millrose Games Wanamaker Mile winner, Yomif Kejelcha of Ethiopia, and eight-time Wanamaker Mile champion Bernard Lagat...
February 06, 2020
by Ray O'Hanlon
News
She’s Irish and she’s here
Emma De Souza and her husband Jake with Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney in a photo tweeted by Minister Coveney By Irish Echo Staff Derry woman...
February 05, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff
News
Presidential Forum tickets now available
Launching the Irish American Presidential Forum 2020 back in early December were co-chairs (l-r) Marty Glennon, John Dearie and Joe Crowley. Photo ...
February 04, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff
News
Voters urged to consider nature issues
A Curlew is an increasingly rare sight in Ireland By Ray O’Hanlon Critters don’t vote. But what if they did? Well, if the flora and fauna of Irelan...
February 03, 2020
by Ray O'Hanlon
News
Cold shoulders but McDonald makes big debate
Mary Lou McDonald. RollingNews.ie photo. By Anthony Neeson With just days remaining before Ireland goes to the polls, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael hav...
February 03, 2020
by Anthony Neeson
News
Happy St. Brigid’s Day
Tomorrow, Saturday, is St. Brigid’s Day, and also the first day of spring according to the ancient Celtic calendar. St. Brigid was born in what is ...
January 31, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff
News
The sun sets on UK’s EU membership
By Ray O’Hanlon The bagpipes have been heavily employed in Brussels last few days. They were played Wednesday as a somber and tearful group of Scot...
January 31, 2020
by Ray O'Hanlon
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Fianna Fáil, SF, are rising in the polls
Election posters along a Dublin street. RollingNews.ie photo By Anthony Neeson Two new opinion polls have confirmed the trend in previous polls las...
January 30, 2020
by Anthony Neeson
Culture
Echoes being heard from 1973, 1974
Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine pictured right in the early 1960s with his executive assistant and successor George Mitchell. Between the Lines / By...
January 29, 2020
by Peter McDermott
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Rockland Hibernians name St. Patrick’s honorees
Pictured (l-r): Parade honorees Fergal Hayes, Frank McDonagh, Sergeant Deirdre Smith-Withers, and Lillian Murphy. By Irish Echo Staff In a sign tha...
January 29, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff