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Tommy Fleming By Aine Ni Shionnaigh County Sligo is a place shrouded in the mists of time: a stunning landscape of rugged scenery, Neolithic monume...

Being behind bars is not where you usually want to be but when bars replace glass windows on some Indian trains the result passes for air condition...

Fans of the pipes and drums will be well entertained at Saturday’s ninth annual Hudson Valley Irish Fest By Irish Echo Staff According to the weath...

Congressman Richard Neal at the Washington, D.C. memorial service for Martin McGuinness in July. By Ray O’Hanlon President Trump’s committing to th...

President Trump By Ray O’Hanlon President trump will appoint an envoy to Northern Ireland despite the recent decision by Secretary of State Rex Til...

Mayor Marty Walsh By Irish Echo Staff A number of influential Irish American leaders have voiced support for Mayor Marty Walsh of Boston ahead of T...

J.P. Donleavy’s 82nd birthday party in Dublin By Terry Corrigan In the summer of 2000, I was in New York with a friend. The day before we were due ...

Congressman Richard Neal By Ray O’Hanlon 32 members of the U.S. House of Representatives – one for every Irish county – have signed on to a letter ...

Navy Cross winner Patrick “Bob” Gallagher. By Ray O’Hanlon The Ancient Order of Hibernians are this week lauding the move by Senator Charles Schume...

Hillary Clinton in her official State Department photo portrait. By Ray O’Hanlon Back in August, 2009 all was quiet at Stormont. Well, relatively q...

Arlene Foster By Anthony Neeson Sinn Féin have told Arlene Foster that she knows what needs to be done to restore the power-sharing executive at St...

Ibrahim Halawa By Evan Short Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has welcomed the decision by a court in Egypt to acquit Irishman Ibrahim Halawa. The 21-year-ol...