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Incoming parade board chairman, Sean Lane By Irish Echo Staff The board of the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade has announced six winners of ...

Pope Francis By Irish Echo Staff Pope Francis will meet with victims of clerical sex abuse during his visit to Ireland in August. Speaking at Mayno...

Bill Burke was Grand Marshal of the New York St. Patrick’s Day Parade in 1988. Irish Echo archives photo. By Ray O’Hanlon One of the New York Irish...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. By Ray O’Hanlon Sure, there’s North Korea. But Northern Ireland is also on Washington’s foreign policy to-do l...

Congressman Joe Crowley By Congressman Joe Crowley As the son and grandson of Irish immigrants growing up in Woodside, Queens, my heritage is a big...

Gerald A. Hanweck Jr., the CEO and founder of Hanweck, will speak tomorrow morning at the New York New Belfast conference at Pier A, Harbor House, ...

The story of a life lost on D-Day, and a rifle found a few days after the Normandy invasion, is recounted in Jim Farrell’s book. By Ray O’Hanlon As...

Bobby Kennedy campaigning in Los Angeles By Irish Echo Staff A roundtable discussion entitled “The Life and Legacy of Robert Francis Kennedy” is be...

The Irish Consulate in New York, in association with the New York Irish Center, Irish Network New York and the Lavender and Green Alliance, recentl...

Bill Flynn By Ray O’Hanlon William J. “Bill Flynn, a top corporate executive who applied his considerable energies and business acumen to the quest...

Tim Rooney (left), President and CEO of Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway, presents Christmas gifts for the less fortunate to Monsignor Kevin S...

Martin McGuinness By Irish Echo Staff The Ancient Order of Hibernians has drawn up an action plan aimed at securing support for the recently unveil...