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The local can be this local By Evan Short One of Ireland’s greatest exports is arguably the Irish Pub with even Kabul in Afghanistan boasting such ...

Kathleen Donohoe. PHOTO BY BEOWULF SHEEHAN Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott When “We Are Not Ourselves” – a multi-generational novel about a...

At the event in St. Mary's University College in Belfast headlined “Lessons from the Loughinisland Massacre” are (l-r) solicitor Niall Murphy, jour...

Soccer pundit Phil Brown (right) has launched new Manchester United podcast By Evan Short The Belfast man who has helped to spread the popularity o...

The center of Dublin in the aftermath of the Easter Rising. The stories and significance behind Ireland’s quest for independence, the movement’s co...

By Irish Echo Staff The Irish American Heritage Museum in Albany will feature artist Greg Montgomery in a presentation and reception on Tuesday, Au...

Pat Hickey in Rio before his arrest. Inpho photo. By Evan Short The Irish Olympic delegation has been thrown into turmoil after the arrest of its m...

John Timoney By Ray O’Hanlon If the epitome of the Irish American cop was called up by central casting, John Timoney would have been ready to fill ...

Maureen Thielen with her husband Charles. By Ray O’Hanlon It was the dream Irish holiday of a lifetime. Until the dream was stolen. Maureen Thielen...

Rep. Robert Dold. By Ray O’Hanlon. rohanlon@irishecho.com In this presidential election campaign like no other, the nuts and bolts of policy debate...

By Ray O’Hanlon Doping, dirty water, the Zika Virus, crime and security concerns, grinding poverty abutting Olympic glitz. The 2016 Summer Olympic ...

By Daniel Neely As you read this, the 2016 Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann is raging away in Ennis, Co. Clare. I hadn’t arrived at the time of writing, b...