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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...

Everton, the next generation. PHOTO: MARK TAYLOR Arsenal Scott Silver, Los Angeles native, Belfast resident Again, we don't have the depth to compe...

Pádraig Duggan shared Donegal with the world By Colleen Taylor This week, the Celtic music genre lost an important father figure. Pádraig Duggan, o...

Ireland's Gary and Paul O'Donovan celebrate with their silver medals. INPHO/MORGAN TREACY By Irish Echo Staff Call them the Irish Boys in the Boat....

PHOTO: MARGARET M. JOHNSON By Margaret M. Johnson If you love good food, you’ll want to visit Northern Ireland in 2016 for its “Year of Food and Dr...

What passes for “culture” for some in Belfast By Evan Short Nationalist leaders have said they were abandoned by the government and police in Belfa...