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Sean O’Callaghan in a 2012 RTE interview photo By Irish Echo Staff Sean O’Callaghan, a onetime IRA member who became an informer, and then wrote ab...

All U.S. senators have been alerted by the Irish National Caucus about a threat to the MacBride Principles contained in the Financial Choice Act By...

Michelle O'Neill of Sinn Féin. ROLLINGNEWS. IE By Evan Short A new war of words has broken out between Sinn Féin and the DUP after the republican p...

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, James Brokenshire MP, right, and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Simon Coveney TD meeting on Tuesda...

Kathleen Donohoe, author of the acclaimed novel “Ashes of Fiery Weather,” is among the Salon stalwarts headed for the Electric Picnic in County Lao...

Joseph Geiger, Executive Secretary-Treasurer for the NYCDCC; Jared Allen, former Minnesota Vikings defensive end and founder of the Jared Allen’s H...

Anyone searching for the largest and liveliest Irish festival in the US might be forgiven for looking first to Boston or New York or Chicago. And w...

Phil Donahue, center of photo, was co-grand marshal of the St. Pat's For All Parade in Sunnyside and Woodside in March. Television talk-show pionee...

Pictured, from left, following the Ulster Unionist Party-Conradh na Gaeilge meeting were Ciarán Mac Giolla Bhéin, advocacy manager, Conradh na Gaei...

Murder victim Jason Corbett By Irish Echo Staff Jurors in the North Carolina murder trial arising from the death of Limerick native Jason Corbett h...

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in Belfast. Pacemaker photo. By Anthony Neeson Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has told an audience in Belfast that time is running o...

Alan “Cookie” McNamara By Evan Short A notorious U.S.-based biker gang has formally linked itself with a Limerick motorcycle outfit after one of th...