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By Ray O'Hanlon Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore and tourism minister Leo Varadkar are in New York this week to formally launch "The Gathering," the year-lon...

Addressing the annual Irish Labor 50 awards night Monday, LIUNA General President, Terry O'Sullivan, said the honorees "reflect and embody the grea...

By Irish Echo Staff The life of John Corridan, the Jesuit priest who campaigned for New York’s longshoremen in post-war New York, will be at rememb...

[caption id="attachment_73456" align="alignnone" width="600"] The Ireland-U.S. Council's recent Golf Day in Ireland was held at Dun Laoghaire Golf ...

Talk about 40 Shades of Grey! History's tints are legion and encompass every color in the spectrum. And yet we often speak of the past as though et...

The GAA has announced that the firm Mott MacDonald, who have built some the world's leading sports arenas, including the Aviva Stadium in Dublin an...

A dissident republican paramilitary-style funeral has prompted garda to announce a crackdown on terrorist groups such as the Real IRA. The move fol...

The path to the United States Supreme Court is a winding one and there is no certainty that the nine justices will end up considering the tangled l...

Three leading Irish American organizations supporting the campaign to have withdrawn the subpoenas directed at Boston College in the Troubles archi...

Clearly the luck of the Irish isn't up to the year that's soon to be in it. The Irish government is reportedly set to introduce a new license-plate...

Campaigners against "barbaric" blood sports such as fox hunting are planning a mass rally in Dublin to call for tougher laws. The government is pre...

COLOURFUL TD Mick Wallace could face trouble if he tries to return to a group representing independent members of the Irish parliament. Wallace, fa...