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By Vinny McCormack In 1960 an awkward lanky seventeen-year-old called Inez Murphy left her home in Cultra County Down to work as a junior clerk in ...

By Irish Echo Staff It will be a winning combination. Boxing legend Muhammad Ali will this week pay tribute to Irish boxers of yore at the McClella...

The life of frequent Irish Echo contributor Patrick Fenton and his family was turned upside down by Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 29. In this essay in di...

By Sean Lehane A massive manhunt continues in Ireland this week after a Garda detective was ruthlessly gunned down outside Dundalk, County Louth du...

By Peter McDermott The quiet conversations in the line outside St. Brigid’s were mainly in Spanish. Then a teenage choir member bounded towards an ...

By Anthony Neeson aneeson@irishecho.com A Belfast man who survived last week's Algerian hostage crisis has returned home to his family. Stephen McF...

By Ray O'Hanlon rohanlon@irishecho.com Alfred E. Smith IV was installed as Grand Marshal of the 252nd annual New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade...

Frank McCourt, in the wake of his success with "Angela's Ashes," felt that any Irish person who fails to jot down his or her story was beyond an ee...

By Irish Echo Staff letters@irishecho.com Against the backdrop of President's Obama's new term and the new Congress, the coalition of Irish-America...

By Terry Golway When most of us hear about political extremists, we immediately think of the Middle East or other areas of the world where fanatics...

Sandy aid from Chicago Lakefront to Jersey Shore By Ray O'Hanlon Congress might be reluctant to pony up for Sandy relief but, as has been evident i...

By Paul Ainsworth GARDAI are preparing for a loyalist rally in the center of Dublin linked to the ongoing row over the removal of the union flag fr...