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By Anthony Neeson A talented Tyrone minor footballer has been charged with murdering his father at the weekend Aloysius Hackett, 60, a former chair...

By Larry Kirwan So, the Pecker Dunne finally bit the dust. Must have been one hell of an ailment that laid him low, for neither wind, rain, rough l...

By Anthony Neeson Over 100 people have been arrested and over 60 police officers injured since loyalists began their protest over the removal of th...

By Anthony Neeson An SDLP politician is the latest member of a political party in Northern Ireland to receive a bullet in the mail. A letter addres...

By Jim Smith BOSTON --- Edward M. Kennedy Jr. has announced that he will not be a candidate in the Massachusetts special election to fill the seat ...

Politicians have condemned the planting of a bomb under a policeman's car in Belfast. The viable device was placed under a serving officer's car in...

There are many individual gatherings in the year of The Gathering. Some of them are based on county allegiance and Leitrim is first out of the bloc...

By Ray O'Hanlon rohanlon@irishecho.com Dublin --- It was a few days before Christmas and thoughts of "The Gathering" were stirring in the mind of N...

Belfast City Council votes to lower Union Flag By Anthony Neeson aneeson@irishecho.com Rioting loyalists stormed the courtyard of Belfast City Hall...

By Irish Echo Staff Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is to visit Belfast as well as Dublin this week. Secretary Clinton will travel to Belfast on...

The first one was such a success that organizers behind the Irish Day of Action for Sandy relief, or "Meitheal," are undertaking a second one on De...

By Frieda Klotz letters@irishecho.com For seven years, Mary Philbin has been battling the side effects of illness. Now she has an opportunity to re...