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[caption id="attachment_75234" align="alignnone" width="600"] Almost there. Senator Charles Schumer, who had crisscrossed Fifth Avenue greeting spe...

By Sean Lehane The murder of a garda during the robbery of a credit union in January has led to calls for gardai to have the Uzi submachine gun - p...

By Irish Echo Staff Dinner for two at Gaelic Park? It could well be date in the near future for many in New York's Irish/Irish American and Gaelic ...

By Anthony Neeson Ten years ago you would have been hard pressed to find a St Patrick's Day parade in Northern Ireland, however, as another sign of...

[caption id="attachment_75123" align="alignnone" width="600"] Joseph V. Buckley.[/caption] Joseph V. Buckley, a native of County Kerry and a promin...

By Ray O'Hanlon Total global domination is a way's off yet and in all truth the Irish would take a pass anyway. But total global greening - that's ...

Al Smith IV leads bands, marching units By Ray O'Hanlon It was a parade full of the joyful and the poignant. It was also a parade of two meteorolog...

Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has said the death threat he has received from dissident republicans won't silence him. Mr. McGuinness reve...

by Ray O'Hanlon Cardinal Timothy Dolan may or may not be back in New York from Rome by Saturday, but if he is not, Cardinal Edward Egan will be on ...

By Ray O'Hanlon This is a story about a ring that traveled full circle. And it's journey took about as long as a Tolkien tale - 64 years to be prec...

By Irish Echo Staff In 1845, Frederick Douglass, then an escaped slave from Maryland living in Massachusetts, traveled to Ireland and Britain, in p...

By Sean Lehane An American man accused of murdering a County Wexford woman in Japan last year has said he had no reason to kill her. Nicola Furlong...