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David Bobbett By Evan Short letters@irishecho.com A successful Irish businessman, who built his fortune by outfitting McDonald’s restaurant kitchen...

Honorary Consul Noel Trainor By Ray O’Hanlon rohanlon@irishecho.com The grief spanned the Atlantic. It spanned America. It also spans the wide stre...

Tim V. Smyth and Carol Anne McGowan, aka Hidden Highways, will be touring Ireland throughout the summer. By Colleen Taylor letters@irishecho.com Fo...

Ambassador Anne Anderson By Ray O’Hanlon rohanlon@irishecho.com Back in the early days of 1989, another century and, in terms of media and communic...

Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott Rob Doyle. PHOTO BY AL HIGGINS Rob Doyle, who holds a first-class honors degree in philosophy and an MPhil ...

Deborah Kruel Rupy plays Mary in "The Caretaker of Corofin." By Peter McDermott pmcdermott@irishecho.com It was late on New Year’s Eve, 1986, in Co...

A Russian TU-95 “Bear” bomber By Ray O’Hanlon rohanlon@irishecho.com The story almost had an air of routine about it. The report, compiled by the P...

By Ray O’Hanlon rohanlon@irishecho.com With funerals taking place in Ireland this week for four of the six Berkeley balcony collapse victims, a ser...

By Daniel Neely There’s a pub in Camden Town, London, called the Good Mixer where the Britpop scene has gone to drink, fight and carry on for the b...

The multiple-awarding winning novelist Anne Enright was named in January to the new official position of laureate for Irish fiction. PHOTO: HUGH CH...

President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina signing the book of condolences at the Mansion House in Dublin By Ray O’Hanlon rohanlon@irishecho....

The six who died in the Berkeley balcony collapse By Ray O’Hanlon rohanlon@irishecho.com Questions were being raised today over the structural inte...