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Duddy threw everything including the proverbial kitchen sink at Medina before 51,000 spectators in the massive stadium. The split nod saw the Derry...

In an interview last week on FOX Business Network's Connell McShane, Cowen said low corporate taxes are a "fundamental plank" for the Irish economy...

Some 225 jobs at bookseller Hughes & Hughes were axed as the chain entered receivership. The company blamed high commercial rents, a rise in intern...

Written in 1947 by Hy Heath and Johnny Lange, this pugnaciously daft ditty indulged the stage Oirish stereotype of a character getting "his Irish u...

"The Eclipse" began as a collaboration with Wexford playwright Billy Roche, whose short story "Table Manners" from his collection "Tales From Rainw...

"When I was approached to do this, I said, 'I'm not an interviewer,'" Brennan told the Irish Echo in a recent phone interview. "And so I said, 'Loo...

If that first piece of wisdom might apply to life in general, the Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow man has plenty of advice specifically relating to tracin...

As the chairman of the Banking Committee, he is overseeing the formation of a new consumer protection agency to regulate the deep-pocketed financia...

Now, thanks to the coming to light of an issue from late 1929, and an unusual numbering formula attached to it, the mystery has been solved. Charle...

In Washington, Cowen will be presenting a St. Patrick's Day bowl of shamrock to President Barack Obama in what has become an annual ritual. He will...

The posthumous award, named after the late Congressman Tom Manton from Queens, was accepted by Kennedy on behalf of her uncle to loud applause and ...

"It's a great honor to put this on," he said. "I know you know my record from the other side, but whether you wear pinstripes or red socks, you sin...