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Flynn, former Boston mayor, U.S. ambassador to the Vatican and now Irish Echo columnist, will head a march with the theme of "Heroes and Heroines o...

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn are also expected to march The parade, also known as the "St Pat's For All" parade...

But she will be glancing over her shoulder nonetheless. Not so much at the Humvees, but in the direction of Congressman Patrick Murphy who is expec...

Up and down and across the United States, the coming weeks will witness parades, festivals and gatherings celebrating the best of all things Irish....

Leprechauns, sober and otherwise, depictions of Irish and Irish Americans in similar "otherwise" mode, Irish jokes, liquids suddenly green that nev...

Also on Sunday the hurlers of Tipperary and Kilkenny will be hoping that it's third time lucky and they will get to play one another in Thurles. Th...

"It's a 10 round fight and if we gotta go 10 rounds, we'll do so," said Brooklyn native Harry Keitt last Saturday. The once beaten Medina [22-1-2, ...

Tommy Bowe's searing try six minutes from the final whistle might've been the streamlined product of hours of work on the training pitch, but this ...

Irish workers "largely wasted" their income during the economic boom, the Davy study said. The study, according to the Irish Times, said that one o...

The Shamrock House will continue to operate as a resort under the new ownership, according to a release. The Kellegher Family, in a letter, "to our...

Bill Cain's wise, incisive, compassionate "Equivocation" is like a burst of unexpected sunshine nearly strong enough to warm our entire snow-filled...

Perhaps Msgr. Charlie Coen's recent induction into Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann's Mid-Atlantic Region Hall of Fame was on my mind. But I also rememb...