Sinn Féin MLA Deirdre Hargey is to stand in as Economy Minister at Stormont on an interim basis. The news comes after First Minister Michelle O’Nei...

Just seven days remain for nominations for the 14th annual Irish Echo Labor Awards in New York. Scheduled for the Edison Hotel on 6 September, the ...

Ireland is set to raise the legal age of buying cigarettes from 18 to 21 years. Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly will introduce the legislation...

Queen's University in Belfast is to divest from Israeli companies on a UN blacklist . The university's pledge comes days after students occupied th...

Trinity College Dublin is to divest from investment in companies that have activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and are blacklisted by ...

THE founder of a trailblazing peace project which took over 23,000 children to the US during the worst years of the conflict travelled to Belfast a...

IT'S difficult to imagine that there was a time in our recent history when parents sent their children away to America during the summer to escape ...

A special evening celebrating 50 years of the trailblazing Project Children initiative which united thousands of Irish American families with child...

The Society of Irish American Lawyers (SOCIAL) has awarded its annual $2,000 scholarship to New Rochelle, NY High School student Ann Gombiner. Ann ...

The planets aligned for Belfast, Ireland and the 'Capital of Irish America' Buffalo, NY, this week - and we're not talking eclipse of the sun eithe...

Leo Varadkar’s last official engagement as taoiseach saw him travel to Armagh on Monday for a North-South Ministerial Council (NSMC) meeting. With ...

That Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Simon Coveney, is stepping down from the Irish government's Cabinet might have more to do with ...