Pic of Day: Kinsale under a blue Cork sky and from Charles Fort at the mouth of its harbor. The scene of the Battle of Kinsale in 1601, the town kn...

Larry Kirwan has covered many bases in his storied career. All those bases will be duly acknowledged this coming October when the Black 47 founder ...

Pic of Day: The International Rose of Tralee Tour visited Tipperary over the weekend so shining a spotlight on the beautiful county as part of thei...

Athenian democracy lasted about 250 years from the early seventh century B.C.E. It was a magnificently successful experiment, involving military do...

The cost of living crisis is taking a terrible toll on families. Food and energy bills are increasing at a phenomenal rate pushing more and more pe...

Is America broken? It’s a question that is posed with increasing frequency. I used to dismiss it out of hand. This country has come through so much...

A short while ago I received a copy of “Always a Journey, Never a Destination: A Clare Footprint,” a 30-minute or so film produced by musician and ...

Mahatma Gandhi was a Hindu, and he was a nationalist. It would’ve been wrong, however, to describe him as a Hindu nationalist. Indeed, that was the...

It was during the 1950s that the movement for Emerald Societies took hold with the formation of the NYPD Emerald Society (Police Department, City o...

A hundred years ago, combatants began reckoning with the damage done by the Battle of the Four Courts in Dublin, identified as the beginning of the...

Irish Echo Event Calendar 2022/2023 Law & Order Awards - 2023 Nominate here 40 Under 40 Awards - 2023 - Nominate here Community Champion Awards -20...

The GAA inter-county season ended with the All-Ireland football final between Kerry and Galway on July 24. We won’t have another inter-county footb...

Andy Farrell has agreed a two-year contract extension to stay on as Irish Rugby head coach until 2025. The IRFU moved quickly to tie down Farrell b...