MY friend and comrade Gerry Kelly has announced his decision not to stand in the Assembly election next May. That does not mean that he will no lon...

KEEP ON TRUCKING: A fact-finding delegation from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, led by President Sean O'Brien, was in Belfast this mor...

The Dublin Horse Show gets under way on Wednesday and there will be great celebrations on Friday as it will be the 100th anniversary of the first-e...

KEEP ON TRUCKING: A fact-finding delegation from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, led by President Sean O'Brien, was in Belfast this mor...

The 20th annual Iowa Irish Fest returns to downtown Waterloo’s Lincoln Park beginning Friday, July 31 and running through August 2, bringing with i...

Pic of Day: There was a memorial musical get-together in Dublin honoring Glen Hansard. Performers shared songs and memories of the Oscar-winning mu...

For a guy who gets sick on the Strangford ferry, I took to the inaugural Irish Echo Maritime Awards in New York this past April like a duck to wate...

Amid all the alarming reports of fires, floods and heat domes around the world in recent weeks and months there was a report that, in only a slight...

FÉILE an Phobail is the launch pad each year of exiting new projects, and especially new books. One such book this year is ‘Women’s Voices, Hopes f...

The Ring of Kerry, the 110-mile coastal route (N70) around the Iveragh Peninsula, is one of the most popular driving routes in all of Ireland. Ther...

In the media yoke this week is “Rule of Three,” the new album from fiddle player Maura Shawn Scanlin. Joined by John Doyle (guitar and bouzouki), D...

My late grandfather Frank Houlihan was an Iron Worker who fell to his death while working on a building in 1916, leaving behind my dad, (who was 12...

In 2019, I decided to move to the abandoned Great Blasket Island. As we prepared for the crossing, duffel bags filled and ticked lists, writing a b...

Stories matter. For Irish Americans, they are a way to celebrate identity and ensure that we and the next generation know who we are and where we c...

The Dublin Horse Show gets under way on Wednesday and there will be great celebrations on Friday as it will be the 100th anniversary of the first-e...

Bohemians fought Ballkani of Kosovo to an aggregate 4-4 over 210 minutes in their Conference League 2nd qualifying game. But in the 2nd leg’s penal...