News
NO DUP Representative
The DUP did not send a representative to the inauguration of Catherine Connolly as President of Ireland. Stormont’s Deputy First Minister Emma Litt...
November 12, 2025
by Anthony Neeson
News
Pic of the Day: New York supporters step up for Kylemore Sisters
The Kylemore Abbey Team was in New York last week to thank Irish American supporters who made possible the completion of a new Monastery, Education...
November 08, 2025
by Anthony Neeson
News
DJ Carey Sentenced for Fraud
Former Kilkenny hurling great DJ Carey has been jailed for five-and-a-half years for defrauding individuals by falsely claiming that he had cancer....
November 03, 2025
by Anthony Neeson
Culture
Boston scribe in Belfast, Dublin to tell Rest of the Story
Boston author and activist Michael Patrick MacDonald returned to Belfast last week for the latest chapter in his 'The Rest of the Story' initiative...
November 03, 2025
by Anthony Neeson
News
Donaldson Trial Postponed
The sex abuse trial of former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has been postponed once more due to the ill-health of his wife, Lady Eleanor Donaldson, ...
October 22, 2025
by Anthony Neeson
News
McDonald Wants to See a Plan
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has called on the Irish government to plan and prepare for Irish unity. She was speaking ahead of a Dáil motion ...
October 21, 2025
by Anthony Neeson
Community Features & Events
Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder named Emeralds' 2026 Irishman of the Year
The Grand Council of United Emerald Societies (GCUES) has named Patrick J. Ryder, Police Commissioner of the Nassau County Police Department, as it...
October 10, 2025
by Anthony Neeson
News
SDLP's Hanna Wants 'New Island' Ministry
SDLP leader Claire Hanna has told her party conference that the Irish government must create a ministry for a “new island” to plan for a future ref...
October 06, 2025
by Anthony Neeson
News
Quinnipiac quizzed over continued closure of Great Hunger Museum
Irish Echo publisher and Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters of Quinnipiac University, Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, has called on the Connecticut college's n...
September 23, 2025
by Anthony Neeson
Community Features & Events
Belfast's twin top restaurants cooking up a storm for annual Homecoming
Visitors to this week's Belfast International Homecoming are being invited to savour the city at two iconic restaurants led by acclaimed chef Niall...
September 23, 2025
by Anthony Neeson
WATCH: Comptroller pledges stronger links with labor, Ireland at Echo gala
The annual Irish Echo Labor Awards in New York became a platform for a renewed commitment to workers’ rights and cross-Atlantic solidarity, as New ...
September 17, 2025
by Anthony Neeson
News
Former Soldier Facing Bloody Sunday Murder Charges
A former member of the British army’s Parachute Regiment has gone on trial in Belfast charged with murdering two men on Bloody Sunday. Soldier F ha...
September 16, 2025
by Anthony Neeson