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Christina Steps From Yonkers to the World
Irish dance Christina Mariel Wiltz, age 15, slipped on her first pair of soft shoes at age four in Yonkers, New York at the Open House of the Grand...
May 26, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
EDITORIAL: So What's The Question?
For ever and a day, and a few days more, it was "The Irish Question." The Irish themselves indeed had a few questions, but they weren't all about t...
May 25, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Legacy Doesn't Disappear
The issues swirling around the North right now, its political, social and economic life, seems both new and familiar. There's Brexit and the Protoc...
May 18, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
EDITORIAL: History Is Made
When all the votes were counted the view of the past gave way to a view into the future. Voters in Northern Ireland have made history with an Assem...
May 11, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
EDITORIAL: The New Medieval
Many have voiced the same expression of disbelief. How can this be happening in 2022, in the 21st Century? We humans like to take comfort in the fa...
April 20, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
When love became more than duty
By Rachel Gotto I had already been in labor for two days. Each contraction brought with it gripping pain but little else. I was determined to give ...
April 14, 2022
by Rachel Gotto
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Guest Of The Nation
The visage and voice of Yury Anatoliyevich Filatov are a familiar combination in Ireland of late. Filatov, of course, is Russia's ambassador to Dub...
April 06, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
EDITORIAL: The Debate Over 'Almost'
Ireland might be on the other side of Europe from war ravaged Ukraine. But distance doesn't mean remoteness. Like it or not the war is looming larg...
March 30, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
It’s Triple glory for Ireland as France crowned champs
Ireland 26; Scotland 5 Ireland celebrated a rare enough Triple Crown moment but it was a pyrrhic victory for Andy Farrell’s squad as France beat En...
March 24, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
EDITORIAL: A Growing Catastrophe
A month into Russia's war against Ukraine we are witnessing an unfolding catastrophe that is steadily becoming more global in its reach. Ukraine is...
March 23, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
EDITORIAL: St. Patrick's Spirit
If ever there was a moment in time that we needed the spirit of St. Patrick's to be abroad in the world it is now. The events of recent weeks in Uk...
March 16, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Turner launch
Pierce Turner, the Wexford singer-songwriter long resident in Manhattan, has been getting a lot of attention back in Ireland, where he spends part ...
March 10, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff