This being the 250th year of an independent United States it would be an appropriate moment to reflect on all the sacrifice that has gone into winn...

Those Americans who went to bed early Tuesday night might be forgiven for thinking they had traveled in time and space when waking to the new day o...

This editorial is being written before Midterm Election Day. It will be read when the dust has settled; or perhaps not. Elections these times are f...

With the days ticking down to the Midterm elections there is much talk about the cost of living. And there should be. Back in 2024 there was much t...

Traditionally, the President of the United States is accorded the title of "Leader of the Free World." Lately, however, the title has been up for g...

We have just marked another Columbus Day. Also Indigenous Peoples' Day - though only the Columbus part of the day is an official federal holiday. A...

Longtime readers will be well aware of the fact that the Echo has focused not infrequently on the role of Irish Americans in defending the United S...

Back in the late 1990s, when Drumcree and the Garvaghy road were headlines in ink that never went dry, the Echo featured a front page cover photo f...

The meeting between President Catherine Connolly and President Trump went off well enough. There were fears over a possible clash of views but both...

Back in 1992, at the Irish American Presidential Forum in Manhattan, Bill Clinton would utter words that would reverberate over time, into his pres...

We will hear the line again and again in the coming days. I can't believe it has been 25 years. But it has been a quarter of a century since the pe...

Not for the first time has a British prime minister put his foot in it when Northern Ireland is under the foot. Andy Burnham, visiting the North, i...