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...

It has been one of those summers in Ireland, the kind of season that people will be referring back to years from now. Many in Ireland still talk of...

In a world on fire every bit of green counts. Elizabeth Street Garden in Lower Manhattan is a tiny sliver of green in the mostly asphalt and concre...

Few in Ireland are going to quickly forget the last week of July 2026. It all began with tumultuous celebrations after Mayo cast aside 75 years of ...

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...