Community Features & Events
Police muster for 17th Irish Law & Order Awards
It was a full house at Club 101 on Park Avenue, New York on Friday past for the annual Irish Echo Law & Order Awards which salute law enforcement o...
January 26, 2026
by Irish Echo Staff
Community Features & Events
The Gifted Speaker from Sligo
Rediscovering William Bourke Cockran, Irish-born orator who inspired Churchill By Harry Keaney SLIGO --- In the late 19th and early 20th centuries,...
January 19, 2026
by Harry Keaney
Community Features & Events
St Pat's for All gearing up for 1 March parade
St. Pat’s for All, the St Patrick's Day parade founded in 1999 in response to the ban on LGBT groups from the main New York parade, is gearing up f...
January 17, 2026
by Anthony Neeson
Community Features & Events
TRIBUTE: Patriot from Rebel stock who stood tall for Ireland in Philadelphia
I was saddened to learn of the passing of my friend Phil Mullen of Philadelphia, the grandson of 1916 revolutionary figure Joe McGarrity of Carrick...
January 15, 2026
by Declan McAleer MLA
Fair wind behind inaugural Irish Maritime Awards
The Irish Echo is setting sail on a new journey with the first-ever Irish Maritime Awards earmarked for New York in May 2026. Guest speaker at the ...
December 20, 2025
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
Community Features & Events
Tim Bear Foundation launches annual beach wheelchair fundraiser
The annual Tim Bear Foundation Holiday Fundraiser and Raffle will take place in Bantry Bay, Greenpoint Avenue, Long Island City on Saturday 13 Dece...
November 23, 2025
by Anthony Neeson
Community Features & Events
Gleeson Portrays the Ups and Downs of Newspaper Editing
Irish actor Domhnall Gleeson has performed in many roles and his latest, to be seen on the NBC screening network Peacock, has him as a newspaper ed...
November 11, 2025
by By Darcie Zudell
Community Features & Events
CHICAGO CALLING: Boz O’Brien
Many years ago, (and by “many” I mean over thirty) I reached out to a publican for advice on my career. His name was Boz O’Brien and he was the own...
November 06, 2025
by Mike Houlihan
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
OPINION: Digital Irish Tech Week is putting Ireland, North and South, on the map
Coming off the back of the September Homecoming events in Belfast — where the city has moved from a place of promise to a city of delivery — last w...
October 30, 2025
by Mike Flannery
Community Features & Events
Commodore John Barry’s Bronzed Encore
Boston --- You could say that Commodore John Barry, Irish-born hero of the American Revolution, has been AWOL in Boston for nearly half a century. ...
October 13, 2025
by By Michael Quinlin
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
Fair wind behind inaugural Irish Maritime Awards
