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Last week I received an email from Don Meade, a multi-instrumentalist who has been one of traditional music’s fiercest supporters for decades, that...

Villanova University, 30 minutes north of Philadelphia, PA, has always had an Irish connection. Founded by two Irish Augustinian friars in 1842, Ir...

Hollywood would have to bring a young Maureen O’Hara back from the past to play Chicago Fire Department Ambulance Commander Margaret Murphy. She’s ...

Pic of Day: This Red Panda is living in the Himalayan Hills in Dublin. No, this is not an April Fools joke. The Panda's home is part of the new Him...

Ireland's Ambassador to the United Nations, Geraldine Byrne Nason, will be moving to Washington later this year where she will take up the post of ...

Sometimes the interviews on TV don’t do it. People have become immune to the horror, in Vinnie Nauheimer’s view. Twenty years ago this week, his fa...

Jim Magee had just returned from Manhattan Criminal Court on a recent Wednesday morning when he took a moment to speak with the Irish Echo by phone...

Pic of Day: Congressman Lee Zeldin, the leading Republican candidate for the governorship of New York, had a busy St. Patrick's season marching in ...

Delays in processing Irish passport applications are leading to holiday cancellations. Over 180,000 applications are waiting to go through the syst...

Pic of Day: This is an artistic rendering of the future USS Patrick Gallagher but the actual ship took a big step today towards its final shape wit...

The four Russian "diplomats" were anything but - this in the view of Irish authorities. Ireland sent the Russians packing Tuesday for activities in...

Photo of the Day: There were emotional scenes at The Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Foxrock, County Dublin Tuesday morning for the funera...