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Pic of Day: People are on the move for Christmas. Pictured is the scene at Heuston Train Station in Dublin as passengers leave the Irish capital fo...

Dear Friends, A Chairde, as we prepare for the holiday season and the start of a New Year, I would like to take a moment to look back at the journe...

Bethann Rooney is at peace when she’s at sea. The director of the Port of New York, however, was forced to change course as a young woman, having i...

I went to see "The Agreement" at The Gate in Dublin recently, Owen McCafferty’s valiant attempt at dramatizing the historical sausage-making that b...

Pic of Day: Chief Terri Tobin, a 2014 Irish Echo Law & Order honoree has retired from the NYPD after 41 years of distinguished service. She is pict...

Ahead of the Christmas rush, closure of the Holyhead Port in Wales has led to travel and freight disruption and concerns that many gifts and post w...

Irish America, and Irish freedom, has lost a quiet giant with the passing of John (“Jack”) O’Brien. Jack died at his home with his family by his si...

Pic of Day: Independent TD Verona Murphy made Irish political history today after her successful election to the position of Ceann Comhairle in Lei...

Photo of the Day: This montage in tribute to the late Jack O'Brien was composed by his friend George McLaughlin of the Fenian Memorial Committee of...

Israel is to close its embassy in Dublin due to what it calls the “extreme anti-Israel policies of the Irish government." In a statement, Israel’s ...

Pic of Day: The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence, Micheál Martin, hosted Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty of Egypt in Iveagh Ho...

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated New Jersey's Edward Walsh as the next United States Ambassador to Ireland. If confirmed by the Senate, W...