Dublin's Golden Girl Kellie Is Welcomed Home
Olympic boxing gold medalist Kellie Harrington gives a thumbs up from an open top bus to the throngs of well wishers when arriving home in Dublin T...
August 11, 2021
by Irish Echo Staff
Hochul Holds Fast To Her Irish Heritage
In south Buffalo, the streets are given traditional Irish names and covered in shamrocks. This is where Kathy Hochul, the lieutenant governor of th...
August 11, 2021
by By Nora Scally
A new kind of conservative leader
Ross Douthat is confused. Hopelessly so. Well, that’s the charitable explanation. Most specifically, I’m referring to his New York Times column thi...
August 10, 2021
by Peter McDermott
An Irish American in the Wings
With the announcement by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo that he will resign, the state's lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul, is poised to step into ...
August 10, 2021
by Irish Echo Staff
Silver Into Gold
Ireland's Kellie Harrington turned silver into gold by winning her final olympic boxing bout on Sunday. This was Ireland's second gold medal to add...
August 09, 2021
by Irish Echo Staff
And Finally, And Just One More….
Columbo always had just one more question. Paddy Murray always had one more story. But he drew the line at 250 of them and he placed them in a book...
August 05, 2021
by Ray O'Hanlon
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I Could Be Writing for the Southern Cross
By Larry Kirwan Have you ever been down Argentina way? Talk about the eight Celtic nations - I’ve often felt that Argentina could claim number nine...
August 05, 2021
by Larry Kirwan
Vaccine Clinics Hailed as 'Huge Success'
(The HSE's Paul Reid. RollingNews.ie photo) New walk-in clinics in operation in the Republic of Ireland have been deemed a “huge success” after 18,...
August 05, 2021
by Irish Echo Staff
Pedaling Through Leafy Limerick
Cycling Ireland 2021 Road National Series Round 2. That's the formal title but the picture is of cyclists speeding through the leafy lanes in Knock...
August 04, 2021
by Irish Echo Staff
Boyle Adds IFI Amendment to House Bill
Congressman Brendan Boyle Congressman Brendan Boyle has long stood behind the International Fund for Ireland and he was standing tall once again la...
August 04, 2021
by Irish Echo Staff
‘Mainline’ is no longer on the sideline
[The Rev. Billy Graham, pictured here in 1966, was identified with the wing of evangelical Christianity in the U.S. that trusted in science and rea...
August 04, 2021
by Peter McDermott
Way to Go Kellie
Irish olympic boxer and bronze medal winner Kellie Harrington’s parents Yvonne and Christy outside their home in Portland Row, Dublin. Kellie’s win...
August 03, 2021
by Irish Echo Staff