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President Michael D. Higgins (pictured) and his wife Sabina Higgins celebrated May Day by hosting an event celebrating youth activism. In Celtic tr...

Malachy McAllister By Irish Echo Staff Malachy McAllister has been given a last minute reprieve from deportation but faces the same dilemma six mon...

Rank and file gardaí are seeking a 24-hour armed support unit in every division in the country to deal with violent crime. Delegates are gathered i...

Sean J. Somers will be honored at the 2nd Annual Small Business-Big Impact Awards in Boston on Friday. By Peter McDermott Empathy. That what Boston...

Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary, Kevin McAleenan By Ray O’Hanlon Senator Charles Schumer has appealed directly to the Acting Secre...

Many fine words, songs and poems have been written about the Easter Rising of 1916, which began on April 24 in that year. Some were written by thos...

Malachy McAllister with Senator George Mitchell By Irish Echo Staff The Ancient Order of Hibernians is expressing its anger and frustration over th...

Victor Mee holding the first anniversary Proclamation By Irish Echo Staff One of only three known surviving first-anniversary copies of the Irish P...

Lyra McKee’s coffin is carried out of St. Anne’s Cathedral in Belfast. RollingNews.ie photo By Irish Echo Staff The funeral of slain journalist Lyr...

The new James Connolly Visitor Centre in Belfast was opened with great fanfare. Among the attendees was former New York City Council member Elizabe...

Malachy McAllister with Cardinal Timothy Dolan By Ray O’Hanlon If expressions of support from powerful and influential people are anything to go by...

Former President Mary McAleese and her husband Martin met with Capt. Paul Conlin after he’d read the 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic on Eas...