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Derry/Londonderry is marking 400 years as a walled city By Norman Houston Though celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agree...

President George H.W. Bush By Ray O’Hanlon The nation has paused for a day of mourning after the death on Friday, November 30, at age 94, of George...

Bono By Irish Echo Staff Concern Worldwide U.S. will hold its 22nd Annual Seeds of Hope Award Dinner at Cipriani Wall Street this evening, Tuesday....

President George H W Bush By Ray O’Hanlon There were two types of hold today on progress for the Irish E-3 Visas legislation passed by the U.S. Hou...

Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) cuts the first steel plate for the USS Patrick Gallagher. Dennis Griggs/U.S. Navy photo. By Ray O’Hanlon It wasn’t a f...

From the exhibit at the Michael J Murphy Winter School. By Gerry Adams Two weeks ago I was pleased to speak at the Michael J Murphy Winter School i...

Carol Gillen Costello The death has taken place of Carol Gillen Costello, a longtime member of the Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians and a member ...

John Deasy: House vote welcome but Senate will be a challenge. RollingNews.ie photo. By Ray O’Hanlon It was a rare example of bipartisanship on Cap...

Ireland is being lashed by the latest named storm. This one is Storm Diana and the Poolbeg lighthouse at the entrance to the port of Dublin was tak...

The House of Representatives is expected to vote today on H.R. 7164 which would allow Irish nationals to apply for E-3 Visas. By Ray O’Hanlon Shari...

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar meeting with the Rev. Mervyn Gibson who headed a delegation of Orange Order lodges from the South’s border counties for a me...

John McGee was known to most who knew him as Danny. Facebook photo. By Ray O’Hanlon Communities on both sides of the Atlantic were in a state of st...