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When it comes to bringing aid and comfort, you can’t beat a teddy bear. By Ray O’Hanlon I have never met these girls. I only know that they have be...

Honoree Dan Dennehy By Ray O’Hanlon Often forgotten, still here, never certain of always being here, the “deportees” are included in the list of ho...

Grand Marshal for 2017, Michael Dowling. By Irish Echo Staff Limerick native Michael Dowling is the Grand Marshal for the 2017 New York St. Patrick...

Kaine and Pence in their vice presidential debate Tuesday night By Ray O’Hanlon With just about a month to go before the presidential election, the...

Aisling Irish Center Executive Director, Orla Kelleher, and Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan. By Patrice Brady Whether you are just of the p...

Jamie Dornan in “Siege of Jadotville.” By Ray O’Hanlon It was filed away, brushed under the carpet and largely forgotten. But Jadotville refused to...

The surviving 1929 Irish Echo By Irish Echo Staff For years, indeed decades, the precise date of the first issue of the Irish Echo was a mystery. T...

Gerry Adams By Anthony Neeson Gerry Adams is suing the BBC for libel on the back of an allegation made in last week’s Spotlight program on IRA spie...

Pope John Paul II in Ireland. By Ray O’Hanlon One of the basic skills for any half decent news reporter is to be able to count the number of people...

Chief Michael Fahy. FDNY photo. By Ray O’Hanlon New York City has last one of its bravest. FDNY Battalion Chief, Michael Fahy, died Tuesday after b...

Denis Donaldson. By Anthony Neeson The family of Denis Donaldson, who was shot dead in a County Donegal cottage in 2006 after being outed as a Brit...

Rory McIlroy By Irish Echo Staff On the day that Arnold Palmer died, Rory McIlroy seemed possessed by the spirit of golf’s first truly popular hero...