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The Narrow Water bridge linking Northern Ireland and the Republic has been given the go ahead after securing €17.4 million from the European Union....

They might come across as besuited beancounters but members of the "Troika" overseeing Ireland's bailout are concerned about the most needy in Iris...

Government Ministers and TDs will feel the wrath of constituents during their half-term holiday this week, as anger intensifies over the death by a...

The most telling message of the Romney campaign has been to demonstrate the failure of the Obama administration to deliver on the vague but great a...

As is the case every four years, Irish Americans find themselves facing a difficult decision on election day, November 6. Once again, there are two...

America is at a crossroads, and this election will decide whether the American government will take control its budget, create the opportunities fo...

The Irish Echo office is located in Lower Manhattan and has been without power since Hurricane Sandy struck on Monday. We hope to have the office o...

"A grand affair." That's how Dan Murphy described the final commissioning of the U.S. Navy ship named after his hero son. The USS Michael Murphy is...

Galway fiddler Larry Reynolds, widely credited for keeping Irish traditional music vibrant in greater Boston over the past sixty years, died last W...

By Frieda Klotz Wearing jeans and a white aertex t-shirt with the FAI logo, Alisha Jordan looked a picture of health on a recent afternoon in the B...

By Ray O'Hanlon A fundraiser in support of the upcoming "Famine Tribunal" at Fordham Law School is set for this coming Saturday, September 29, at H...

By Ray O'Hanlon Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore and tourism minister Leo Varadkar are in New York this week to formally launch "The Gathering," the year-lon...