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Frank McCourt, in the wake of his success with "Angela's Ashes," felt that any Irish person who fails to jot down his or her story was beyond an ee...

By Irish Echo Staff letters@irishecho.com Against the backdrop of President's Obama's new term and the new Congress, the coalition of Irish-America...

By Terry Golway When most of us hear about political extremists, we immediately think of the Middle East or other areas of the world where fanatics...

Sandy aid from Chicago Lakefront to Jersey Shore By Ray O'Hanlon Congress might be reluctant to pony up for Sandy relief but, as has been evident i...

By Paul Ainsworth GARDAI are preparing for a loyalist rally in the center of Dublin linked to the ongoing row over the removal of the union flag fr...

By Anthony Neeson A talented Tyrone minor footballer has been charged with murdering his father at the weekend Aloysius Hackett, 60, a former chair...

By Larry Kirwan So, the Pecker Dunne finally bit the dust. Must have been one hell of an ailment that laid him low, for neither wind, rain, rough l...

By Anthony Neeson Over 100 people have been arrested and over 60 police officers injured since loyalists began their protest over the removal of th...

By Anthony Neeson An SDLP politician is the latest member of a political party in Northern Ireland to receive a bullet in the mail. A letter addres...

By Jim Smith BOSTON --- Edward M. Kennedy Jr. has announced that he will not be a candidate in the Massachusetts special election to fill the seat ...

Politicians have condemned the planting of a bomb under a policeman's car in Belfast. The viable device was placed under a serving officer's car in...

There are many individual gatherings in the year of The Gathering. Some of them are based on county allegiance and Leitrim is first out of the bloc...