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Al Smith IV leads bands, marching units By Ray O'Hanlon It was a parade full of the joyful and the poignant. It was also a parade of two meteorolog...

Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has said the death threat he has received from dissident republicans won't silence him. Mr. McGuinness reve...

by Ray O'Hanlon Cardinal Timothy Dolan may or may not be back in New York from Rome by Saturday, but if he is not, Cardinal Edward Egan will be on ...

By Ray O'Hanlon This is a story about a ring that traveled full circle. And it's journey took about as long as a Tolkien tale - 64 years to be prec...

By Irish Echo Staff In 1845, Frederick Douglass, then an escaped slave from Maryland living in Massachusetts, traveled to Ireland and Britain, in p...

By Sean Lehane An American man accused of murdering a County Wexford woman in Japan last year has said he had no reason to kill her. Nicola Furlong...

By Ray O'Hanlon Just when you thought it was safe to don your Aran knits. T-shirts and other clothing items depicting St. Patrick's Day as an excus...

By Irish Echo Staff The Eastchester Irish American Social Club is readying for the Westchester County community's 9th annual St. Patrick's Day Para...

By Irish Echo Staff John Deasy and Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore "enjoyed a frank exchange in the Dáil" last week on the issue of the undocumented Irish i...

Cardinals O'Malley and Dolan seen as papal contenders By Jim Smith BOSTON --- It might end up being Red Sox versus Yankees - in the conclave. The n...

Bayonne's mayor, Mark A. Smith, is planning to turn the New Jersey city green to mark St. Patrick's Day. Three weeks of celebration kick off this S...

By Sean Lehane The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has said it is confident in its meat testing after a supermarket chain appeared to cast doubt o...