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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...

By Ray O'Hanlon rohanlon@irishecho.com Dublin --- It was a few days before Christmas and thoughts of "The Gathering" were stirring in the mind of N...

Belfast City Council votes to lower Union Flag By Anthony Neeson aneeson@irishecho.com Rioting loyalists stormed the courtyard of Belfast City Hall...

By Irish Echo Staff Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is to visit Belfast as well as Dublin this week. Secretary Clinton will travel to Belfast on...

The first one was such a success that organizers behind the Irish Day of Action for Sandy relief, or "Meitheal," are undertaking a second one on De...

By Frieda Klotz letters@irishecho.com For seven years, Mary Philbin has been battling the side effects of illness. Now she has an opportunity to re...

By Larry Kirwan In the light of the death, disaster and loss of property that accompanied the recent super storm, we must face the reality that glo...

by Frieda Klotz Anyone who grew up in Ireland or visited it during all but the very final years of the twentieth century might hesitate to associat...

Frank Durkan got his way in more than one New York court case. Now he has his way with New York's streetscape. The late attorney, who championed in...

A week prior to the Irish Day of Action Lansdowne Bhoys FC organized players and club members to travel to the Rockaways and Breezy Point to take p...