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The charity group SightSavers International held its annual general meeting recently in New York with Irish Consul General Noel Kilkenny delivering...

A 46-year-old man has been charged after four people, including a garda sergeant, were stabbed outside a pub in County Donegal. John Boyle (46), fr...

He created a headline of his own by making the century. Veteran Belfast journalist James Kelly has died aged 100. Kelly, from the Falls Road, was a...

Federal authorities have broadened their demands for the contents of oral history testimonies dealing with the Troubles in Northern Ireland and giv...

Ireland’s captain and all-time top goal-scorer Robbie Keane is headed for California after signing a two-year contract Monday for Major League Socc...

Special to the Irish Echo Baltimore, West Cork --- Amid scenes of relief and jubilation, the crew of a 100-foot American registered sailboat, "Ramb...

A family whose teenage daughter was unable to travel to London for a liver transplant last month, this due to an apparent breakdown in communicatio...

President Barack Obama and Congress are relieved to be done with the recent debt ceiling increase crisis, but the next battle over spending is just...

Brooklyn's Irish will this weekend remember the heroics of the "Maryland 400" at the 1776 Battle of Brooklyn. A series of commemorative events are ...

A 22-year-old Irishman is facing a charge of rape in a New York court. Damien McGuinness, who lives in Queens and works as a barman in Manhattan, w...

Seriously ill republican prisoner Brendan Lillis has been transferred from jail to a hospital in Belfast. Lillis was moved to Belfast's City Hospit...

Court proceedings against the British government over the policy of internment in the North of Ireland are set to get underway within a week. In th...