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“For a literary nation priding itself on such manuscript gems as the Book of Kells and the Annals of the Four Masters,” wrote leading genealogist S...

[caption id="attachment_68939" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Rory McIlroy's triumph in June."][/caption] JANUARY It was not a quiet open...

Last Friday on the eve of his 70th birthday, Manchester United’s Scottish-born manager Alex Ferguson said he would carry on for another three years...

[caption id="attachment_68794" align="aligncenter" width="600"] An escalating legal battle is this week swirling around Burns Library, home of the ...

[caption id="attachment_68896" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Journalist and author Pete Hamill is the Echo's Irish American of the Year....

[caption id="attachment_68892" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Queen Elizabeth spoke of her visit earlier this year to the Garden of Remem...

[caption id="attachment_68887" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="O'Connor performing in September."][/caption] Sinead O'Connor is undercutti...

BOSTON --- The Suffolk County District Attorney's Office has charged a Dorchester teen with the murder of Aran Islands native Ciaran O Conghaile, w...

Attorney John O'Hara has been at this point before. The year is almost over and he is seeking a pardon from the sitting governor of New York for hi...

[caption id="attachment_68878" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Culture Minister Carál Ní Chuilín."][/caption] There might be grumbling fro...

[caption id="attachment_68874" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Gerry Kelly."][/caption] A furious row is brewing over policing in Northern...