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Fine Gael MEP Gay Mitchell will carry his party's flag into the upcoming Irish presidential election. Mitchell outpolled fellow European parliament...

Four years ago this month I wrote a column concerning Social Security and its essential place in the fabric of American society. Remember those hea...

Now is the summer of our discontent made better by a few good books. Over the course of a year, quite a few books find themselves into the Echo off...

BOSTON - Legendary mobster James "Whitey" Bulger pleaded not guilty to a 32-count indictment, which included 19 murders, during his arraignment las...

By Irish Echo Staff U2 have famously lived along the coastline of South County Dublin but lately the band's lead guitarist, Dave Evans, better know...

CORK LOCALS OBJECT TO WIND FARM PLANS Communities in Inchigeela and neighboring Réidh na nDoirí are to fight against a wind farm proposal - which, ...

The groundskeeper can point you in the right direction in the cemetery. The librarian can hook up the microfilm machine and find the files for you....

A long-awaited report into the handling of clerical child sex abuse allegations in a diocese in Cork is due to be made public within weeks. Justice...

Senator Martin McAleese, husband of President McAleese, is to head an investigation into the Irish state's role in alleged abuse in the infamous Ma...

The demise of the London Sunday tabloid, The News of the World, will have a direct effect on the Irish newspaper market where Irish versions of Bri...

The Sellafield nuclear plant, which sits on the coast of Cumbria on the far side of the Irish Sea, but in reality not very far from Ireland in nucl...

The numbers are in and according to the 2011 census the population of the Republic of Ireland now stands at 4,581,269. This is a rise of 341,421 ov...