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By Peter McDermott Trinity College Professor Dan Bradley used to think of medieval Ireland as a rather sedate place, something like the 1950s. “In ...

By Peter McDermott Former courts reporter Guy Sterling is normally a quiet-spoken man. But get him onto the topic of Justice William J. Brennan Jr....

By Ray O'Hanlon "I think we're in a good place right now, the best place in a few years." Bruce Morrison was finishing up on a positive note on a n...

By Ray O'Hanlon With Senate majority leader Harry Reid promising immediate action on comprehensive immigration reform, a more promising backdrop th...

By Peter McDermott A few years ago, Joe Long got an email that piqued his interest and would eventually make his schedule a lot busier. It was an a...

By Irish Echo Staff A documentary on the memories and reflections of Irish immigrants in New York is in line for a possible New York Emmy award thi...

Northern Ireland’s first minister is facing calls to step aside, after a BBC report about a property deal near his Belfast home. The calls were mad...

BOSTON - Lawyers for the teenagers accused of stalking and bullying Phoebe Prince for weeks before her suicide in January appeared in court Tuesday...

Quinn Insurance company staff have staged marches in Dublin and Cavan to highlight job fears among the 2,800 workers after the Financial Regulator’...

There’s no place like a home away from home, especially if you are being pursued by the media. But the media, Irish version, has caught up with for...

While Catholic Church leaders have been on the defensive in recent weeks as a result of the pedophile scandal, the Archbishop of Dublin has emerged...

The Mitchell Scholarship program and its sponsoring organization, the US-Ireland Alliance, was this week defending the pledge of Ireland’s politica...