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By Ray O'Hanlon Mom was home, Mairead was out enjoying the summer. Dad was out in his truck. It was a happy, normal day in the life of a family. Th...

By Ray O'Hanlon There were emotional scenes at Kennedy Airport Tuesday when Pearl River's Joe Byrne was reunited with his wife and daughter, this a...

By Ray O'Hanlon Forget the World Cup. Those guys got paid no matter what the result. But no amount of quarters in his piggy bank will convince Cona...

By Peter McDermott Hurling, Gaelic football, golf, soccer, rugby...lacrosse? If you think that the famous Native American game isn't on the Irish s...

By Ray O'Hanlon rohanlon@rishecho.com Get ready for the pitter patter. No, strike that. Get ready for the thunder of shiny new cleats, and the clas...

By Peter McDermott Thomas E. Kennedy decided at age 17 that when he was older he should be a writer. Now at 66, with 11 published novels to his nam...

By Ray O'Hanlon With unemployment in Ireland at record levels and the traditional emigration route to America largely blocked, there was an added s...

By Peter McDermott Vote for Sean Coffey - he knows where the bodies are buried. That's part of the Bronx-born candidate's pitch in the crowded fiel...

By Ray O'Hanlon The Ancient Order of Hibernians has voted to maintain its present course with national president Seamus Boyle again at the helm. Bo...

By Ray O'Hanlon The Ancient Order of Hibernians, convening in Cincinnati, Ohio, this week for their 95th Biennial National Convention, will be elec...

By Ray O'Hanlon Taoiseach Brian Cowen will be in the U.S. next week for a three day visit that will include stops in New York and Atlanta. Cowen, w...

By Ray O'Hanlon Mary Hanafin has a three-card portfolio. But tourism was firmly on top of her deck this week during a two-and-a-half day stay in Ne...