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"I came to the U.S. for a visit back in the early '80s. The Irish economy was bad and a lot of my mates were already gone from Ireland," O'Malley r...

Although Munster decided to rest several of their Ireland internationals including Paul O'Connell, Ronan O'Gara, Donncha O'Callaghan, Tomas O'Leary...

Ten years after Murphy's radical innovation changed the look of the hurling field forever, the National Hockey League (NHL) made those same helmets...

"I really tried to think of every excuse I could not to do it because I thought he needed somebody else. I think I gave him a few names, actually,"...

By a wide margin, Noel Hill and Tony MacMahon's "I gNoc na Grai" ("In Knocknagree") finished as the top Irish traditional album of the decade. Ther...

If pure, unabashed silliness were in extremely short supply on New York stages, "Flanagan's Wake," arriving in the city after a lengthy run in Chic...

"I'm looking forward to going," President Obama told the Echo in casual remarks at a recent holiday party at the White House. U.S. embassy staff in...

But though Annie's descendants believed that there were actual photographs of Annie in existence, searches did not turn up any as the Annie story r...

McCann, whose literary star has been steadily rising in recent years, achieved a significant breakthrough in 2009 when the won the National Book Aw...

"America is simultaneously the most professedly Christian of the developed nations and the least Christian in its behavior," he wrote in the piece ...

But the third annual Ancient Order of Hibernians "Polar Plunge" in Sea Bright, New Jersey, will have a distinctly icy element to it given recent we...

Speaking publicly on Monday afternoon for the first time since a television station announced on St Stephen's Day that he had been diagnosed with p...