'Ever surprising, compelling' stories from Chicago
Margaret never took to being called “Marge,” hating, she says, “Americans’ lazy habit of ‘nicknames.’” Nor did she much like her U.S.-born husband’...
November 20, 2025
by Peter McDermott
The Sheriff was feared, respected
The most respected and significant person of my boyhood in Mountmellick, Co. Laois, was E. J. Breen, who taught in the Boys’ National School. He wa...
November 20, 2025
by Tom Phelan
News
Prague Bound
Pic of Day: Republic of Ireland manager Heimir Hallgrímsson (right) and FAI communications manager Kieran Crowley after the draw that will see Irel...
November 20, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
News
GOAL Returns to Ethiopia
The sports-based international aid agency GOAL, by way of its U.S. affiliate GOAL USA, is finding its way back to Ethiopia this coming weekend. GOA...
November 20, 2025
by Ray O'Hanlon
News
Lit Up for a Cure
Pic of Day: The Custom House in Dublin joined iconic landmarks around the world in lighting up in teal for World Cervical Cancer Elimination Day. P...
November 19, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
News
Project Children's New Home in Monaghan
As part of the celebration for its 50th anniversary Project Children has a new home in County Monaghan where its grand story will be on permanent d...
November 19, 2025
by Veronica Corr
Through history's lens
Richard Drew of the Pasadena Star-News was the youngest and least experienced of the four working photographers present when Robert Kennedy was sho...
November 19, 2025
by Peter McDermott
O'Rourke faces fellow rising star
In his sixth fight in New York since 2022, Ryan O’Rourke, aka “The Silent Assassin,” puts his unblemished record on the line against fellow undefea...
November 19, 2025
by Jay Mwamba
Opinion
Alive Alive-Oh
They say that a week is a long time in politics. Well it can be an eternity in sports. Just one week ago the Irish soccer team was contemplating an...
November 19, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
Determined Ballygunner blitz holders Sarsfield in Munster
Ballygunner 4-18; Sarsfields 2-17 Warning to the rest - Ballygunner are back firing on all cylinders and following last year’s slip-up in Munster, ...
November 18, 2025
by P.J. Cunningham
Miller study takes issue with showband critiques
“Public Warned Not To Attend Illegal Dance This Weekend,” a Leitrim Observer’s recent article’s headline read. It was in reference to a thing calle...
November 18, 2025
by Daniel Neely
News
Project Children's Permanent Home
Pic of Day; Project Children co-founder Denis Mulcahy is pictured at the recent opening of the permanent Project Children exhibit in Monaghan Town....
November 18, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
News
Mr. Donohoe Comes to Washington
Irish Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe is to step down from his post and will take up a position at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. Donohoe's mo...
November 18, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
Mack the knife butchers Aussies
Ireland 46; Australia 19 Ireland Scorers - Tries: M Hansen 3 tries, C Doris, R Baird and R Henshaw 1 try each; S Prendergast 2 cons, 1 drop goal; J...
November 17, 2025
by P.J. Cunningham
Parrott adds Budapest hat-trick to brace vs. Portugal in Dublin
USA here we come? There was a joke online on Sunday morning saying, ‘‘If Ireland can send a Turkey to the Eurovision surely, we can send a Parrott ...
November 17, 2025
by Sean Creedon