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A Sad Duty
President Catherine Connolly attended the funeral at the Church of the Nativity of Our Lady in Ardee, County Louth of Dylan Commins, one of five yo...
November 21, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
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Sentence Confirmed for Killing of Sarah McNally
A Queens, New York man has been sentenced to 24 years for the killing of Longford woman Sarah McNally. The formal sentence was handed down Friday w...
November 21, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
Be Grateful for Gratins and Other Tasty Sides
As Thanksgiving approaches, most cooks rely on the tried-and-true recipes they’ve been serving for decades. Roast turkey goes without saying, but t...
November 21, 2025
by Margaret M. Johnson
New Cheltenham role for former champ Blackmore
She used to called the Queen of Cheltenham, now Rachael Blackmore is going back to Prestbury Park to help attract more female punters to the famous...
November 21, 2025
by Sean Creedon
'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
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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