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Too Few
Pic of Day: Just released Irish government State Papers reveal that the Garda reserve numbers present at Landsdowne Road for the February, 1995 soc...
December 29, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
News
Support Program Allocated €16.4 million in '25
Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Helen McEntee, and Minister of State for International Development and Diaspora, Neale Richmond, have...
December 29, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
Blow for Wexford as O'Connor takes time out to travel
Wexford hurling got a massive boost thanks to the exploits of St Martin’s in winning this year’s Leinster senior club hurling championship. However...
December 29, 2025
by P.J. Cunningham
Leinster make it 6 wins in row thanks to heroic defense
Leinster 13; Munster 8 Scorers Leinster: Tries: Josh van der Flier Cons: Harry Byrne Pens: Harry Byrne (2) Munster: Tries: Dan Kelly Pens: Jack Cro...
December 29, 2025
by P.J. Cunningham
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Gerry Adams: For Gazans, the Nativity scene is a truly horrific one
THE story of Christmas and the birth of Jesus in a stable, as Mary and Joseph sought shelter, is known by billions around the world – even by those...
December 29, 2025
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
Hunkering Down For Christmas
Another Christmas, another time of celebration that is in reality for all too many a time of separation. There are photos taken at Dublin Airport o...
December 29, 2025
by Leader Column
SPORTS REVIEW OF 2025: Unlikely wins spark WC hope
Gaelic football and hurling are great games, but the players have no international outlet to really test themselves. Rugby is international and we ...
December 24, 2025
by Sean Creedon
Focus on memories of Christmas past
Resplendent in a glittering jacket of red & green sequins, Mark William Butler, playwright, composer and former Irish American Writers & Artists Bo...
December 24, 2025
by Maureen Hossbacher
County Limerick-born priest Kelly is a hero to Brooklyn immigrants
Msgr. James Kelly, the 87-year-old pastor emeritus of St. Brigid’s Parish in Bushwick, Brooklyn, got some long overdue attention in 2025. In May, S...
December 24, 2025
by Geoffrey Cobb
An echo in the chancel
I was 12 years old but still I knew I knew something more than the old ones when Father Coyne made me scour the pews, to strafe for wayward souls a...
December 24, 2025
by Anthony C. Murphy
News
President Connolly Urges a Christmas Reflection
President Catherine Connolly has used her first Christmas message to urge the Irish people to reflect on the values that truly matter and respect e...
December 24, 2025
by Anthony Neeson
News
Home for the Holidays
Pic of Day: It's Christmas and family and friends are traveling and reuniting for the holiday. This photo, a moment of joy, was taken at Dublin Air...
December 23, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
McMillan happy with Munster resolve but not performance level
Munster 26; Ospreys 10 This is a strange sort of Munster outfit we are observing these days but ultimately they have learned how to win against the...
December 23, 2025
by P.J. Cunningham
A literary evening
Christmas was an important theme at Nunu Fine Art, 381 Broome St, New York City, last Wednesday for an “evening of literature, laughter and a livel...
December 23, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
News
Holiday Greetings to One and All
Dear Friends, A Chairde, In the months before I moved to New York in August, many of my predecessors as Consul General had the same message for me:...
December 22, 2025
by Consul General Gerald Angley