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Folks, some truly exciting news to announce in the world of traditional music! This past week, the record label Jazzology released “World Recording...

Pic of Day: Don't try this at home - or anywhere for that matter. Photo shows a display by the Wing Walkers Team at the Bank Holiday weekend's Bray...

Thousands of people have attended a public wake for singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, who died last Wednesday, aged 56. Hansard died after a motorcyc...

MY friend and comrade Gerry Kelly has announced his decision not to stand in the Assembly election next May. That does not mean that he will no lon...

KEEP ON TRUCKING: A fact-finding delegation from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, led by President Sean O'Brien, was in Belfast this mor...

The Dublin Horse Show gets under way on Wednesday and there will be great celebrations on Friday as it will be the 100th anniversary of the first-e...

The 20th annual Iowa Irish Fest returns to downtown Waterloo’s Lincoln Park beginning Friday, July 31 and running through August 2, bringing with i...

Pic of Day: There was a memorial musical get-together in Dublin honoring Glen Hansard. Performers shared songs and memories of the Oscar-winning mu...

Not that God takes sides. Absolutely not. But the church might. The curse that supposedly haunted Mayo football for 75 years was, it was believed, ...

Bohemians fought Ballkani of Kosovo to an aggregate 4-4 over 210 minutes in their Conference League 2nd qualifying game. But in the 2nd leg’s penal...

For a guy who gets sick on the Strangford ferry, I took to the inaugural Irish Echo Maritime Awards in New York this past April like a duck to wate...

My late grandfather Frank Houlihan was an Iron Worker who fell to his death while working on a building in 1916, leaving behind my dad, (who was 12...

Sunday next is a big day for the women players of Gaelic football. After playing championship games before small attendances all over the country t...

Pic of Day: Tom McGrath with Bill Burniston, Strength Coach for the Carolina Hurricanes, and the formidable Stanley Cup which recently made an appe...

The Ring of Kerry, the 110-mile coastal route (N70) around the Iveragh Peninsula, is one of the most popular driving routes in all of Ireland. Ther...