News
Rain Finally
Pic of Day: Ireland needs rain and has been getting some the last couple of days. Pictured are gathering rain clouds over the Wicklow Gap. RollingN...
August 27, 2026
by Irish Echo Staff
News
Two Books From T.J. English
The first shall be the latest and the latest will accompany the first. T.J. English has been an American literary luminary for more than three deca...
August 27, 2026
by Ray O'Hanlon
Ireland's largest lake under threat
Lough Neagh is one of Ireland’s great natural wonders. Covering nearly 400 square kilometers, it is the largest freshwater lake in Ireland and Brit...
August 27, 2026
by Geoffrey Cobb
GAA big likes soccer friendlies
Following the success of the recent friendly at Croke Park between Manchester United and Leeds United, Croke Park stadium director Peter McKenna sa...
August 27, 2026
by Sean Creedon
Donovan takes risk 'to stay active'
Paddy “The Real Deal” Donovan, the International Boxing Federation’s ([BF] #1 welterweight contender, isn’t concerned about risking his mandatory c...
August 26, 2026
by Jay Mwamba
Huge health risks for unmasked
The New York Times’s Claire Brown wrote exactly one year ago: “As wildfire season starts earlier in California and climate change is leading to mor...
August 26, 2026
by Peter McDermott
Opinion
EDITORIAL: The Wilting Fields
It has been one of those summers in Ireland, the kind of season that people will be referring back to years from now. Many in Ireland still talk of...
August 26, 2026
by Leader Column
News
So Long Dolly
Photo of the Day: Country singer Dolly Parton, who has legions of fans in Ireland, has died at the age of 80. An icon of country music and also a s...
August 25, 2026
by Irish Echo Staff
News
Fergus is On The Road
Fergus Farrell is today somewhere in Pennsylvania. He began his marathon walk across America from the Brooklyn Bridge last Saturday, August 22. The...
August 25, 2026
by Irish Echo Staff
Events
North's integrated school advocates in visits to San Fran & Boston
Leaders of the Integrated Education movement in the North of Ireland will be in San Francisco and Boston next month to spread awareness of their wo...
August 25, 2026
by Anthony Neeson
Homepage
GERRY ADAMS: Forget the background noise and keep up the work
MONDAY’S Irish Times has an editorial dealing with the possibility of the collapse of the Northern Assembly at Stormont. This is the latest media-d...
August 25, 2026
by Gerry Adams
News
Carlow Funeral
Photo of the Day: The coffin of Jeremy O’Brien leaving the Church of the Holy Family in Askea, Carlow, followed by family and mourners after the fu...
August 24, 2026
by Irish Echo Staff
News
Hudson Valley Irish Fest Returns
The Hudson Valley Irish Fest will return for its 17th annual gathering on Saturday, September 19 in Peekskill, Westchester County, New York. The po...
August 24, 2026
by Irish Echo Staff
Searching for Ceramics in South Kerry
The directions to Fermoyle Pottery in Ballinskelligs, South Kerry, were vague at best. I read that it was “hidden up a narrow laneway just off the ...
August 24, 2026
by Margaret M. Johnson
Vallely's death a major loss
The world of traditional music was shaken this week with news of the passing of Eithne Vallely. A remarkable figure in Irish music, she was a music...
August 23, 2026
by Daniel Neely