Stand-up star
“I’ll just get your mother, love.” The father in Deirdre O’Kane’s stand-up routines is affectionately remembered. But there are silences as he trie...
April 18, 2024
by Peter McDermott
News
In Loving Memory
Photo of the Day: A woman at the gathering of relatives of victims of the 1981 Stardust fire at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin today. RollingN...
April 18, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
News
Finally, Some Justice for Stardust Families
The jury in the Stardust inquests today returned a verdict of unlawful killing in the cases of each of the 48 young people who died in the fire at ...
April 18, 2024
by Ray O'Hanlon
Opinion
KIRWAN: Remembering The King of Second Avenue
They don’t make them like Steve Duggan anymore. The question is – did they ever? The Monsignor was like many immigrants – neither here nor there. H...
April 18, 2024
by Larry Kirwan
Plucky Irish trio out of luck on fight night at the Garden
On a bad night for the Irish trio in the finals, Sean O’Bradaigh suffered a third-round stoppage to nemesis Adrian Frometa in his bid for MSG Boxin...
April 17, 2024
by Jay Mwamba
News
DiNapoli Hosts GFA Commemoration Event
Pic of Day: New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapioli, pictured right, hosted an event commemorating the Good Friday Agreement Tuesday evening at th...
April 17, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
Community Features & Events
Battle of Buffalo as People's Choice Award Votes Flow In
Highlight of the Heroes of Irish America Awards in Buffalo, NY, next week will be the presentation of the People's Choice Award — with the proud wi...
April 17, 2024
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
Camogie Congress says 'no' to shorts again
There was much disappointment among Tipperary and British delegates that their motions to replace the traditional Camogie skorts with shorts were d...
April 17, 2024
by Sean Creedon
True story is first-rate drama
If you have never heard of the Post Office scandal in the UK where 900 innocent UK Post Office employees were pursued and prosecuted (from 1999 to ...
April 17, 2024
by Seamus Scanlon
Community Features & Events
Stage & Screen Symposium at AIHS To Focus on Post-Conflict Works
Academics, actors and playwrights are to share the stage at a one-day symposium in New York on post-conflict theatre and film in the North of Irela...
April 17, 2024
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
Opinion
EDITORIAL: In A Russian Trance
Some who should know better should take a lesson from the determined group of people who have maintained a permanent picket outside the Russian Emb...
April 17, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
Learning to love the system
There were a couple of silver linings for Ross Barkan on election night in 2018. He was with his supporters, for one. “That was definitely great. I...
April 16, 2024
by Peter McDermott
13-a-side proves a good idea
Rangers 2-15 Donegal 3-11 The local New York GAA’s schedule got underway this weekend at Gaelic Park. This was in sharp contrast to the previous we...
April 16, 2024
by Frank Brady
Pep's perfect weekend
It was a game that the Burnley goalkeeper will want to erase from the memory, but one that Cork-born teenager Mark O’Mahony will always remember. B...
April 16, 2024
by Sean Creedon
News
All Together Now
Pic of Day: British Co-Chair and head of the UK Parliament delegation, Dame Karen Bradley with Irish Co-Chair Brendan Smith at the 66th plenary of ...
April 16, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff