Culture
Hitting a high note on World Down Syndrome Day
Derry-based songwriter Colm Warren has re-emerged with a new single and video aiming to speak up for families living with Down syndrome. Warren’s n...
March 20, 2026
by Anthony Neeson
Welcome to Spring!
Astronomical spring officially begins on Friday at 10:46 AM eastern time (meteorological spring began on March 1). The spring equinox marks the mom...
March 20, 2026
by Irish Echo Staff
Squad named for Prague
Republic of Ireland manager Heimir Hallgrimsson named his squad for the World Cup play-off semi-final against Czechia in Prague on next Thursday, M...
March 20, 2026
by Irish Echo Staff
News
Three Mikes and a Matt
Pic of Day: Taoiseach Micheál Martin with Congressman Mike Lawler and renowned Irish dancers Michael and Matthew Gardiner at Capitol Hill during St...
March 20, 2026
by Irish Echo Staff
News
London civil trial against Gerry Adams withdrawn
THE civil trial in London against former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has been withdrawn. A lawyer for the claimants said on Friday that proceed...
March 20, 2026
by Anthony Neeson
News
Maxine Linehan's 'Sunday Bloody Sunday'
Pic of Day: Maxine Linehan, the Newry-born and U.S.-based singer has just released what is being described as her "soul-bearing, emotionally-charge...
March 19, 2026
by Irish Echo Staff
News
Biden Reminds Americans of Immigrant Heritage
President Joe Biden wasn't at home in Delaware. He was in Boston. It was Saint Patrick's Day and he was talking up heritage, the bonds between Amer...
March 19, 2026
by Ray O'Hanlon
Relive trad craic on high seas!
It seems that special things happen every March as the wave of the St. Patrick Day season crashes over us. One of them is that this year’s TG4’s pr...
March 19, 2026
by Daniel Neely
Opinion
KIRWAN: Same Saint But Very Different Towns
When I was a boy in Ireland, Saint Patrick’s Day was one of the worst days of the year. The pubs were closed and you could almost touch the gloom o...
March 19, 2026
by Larry Kirwan
Identity politics as a laughing matter
“Ulster American” is another triumph by the Irish Rep. The play comes at you from field left. We are waiting for fictional playwright Ruth Davenpor...
March 18, 2026
by Orla O'Sullivan
News
This Bowl's For You
Pic of Day: Taoiseach Micheál Martin presented an Irish-made crystal bowl containing fresh shamrock to President Trump at the White House Tuesday. ...
March 18, 2026
by Irish Echo Staff
News
Trump Floats North-South 'Merger' as he Welcomes Unionist leader to Capitol Hill
Red-faced Northern Ireland deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly was left speechless on Capitol Hill on St. Patrick's Day when President Trump...
March 18, 2026
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Of War And War's Alarms
The line above is from "Politics" by William Butler Yeats. It's a short poem that sets the writer's priorities straight. Forget politics and forget...
March 18, 2026
by Leader Column
Currier & Ives cultivated Irish-American market
Currier & Ives sold fantasy and it sold reality. And that’s generally the approach the lithographic company took to Ireland. Kevin O’Rourke has wri...
March 17, 2026
by Peter McDermott
The Old Print Shop's favorite theme is New York itself
When traveling salesman Harry Shaw Newman stepped into the Old Print Shop at 150 Lexington Ave. for the first time, he couldn’t have known it was t...
March 17, 2026
by Peter McDermott