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
'Rian' is a truly compelling album
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope everyone reading this has their holiday preparation in line and is gearing up for a lovely, relaxed time with frie...
December 22, 2025
by Daniel Neely
Culture
BOOKS: From hawking penknives on streets of Manhattan to selling its most luxurious condos
Excerpt from Memoirs of a Watch Salesman: A New York Real Estate Story Everyone’s got a story. This is mine — a true rags-to-riches story that star...
December 22, 2025
by Joseph Aquino
Loughrea's victory dented by late dismissal of young star
Loughrea (Galway) 2-22; Slaughtneil (Derry) 0-15 Loughrea may have fallen at this stage to eventual All Ireland champs Na Fianna of Dublin in last ...
December 22, 2025
by P.J. Cunningham
News
Roll in the Barrel
Pic of Day: A Dublin barman rolls in a barrel of Guinness into the Old Stand Pub to keep customers happy over the festive season. Photo by Eamonn F...
December 22, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
News
Hibernians Condemn Diversity Visa Suspension
The Ancient Order of Hibernians has expressed its concern over the suspension of the DV1 Diversity Visa program, this after a man - a Portuguese na...
December 22, 2025
by Ray O'Hanlon
Ballygunner's 2nd-half showing blows away St. Martin's in semi
Ballygunner (Waterford) 0-19; St Martin’s (Wexford) 0-10 More so than ever at this time of the year, it is often a case of the old dog for the hard...
December 22, 2025
by P.J. Cunningham