3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (592+ words) Wednesday, April 1st, 2026 It didn't enter the conversation over the shamrock in the Oval Office on Saint Patrick's Day but Ireland is heading down a path that will see the neutral Republic take significant steps towards beefing up its military capabilities…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (446+ words) Tuesday, March 24th, 2026 For and Against a United Ireland. By Fiontan O'Toole and Sam McBride. Blackwell's." For most readers of The Irish Echo, the prospect of a united Ireland often feels like an approaching freight train: powerful and inevitable. A partnership…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (847+ words) Tuesday, March 17th, 2026 This year is particularly special. As the U.S. marks its 250th anniversary, we are proud in Ireland to have been a part of that story: from the man from county Kilkenny who designed the White House (James Hoban), to the…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (316+ words) Tuesday, March 10th, 2026 Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Helen McEntee, has launched what is being termed a new Strategy for the Reconciliation Fund (2026-29) in Belfast." The Reconciliation Fund awards, said a Department of Foreign Affairs release, grants to community…...

4+ week, 22+ hour ago  (333+ words) Friday, March 6th, 2026 If the list of possible conversation pieces in the Oval Office on Saint Patrick's Day was already long it has now grown longer still. Iran will loom large over the bowl of shamrock. And Ireland's position has been…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (23+ words) Ireland Supporting Ukraine'Irish Echo Newspaper Wednesday, February 25th, 2026 February 24, 2026 By P.J. Cunningham February 24, 2026 By Irish Echo Staff...

2+ mon, 11+ hour ago  (132+ words) Thursday, February 5th, 2026 Pic of Day: President Catherine Connolly is today beginning a three-day official visit to Northern Ireland. The visit, the first official visit of President Connolly's presidency, fulfills a commitment made in her inauguration address that her first official…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (183+ words) Saturday, January 10th, 2026 Professor Marion Casey of New York University is the Irish Echo's Irish American of the Year for 2026. Professor Casey succeeds Siobhan Dennehy, Executive Director of the Emerald Isle Immigration Center and a tireless'frontline advocate for Irish immigrants in…...

4+ mon, 3+ day ago  (355+ words) Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025 Taoiseach Miche'l Martin has said that Ireland has a close and warm relationship with Ukraine. Mattin was speaking ahead of the visit by Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelenskyy to Ireland on Tuesday " the first official visit to Ireland by…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (379+ words) Friday, September 26th, 2025 RT" will not take part in next year's Eurovision Song Contest if Israel participates in the competition. There are also doubts over whether Slovenia, Holland and Spain will take part if Israel is included. In a statement RT…...