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1 week ago | 
irishecho.com | Daniel Neely |Frank Brady |Anthony Neeson
Ladies of the Dance News April 15, 2025 by Irish Echo Staff Pic of Day: Competitors at the 2025 World Irish Dance Championships (Oireachtas Rince na Cruinne), taking place at the Dublin Convention Centre from April 13–20. Over 4,000 competitors from across the globe will compete in more than 50 events. Photo by Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie.
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1 week ago | 
irishecho.com | Daniel Neely |Frank Brady |Anthony Neeson
A decision on British government funding for the new Casement Park is expected in June.
A delegation from Sinn Féin, including party leader Mary Lou McDonald TD, deputy leader Michelle O’Neill MLA, and North Belfast MP John Finucane met in Belfast with the British Secretary of State, Hilary Benn on Monday, where the issue of British government funding for Casement Park was raised.
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1 week ago | 
irishecho.com | Anthony Neeson |P.J. Cunningham |Frank Brady
Donegal 4-18 Cork 0-12
The local GAA schedule got under way last Sunday at Gaelic Park. The senior match between Cavan and Sligo was cancelled due to Manhattan University having to play a rescheduled softball game. Meanwhile the first game in the senior football league pitted Donegal against Cork. This was also the first occasion for the new rules to be applied in a local competition. Thus the 13-a-side format coupled with the rule changes confluenced to produce a fast-flowing encounter.
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3 weeks ago | 
irishecho.com | Brian McCabe |Frank Brady
President Trump unveiled his tariff sheet outside the White House Wednesday evening.
And it included 20 percent tariffs aimed at the European Union, Ireland included.
There was no immediate imposition of tariffs on pharmaceutical products, a matter of some relief to the Irish government.
But such tariffs are expected down the road.
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3 weeks ago | 
irishecho.com | Brian McCabe |Frank Brady |Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
Pic of Day: But April Flowers likely for a final time. Pictured is Elizabeth Street Garden in Lower Manhattan on April 1. The city of New York is not fooling when it says it intends to close the garden and replace most of its single acre with affordable housing. Supporters point to a number of alternative sites for such housing. The garden, according to an online posting, is an "L-shaped space located on Elizabeth Street in the Nolita neighborhood, between Prince and Spring Streets.
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3 weeks ago | 
irishecho.com | Máirtín Ó Muilleoir |Sean McManus |Frank Brady
New York and Galway square off on Sunday at Gaelic Park in the first round of the Connacht Senior Football Championship. Initially this game was scheduled in 2020 but was postponed because of Covid. By any rational analysis this is a very daunting challenge for the Big Apple footballers, and definitely fits seamlessly into the David versus Goliath narrative.
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1 month ago | 
irishecho.com | P.J. Cunningham |Frank Brady
Since the new leadership assumed office under the stewardship of Sean Price, there has been plenty of action in boardrooms and meeting rooms dealing with the logistics of planning and scheduling for the upcoming season. The administrative headquarters of the GAA has moved from Broadway to McLean Avenue. Meanwhile the outdoor season of the New York GAA was in full swing on Saturday as about a dozen of true blue seasoned GAA warriors assembled for the annual cleanup of Gaelic Park and its environs.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
irishecho.com | Larry Kirwan |Gerry Adams |Frank Brady
Generally All-Star events are inundated with the paparazzi, sports scribes and a crew “of who’s who” in the sports world. Well, this weekend in St. BarnabasAuditorium, New York GAA folks will have the perfect opportunity to meet and greet some of Ireland’s greatest Gaelic Football and Hurling players. The cadre of Irish sports stars will be supported by some of the Big Apple’s finest home-grown talents. This will be a two evening show, Friday devoted to hurling and Saturday assigned to football.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
irishecho.com | Jay Mwamba |Frank Brady
Stauntons at the White House News October 02, 2024 by Irish Echo Staff Photo of the Day: Since the death of their son Rory from Sepsis twelve years ago Ciaran and Orlaith Staunton have waged an extraordinary campaign to raise awareness of this illness in New York and across the United States. The Stauntons were recently invited to the White House Healthcare Safety Forum and are pictured outside the presidential residence with their daughter Kathleen.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
irishecho.com | Frank Brady |P.J. Cunningham |Jay Mwamba
Sean O'Bradaigh defied the crunching power of Brooklyn banger Carderon Deleon in their three-round SBC Elite 176 pound title match, but came up short on points at the Melrose Ballroom in Queens last Thursday.
O'Bradaigh, ranked #8 nationally at light heavyweight, was making his second bid for the SBC belt. He lost on points to previous champion Adrian Frometa last January. The veteran Frometa in turn was knocked out by the hard hitting 19-year-old DeLeon this June.
