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1 week ago | 
irishecho.com | Jay Mwamba |P.J. Cunningham
Community Features & Events Nassau County Emeralds gather for installation dinner, salute heroes May 28, 2025 By Irish Echo Staff New York's Bravest to fight Garda May 28, 2025 By Jay Mwamba May 28, 2025 By P.J. Cunningham
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1 week ago | 
irishecho.com | Jay Mwamba |P.J. Cunningham |Anthony Neeson
The sectarian attack on Catholic homes in Annalee Street in Belfast is a case of history repeating itself for one Belfast man. As Tony Neeson watched news reports of shocked and frightened families standing outside their homes in the newly-built street in North Belfast on Wednesday night, with windows boarded up after having been smashed by a gang of masked men, he was transported back 56 years to August 1969 when he and his young family fled the original Annalee Street.
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1 week ago | 
irishecho.com | P.J. Cunningham |Jay Mwamba
The next round of fisticuffs between Bobby McGuire’s Fire Department of New York [FDNY] squad and the Garda Siochana is scheduled for June 13 at St. Camillus Church, 99-15 Rockaway Beach Blvd in Rockaway, Queens.
The first fight in the ninth annual “Thrilla at Camilla,” an outdoor event, begins at 7:30 p.m. Gates open at 6:30 p.m.
Garda fighters on the night include Eoin O’Connor, Darragh Gilroy and Shauna Kearney, against some of the FDNY’s most experienced pugilists.
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1 week ago | 
pitchpublishing.co.uk | Jay Mwamba
Jay Mwamba is a New York-based writer and the Irish Echo's boxing and soccer correspondent. He covered the 1994 World Cup and has been on press row at numerous world-title fights. He's also written for the New York Daily News and previously worked as a sports reporter for the Zambia Daily Mail. He is a graduate of The City College of New York, where he earned an MA in comparative history. He's the author of the boxing novel Seconds Out!.
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2 weeks ago | 
irishecho.com | Jay Mwamba |Margaret Johnson
Pic of Day: The city of Waterford bills itself as the oldest in Ireland and this year will celebrate its 1111th birthday with a celebratory campaign to attract visitors. “Waterford is the birthplace of urban Ireland,” says Cllr. Jason Murphy, Mayor of Waterford City and County (pictured). “At 1111 years old, our city stands proudly as the oldest in the country.
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2 weeks ago | 
irishecho.com | Jay Mwamba |Margaret Johnson
The Irish American Heritage Museum’s Board of Directors has announced the appointment of Hayden-Grace Francis as the Albany, NY-based museum’s new Assistant Director.
Working closely with Executive Director Michael C. Clarke, Francis will help shape the Museum’s programming, operations and storytelling for new generations, said a release from the museum.
Added the release: "Francis brings a lifelong passion for Irish history, culture, and the arts.
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2 weeks ago | 
irishecho.com | Jay Mwamba
New York GAA is set to receive global coverage after signing a live-streaming deal with New Logical Sports, a major outlet for live-streaming amateur and semi-professional sports in the Northeastern United States. Under the deal, up to 67 matches at Gaelic Park will be available to fans globally on TV and mobile devices, courtesy of a new streaming platform known as New Logical Sports+, at https://plus.newlogicalsports.com.
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3 weeks ago | 
irishecho.com | Sean Creedon |Jay Mwamba
A Final Salute News May 16, 2025 by Irish Echo Staff Photo of the Day: Members of the Garda stand by as the hearse leaves the church after the funeral of Garda Kevin Flatley at St. Peter's and Paul's Church in Balbriggan, Dublin. The chief mourners were his wife, his daughters and his parents .The 49-year-old married father-of-two was knocked down and killed after he was struck by a motorcycle while operating a speed check on Sunday, May 11. Photo by Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie.
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3 weeks ago | 
irishecho.com | Sean Creedon |Jay Mwamba |Ray O'Hanlon
Yeats wrote about romantic Ireland being dead and gone and with O’Leary in the grave.
What would the great poet say about immigrant America?
We can only guess. But the idea of a grave springs to mind easily enough when the focus is on today’s United States and its relationship with people from other lands who want to make America their new home.
It also springs to mind with regard to people from other lands already here and trying to make America their new home.
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1 month ago | 
irishecho.com | Ray O'Hanlon |Jay Mwamba |Daniel Neely |Geoffrey Cobb
Ironically, the artist who best captured the subtle and ephemeral beauty of the West of Ireland was an outsider. Belfast-born Paul Henry painted canvases that are regarded as the best canvases ever painted of the region. No artist influenced Irish and international perceptions of rural traditional life and the landscape more than he did. Earlier artists had painted Irish landscapes, but these scenes looked like paintings in England or France.
