Larry Kirwan

2 days ago | irishecho.com | Larry Kirwan |Margaret Johnson |Sean Creedon

Editor: It is popular to use a 100-day cycle to report progress or measure change particularly in government. More than one hundred days have now passed since St. Patrick’s Day in America. Surely it is time to report progress on what is purported to be the success of the U.S.-brokered peace treaty, the Good Friday Agreement. Americans are bereft of any significant GFA news or commentary.

2 days ago | irishecho.com | Margaret Johnson |Sean Creedon |Larry Kirwan

Stefan Lutak was Ukrainian. He owned the Holiday Cocktail Lounge on St. Mark’s Place. Despite its name it was a beer-and-shot joint I stumbled into by chance after settling in the East Village. The clientele was Ukrainian and didn’t care for strangers. A disapproving silence would attend my entry but after a while they got used to me. I liked the anonymity of the place, and the prices. Stefan told me he had played pro soccer in West Germany.

1 month ago | irishecho.com | Larry Kirwan |Sean Creedon

The Republic of Ireland national women’s team are back in action this weekend and they will need maximum points from their two final group games in the Nations League, away to Turkey tomorrow night and against Slovenia in Cork on Tuesday next, to qualify for the top 16 European nations in next year’s World Cup qualifiers. Manager Carla Ward has named soon to be retired Louise Quinn in the Irish squad for both games.

1 month ago | irishecho.com | Cal Dillon |Anthony Neeson |Larry Kirwan

What a blast to move to New York from Wexford town - the size, the bustle, and the sheer moxie of the city, but also the originality and diversity of the music. You could see and hear something different every night, often brilliant, usually thought-provoking. Pierce Turner and I went out every night. The streets were our oyster. All you needed was the price of a tallboy and a stoop to perch on. New York provided the rest.

1 month ago | irishecho.com | Larry Kirwan |Jay Mwamba

Donal Ward’s Bua Boxing Gym, the first Irish-owned gym in New York since the McLaughlin brothers’ Irish Ropes closed down in Far Rockaway 19 years ago, is celebrating a notable accomplishment almost a year and a half after its opening. Dundalk native Timmy Egan’s recent Madison Square Garden victory over Yonali Sanchez in MSG Boxing’s Ring Masters 165-pound novice final produced Bua’s first amateur champion – and one trained by Ward himself.