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1 week ago | 
irishecho.com | Gerry Adams |Anthony Neeson |Ray O'Hanlon |P.J. Cunningham
Tyrone 2-17; Donegal 0-20
One by one, predicted early season favorites to win Sam Maguire are being taken down.
It was Galway who lost that air of invincibility the previous week against Dublin and, on Saturday, Tyrone claimed the prize scalp of the previously ebullient Donegal in their own backyard of MacCumhaill Park, Ballybofey - something that had never previously happened in the Jim McGuinness eras.
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1 week ago | 
irishecho.com | Gerry Adams |Anthony Neeson |Ray O'Hanlon
Pic of Day: Kildare-based Visual Artist Eamonn Farrell received The McCann Fitzgerald Portraiture Award for his art image "I Am Human!" at a ceremony in Dublin for the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition 2025. The image was taken on March 3, 2024 at the back of the International Protection Agency Office on Lower Mount Street, Dublin where over a hundred tents were pitched by refugees from a variety of countries and for whom the government had been unable to find accommodation.
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1 week ago | 
irishecho.com | Gerry Adams |Anthony Neeson |Ray O'Hanlon |Daniel Neely
A couple weeks back, I led an event at the Irish American Heritage Museum in Albany called “An All Ireland Affair: The Music of the Famous Flanagan Brothers.” Joined by Diarmuid Ó Meachair (melodeon) and Brendan Dolan (piano), the evening combined an in-depth lecture about the history of the Flanagan’s recordings with a live performance of their music.
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1 week ago | 
irishecho.com | Anthony Neeson |Ray O'Hanlon |Gerry Adams
WHEN I was younger I had a stammer. I don’t know what age I was. Somewhere between seven and ten perhaps. A youngster! I grew out of my speech impediment and I have very little recollection of my stammering phase but I was reminded of it when I was on the phone to a friend in Ard Oifig in Dublin last week. . For no apparent reason she told me that she sometimes has a stammer when she is on the phone.
“It isn’t obvious,” I told her.
And it wasn’t.
“Its a nervous thing,” she went on.
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2 weeks ago | 
irishecho.com | Anthony Neeson |Ray O'Hanlon |Gerry Adams
IN a historic vote in the Assembly last week, members overwhelmingly passed by 46 votes to 25 a motion calling on the Irish government to implement the recommendation of the 2013 Constitutional Convention on the Constitution to extend “the right to vote in elections for President of Ireland to all Irish citizens on the island of Ireland.” The reality of course is that successive Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael governments have deliberately refused to implement this recommendation despite having 12...
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3 weeks ago | 
irishecho.com | Ray O'Hanlon |Sean Creedon |Anthony Neeson
A full house raised glasses high to standout community ambassadors at the second annual Heroes of Irish America gala in Buffalo, NY last night.
Among guests of honor at the celebration of the cream of Irish America were Belfast Lord Mayor Micky Murray, Congressman Tim Kennedy, Buffalo Mayor Chris Scanlon and newly-minted Honorary Consul General of Ireland in Buffalo, Kathleen Higgins Greeley.
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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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3 weeks ago | 
irishecho.com | Ray O'Hanlon |Peter J. McDermott
On a quiet week, 60 hours.
That’s one estimate of the time Conor Hawkins spends at the five-star Curtiss Hotel, the Banshee pub and the Sky Bar in Buffalo, N.Y.
“If nothing goes wrong,” he said, by way of qualification. In any case, he added, “it’s a 24-7 operation.”
And so, when Hawkins is having a “quiet pint” in the Banshee, of which he is co-owner, watching GAA or soccer or rugby on his day off, he’s available to take questions, often lots of them, from staff and customers.
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3 weeks ago | 
irishecho.com | Ray O'Hanlon |P.J. Cunningham
For several years now the Great Hunger Museum, still mostly housed at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, has been the subject of a tussle between the new custodians, the Gaelic American Club of Fairfield, and a group called Ireland's Great Hunger Bord.
Enter a third party, or at least a development in the form of a petition seeking the return of the museum to its starting point at Quinnipiac.
The petition, on Change.org, was started by a student named Alan McNeely.
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3 weeks ago | 
irishecho.com | Ray O'Hanlon |P.J. Cunningham |Maura Mulligan
Book on the Life of Margaret Heckler News May 14, 2025 by Irish Echo Staff Pic of Day: A gathering to greet a new book, ”A Woman of Firsts: Margaret Heckler, Political Trailblazer," was hosted by Irish Ambassador to the U.S. Geraldine Byrne Nason. The book is authored by Kimberly Heckler, daughter-in-law of the late Margaret Heckler, U.S. ambassador to Ireland during the Reagan administration. It is available on Amazon. Pictured is Ambassador Byrne Nason with Kimberly Heckler.
