Antonee Robinson plays for Fulham and the U.S. national team. [Inpho/Presseye/Philip Magowan] The English Premier League is back and with it the chance for me to answer the eternal question, “which club do you support?” My answer tends to perplex…

“It's in our DNA, we’re made for being kickers.” That was 19-year-old Andy Quinn’s straightforward explanation for the recent influx of young Irishmen trading in dreams of Croke Park and Aviva Stadium for a chance at the bright lights - and potential…

The town of Westfield, and indeed the entire region of western Massachusetts, has long been known for its connection to Ireland, so perhaps it was only natural for the President of Westfield State University Linda Thompson to pay the country a visit.…

For 260 consecutive years the Irish and Irish-Americans of New York, and indeed the world over, have puffed out their collective chest out and marched en masse up Fifth Avenue in an annual celebration of Irish heritage and culture. Recently, the…

Back in the mid-1990s, Michael Flannery was instrumental in smoothing the way for Northern Ireland companies to set up in New York City through his involvement with the Friends of Belfast organization. Now, as efforts to bring jobs to the North of…

Sitting in the sun drenched bleachers at the Whippany, N.J., training center of her club soccer team New Jersey/New York Gotham FC, the Havertown, Pa.-born and raised soccer star Sinead Farrelly spoke with the Irish Echo about her incredible comeback…

So, I’ve been watching the Rugby World Cup and I am cheering hard for Ireland. And I am enjoying it. The kicking of Johnny Sexton, the powerful running from Bundee Aki, the elusiveness of Mack Hansen, the overall excellence of Hugo Keenan, the head…

Belfast born entrepreneur and retired school teacher Charlie Lord wants to give American kids the opportunity to receive their college education in Ireland. Lord is pursuing that goal as a member of a subcommittee operating out of the The Irish…

"LIFE IS ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING FOR OTHERS": Des Lyons “I really have a love for the law, I have a passion for it, and passion for the work. And it's something that really interests me.” 56-year-old Desmond Lyons has been pursuing that love and…

Big players step up at big moments and for an all American-born, New York Gaelic football team trying to claim the Junior Football All Ireland Championship at Dublin’s iconic Croke Park, the third minute of added time with scores level is about as…

Just about a year ago things were going pretty well professionally for Kevin McCabe Jr. Since 2012 the Queens native had been working his way up the ladder with the Battery Park City Authority and was doing interesting and important work as the…

If you have passed through Dublin Airport in recent years there is a good chance you were greeted by enormous banners enticing you to attend an American college football game, often featuring the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame. Notre Dame has played…

Pádraig Smith made the journey from the banks of the River Boyne, in County Meath, to the Mile High city of Denver, Colorado in 2015, first as the Sporting Director of the city’s Major League Soccer (MLS) club, the Colorado Rapids, before earning a…

John Wilkins They met “40 something” years ago,” Rigoerto Torres told me, speaking of himself and his partner in art John Ahearn, while we chatted one recent afternoon surrounded by the legacy of the pair's work, Swagger and Tenderness: The South…

Attorney, lobbyist, political aide to Chuck Schumer, former political candidate, author, adjunct faculty member at his alma mater Canisius College, husband, father. Jack O’Donnnell’s resume makes for impressive reading, especially when you consider…

After 15 years working in New York to bring investment to Northern Ireland, Andrea Haughian stepped up to the top job with Invest Northern Ireland last November allowing the Lurgan, Co. Armagh native to continue in her mission to encourage…

After years spent in the background of politics, both local and national, when Julie Roche decided to step forward and run for City Council in her hometown of Hayward City, California, she proudly waved the green, white, and orange of her parents…

Put it down to a New York - centric big city bias but when I think of the Irish diaspora my mind automatically drifts to Hell’s Kitchen, the Marble Hill/Kingsbridge neighborhoods of my youth, Woodside, Queens, Woodlawn in the 80s and McLean Avenue of…

We live in polarizing times. Politicians that were once considered colleagues with differing viewpoints now appear to be deadly enemies. Compromise has come to be seen as a sign of weakness, reaching across the aisle a pie in the sky dream. Long gone…

It is no secret that the past couple of Covid years, coupled with the cost-of-living crisis, have taken a toll on countless businesses across the United States but now help, in the shape of Irish-American businessman Brian Moran, is at hand. Moran is…