Macbride Principles News Today

Addressing the annual New York-New Belfast conference last week, New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli revealed that Empire State public service ...

New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has written to the CEO's of a number of major U.S. corporations asking them what their companies have done ...

IN JANUARY 1994, the armed conflict in the Six Counties was at a critical stage. The previous year had seen the deaths of 84 people in the war and, while there was some political movement, it was b...

John Dearie, who has set his extraordinary stamp on Irish history by virtue of his political actions in America, is the Irish Echo's Irish American...

A community always likes to honor its own. Sometimes the honor is deserved for work close to home. Sometimes the honor is deserved for work that re...

The eyes of the global community are on efforts to build the peace in the North of Ireland, the tenth annual Belfast International Homecoming has h...

The eyes of the global community are on efforts to build the peace in the North, the tenth annual Belfast International Homecoming has heard.

A Stormont department paid US lobbyists the equivalent of more than $2,000 a day to oppose Irish-American activists pushing the MacBride Principles, declassified government files show.

Speaking to RTE News reporter, Frank Wall, on Feb 26, 1962, Ted Kennedy spoke about his visit to his ancestral home of County Wexford and his pleasure in visiting Ireland. 

A WEST Belfast native known for his outstanding trade union work in the USA has been given a lifetime membership of Áras Uí Chonghaile/James Connolly Visitor Centre.