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Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Owner(s) | Belfast Media Group |
Founded | 1928 |
Language | English |
City | New York City |
Country | United States |
Website | irishecho |
The Irish Echo is a weekly Irish-American newspaper based in Manhattan. [1]
Founded in 1928, it bills itself as "the USA's most widely read Irish-American newspaper", with a circulation of about 60,000 and a readership of about 100,000. The newspaper is printed in both the United States and Ireland and has "newsstand presence in all major American and Irish cities".[ citation needed ] Irish writers John B. Keane, Brian Friel, and Tom Caulfield all contributed to the paper in the past.[ citation needed ] In 2007, Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, Irish businessman and publisher of the Andersonstown News , purchased the paper.
Events associated with The Irish Echo include: