Happy St Patrick’s Day! As you wait for your pint to settle, here are some fun facts about Ireland’s greatest invention (sorry Bono), and the drinking game that’s gone global.

Stars including Gwen Stefani, Barack Obama, and Robert De Niro all have Irish ancestors.

While there is a range of pubs in Dublin famed for having good Guinness, the capital is low down on the list in terms of Guinness hot spots in Ireland.

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Irish actor Michael Fassbender has admitted he was 'panicking' during a lie detector scene in new spy thriller Black Bag.

Kilgubbin won’t be found on modern-day maps of Chicago, but there once was a place known by that name — a settlement of Irish immigrants on the city’s North Side. In the 1850s and 1860s, Kilgubbin was ...

Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute Jessie Hoffman. Here's a look at who else is on death row in the state.

With St. Patrick’s Day falling on Monday this year (and during Lent every year), some of the more boisterous forms of ...

Seven days out is your guide to entertainment events, concerts, festivals and activities in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.

A fighter? “I am a peaceful Irishman. That little, feisty Notre Dame mascot? Ignore him. He’ll go bug someone else.” ...

By 1972, Cahalane was also one of the Irish Republican Army’s most successful international gunrunners, ferrying rifles and bullets from Philadelphia and its suburbs to arm guerilla fighters in ...